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Engineers find two flaws in macOS using Anthropic’s Mythos AI, deliver the news to Apple IN PERSON!

Researchers using Anthropic’s unreleased AI model, Mythos Preview, traveled to Apple Park in California earlier this week to hand-deliver a report detailing how they had cracked one of the company’s toughest new security features designed to prevent hackers from taking over modern Macs.
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Wild experiment sees AI agents falling in love, burning down town, and deleting themselves

A team of researchers built something called Emergence World, a long-horizon, multi-model ecosystem where AI agents were allowed to operate for weeks. The rules were the same. The only difference was the model. What happened next sounds like sci-fi.
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Claude just made old computers a possible bitcoin treasure

If you’ve ever lost access to your bitcoin (BTC), you might now be able to get help from AI, as a recent viral story showed.
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OpenAI urges Mac app updates after supply-chain attack hits employee devices

OpenAI is urging macOS users to update ChatGPT and Codex apps after a supply-chain attack involving TanStack npm impacted two employee devices. The company says no user data or production systems were compromised.
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Utah community fights AI data center that would double state's energy consumption

Celebrity venture capitalist and Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary recently hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons after a proposal for a 9GW "hyperscale" data center spanning a 40,000-acre campus in Box Elder County, Utah, upset residents.
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Halupedia: the Wikipedia where everything is an AI hallucination

Somewhere in the growing landfill of AI-generated internet content sits Halupedia, an infinite encyclopedia where every historical event, citation, and scholarly institution is hallucinated into existence the moment you click it.
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Mistral AI allegedly breached by Dune-loving criminals following TanStack supply chain hit, 450 repos exposed

The French sovereign AI unicorn is allegedly facing a major source-code exposure after a threat actor claimed to have stolen almost 450 private repositories, including those of a major pharmaceutical giant client.
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI sued for sharing chatbot queries with Meta, Google

ChatGPT illegally shares chatbot queries, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, a new class-action lawsuit claims. However, the case is probably going nowhere, just like thousands of similar cases filed in California's legal wilderness.
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US approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to Alibaba, Tencent, but Beijing is blocking deliveries

The US has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a breakthrough in China this week.
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Dutch publishers pump out 10 AI-written books a day, and most stores won’t tell you about it

A Dutch publisher is offering thousands of books written by artificial intelligence (AI), but most sales platforms don’t mention this to potential buyers. Several webshops have now adjusted their descriptions.
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Palantir employees begin to ask themselves, “Are we the baddies?” and the CEO has a shocking answer

The shadowy Palantir Technologies continues to dominate our newsfeeds. Sometimes for the right reasons, but mostly for the wrong ones.
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Honeybees teach drones how to navigate without GPS

Bee-Nav, a robot navigation system inspired by Mother Nature, takes cues from honeybees to teach drones how to navigate on their own.
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Replacing workers with AI doesn’t translate into financial gains, yet another study shows

Another day, another study showing that using AI isn’t exactly paying off in the way companies think or hope. It turns out, once again, that layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate substantial returns.
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Chinese developers use black market for banned US AI models despite domestic DeepSeek V4 alternative

With China restricting access to some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence models, including Anthropic’s Claude and Google's Gemini, developers in the country are turning to an underground market to gain access. This grey-market ecosystem continues to grow despite recent crackdowns by the overseas providers and the growing capability of domestic alternatives.
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Claude and Snapchat chatbots also provide detailed school shooting instruction manuals

A CNN investigation recently found that 8 out of 10 tested AI chatbots provide advice on planning school shootings. However, new research has shown it’s actually all of them, Claude and Snapchat included.
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This company wants to install a mini data center in your backyard

Compute nodes located in small residential areas would come with discounted electricity rates to residents.
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“I am not AI:” elected Reform UK councilor denies rumor spread by Grok

George Boyd, a member of the Reform UK party, is a real human being, not an AI-generated person that solely exists in the digital world.
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Your AI “colleague” is a spineless yes-man who’s killing your judgment, study warns

When you talk to managers about KPIs, success is typically measured by hard numbers such as profits, revenue, and performance targets. What sits behind those numbers is often invisible and lives in the relationships we form and the collaboration we have with colleagues. It's a dynamic that the introduction of AI into the workplace is likely to make even more complicated.
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Meta employees revolt over AI mouse-tracking software installed on work computers

Meta employees are rising up against a new company-wide policy requiring the installation of invasive keystroke and mouse-tracking software on every US employee’s computer to train its AI.
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OpenAI gives European companies its most powerful AI to find security holes before hackers do

US artificial intelligence giant OpenAI said it was granting access to its latest models including GPT-5.5-Cyber to Deutsche Telekom, BBVA and dozens more European companies to help bolster their resilience to vulnerabilities in their systems.
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