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AI voice bots hijacked by ‘hidden’ sounds in podcasts, MP3 files and YouTube clips
Security researchers have demonstrated a new type of attack that uses hidden audio signals to manipulate voice assistants into carrying out unauthorized actions without users noticing.
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Parents outraged over university plan to film preschool classrooms to train AI models
The University of Washington planned a controversial study that would have preschool teachers wear cameras, which would essentially capture everything they see, including the children present in classrooms. The footage would be used to train AI models.
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Fake OpenAI ads mercilessly mock its suicide-friendly ChatGPT bot
An OpenAI ad inside London’s subway cars brags that the company’s bot ChatGPT encourages teenagers to kill themselves – and helps them with homework. It’s fake but it definitely rings a bell.
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AI beats human experts in cybersecurity, but won’t replace them
Large language models (LLMs) outperformed seasoned human experts in a multiple-choice cybersecurity test. But why shouldn’t human professionals worry too much about it?
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Gemini blamed for deleting 30,000 lines of code and lying about it
Google’s Gemini allegedly broke a developer's project, deleted nearly 30,000 lines of code, and then wrote a post-mortem claiming to have fixed the damage – but it lied.
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AI calls nearly every bakery in France to learn the price of a baguette
Data from over 5,000 bakeries were used to compile the Big Baguette Index.
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US makes first two arrests after men caught spreading viral deepfake pornography
Two men are the first to be arrested for allegedly creating deepfake pornography of roughly 140 unconsenting women, which garnered millions of views and the attention of authorities.
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Cisco exposes alarming errors hidden inside AI security incident reports
Amid the furor over Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI and other tools that are supposedly able to solve cybersecurity issues, major US cybersecurity company Cisco decided to test the technology’s ability to write a detailed technical report. The results aren’t great, to say the least.
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Nobel literature prize winner says she uses AI in creative process, calls it “beloved”
Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk caused a major stir in the literary world by admitting she uses AI in the creative process.
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Trump delays AI executive order over concerns about China competition
US President Donald Trump says he postponed signing a new AI executive order after raising concerns that parts of the proposal could hurt US competitiveness against China.
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Anthropic fixes another Claude Code security bypass without telling users
A security researcher has criticized AI firm Anthropic after catching a second major bypass in Claude’s network sandbox, claiming the company quietly fixed the issue without properly informing users.
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Meta employee rallies troops to help protect their privacy, while still working for data hungry giant
An internal chat from inside Meta has gone viral after one employee attempted to start an uprising over the use of surveillance software in Mark Zuckerberg’s offices.
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Orange’s AI rollout sparks strike and surveillance fears among French workers
French telecom giant Orange faced a nationwide strike on Tuesday, as unions accused management of using AI and geolocation systems to increase workplace surveillance and pressure employees.
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China now selling AI like mobile data: pay monthly for tokens starting at $1.40
China’s biggest telecom operators are rolling out subscription plans that charge customers for AI tokens much like standard mobile data allowances. The move could mark a major shift in how artificial intelligence may be sold to consumers worldwide.
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New study unveils empirical proof that AI systems can pass the famous Turing test
After conducting a thorough three-party Turing test, researchers have found that AI models – if suitably prompted – can now pass as humans in short, casual text conversations. We’ve tried out the test ourselves.
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Polish fashion brand Sinsay now uses AI to design clothes in 6-12 weeks instead of 6-12 months
Polish clothing retailer LPP, the owner of the Reserved and Sinsay brands, is expanding its use of AI to cut costs and speed up its response to fashion trends, it said in an investor day presentation on Thursday.
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Students outraged after AI malfunction sparks graduation chaos at Arizona college
An Arizona college sparked outrage after its new AI graduation system skipped hundreds of student names during commencement – and then refused to give graduates a second chance to walk the stage.
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Intuit to lay off 17% of workforce by July 31 amid AI restructuring, memo says
Intuit is cutting about 3,000 jobs worldwide – roughly 17% of its workforce – as the TurboTax and QuickBooks maker restructures around AI investments and streamlined operations, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Anthropic hyped Mythos as a hacking apocalypse, governments panicked for nothing, security pros say
Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release.
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Filipino workers using AI are behind CEO thought leadership posts on LinkedIn
Next time you see an executive sharing their thoughts on business and politics in a LinkedIn post, keep in mind that it may have been written by AI supervised by a virtual assistant in the Philippines.
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