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Workday faces claims its AI screened out disabled and older job applicants
Workday must face claims that its popular AI-powered human resources software weeded out job applicants at other companies in ways that violated California law and a federal ban on discrimination against workers with disabilities, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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Working in these professions? AI may be coming for your job, Dutch agency warns
Due to evolving technology, the labor market is constantly changing. As a result, job opportunities are changing as well. Tasks such as writing and translating are increasingly being taken over by artificial intelligence (AI).
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Trump signs quantum order as US races to secure future encryption
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to overhaul the National Quantum Strategy – a directive to “supercharge” US quantum innovation and strengthen efforts to protect future encryption from emerging cyber threats.
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BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart sued for allegedly using AI to boost California gas prices
California drivers sue BP, Walmart, 7-Eleven and other gas station operators, accusing them of using an AI-powered pricing tool to coordinate higher gasoline prices and overcharge consumers.
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UK cop accused of using AI to cook up evidence sparks rape conviction review
Following last week’s allegations that a detective used AI to draft criminal justice documents, prosecutors are now reviewing several rape convictions linked to cases he’s worked on.
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Nadella scoffs at AI giants as Microsoft may host China’s DeepSeek
Having long played the role of elder statesman in the AI race, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has had enough, it seems. In a new interview, he offers blistering criticism of a small group of companies that have dominated the often gloomy conversation.
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Microsoft researcher uses "Age of Empires" goats to make a point about AI consciousness
A Microsoft researcher has built a functioning neural network inside Age of Empires II using digital goats to prove that AI can run on anything. The absurdist experiment highlights how easily human-like chat interfaces trick users into believing AI is truly sentient.
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Cloudflare gives AI agents temporary accounts to deploy websites without human logins
As AI agents enter every corner of internet infrastructure, global cloud computing services provider Cloudflare has launched temporary accounts, giving agents more independence when launching web projects.
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Developers giving attackers a free ride after hundreds of iPhone AI apps found exposing credentials
Just days after Google tightened restrictions on Gemini API keys to prevent unauthorized AI usage, researchers have found hundreds of iPhone AI apps exposing the digital credentials used to access AI services such as OpenAI and Gemini.
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This tiny European country is pioneering digital ID for AI agents
Estonia is set to become the first country in the world to issue identification codes to AI agents, in an effort to establish stronger industry standards.
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Britain's cyber agency warns AI-written code could create security disasters if left unchecked
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns the shift from manual coding to AI-generated software could bring serious hidden risks if teams trust AI output without proper scrutiny. The agency says AI-generated code can introduce security flaws and create messy, hard-to-audit systems unless developers stay firmly in control.
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AI chip maker SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company for first time since 2000
SK Hynix on Monday overtook Samsung Electronics to become South Korea's most valuable listed company, marking a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a chipmaker that two decades ago nearly collapsed under debt.
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Shark Tank investor says firms now turn to AI before hiring consultants
Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary says companies he backs turn to AI for work that was once outsourced to consultants.
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Anthropic poaches Nobel Prize-winning scientist from Google DeepMind
Nobel Prize winner and Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper is leaving the company to join Anthropic, a major AI rival that is also backed by Google.
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Norway imposes near ban on AI tools for elementary school kids
Norway is imposing a near-total ban on the use of generative AI by elementary school pupils while restricting its usage among older students.
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You can't patch a jailbreak: security experts say US government is asking Anthropic for the impossible
The White House wants Anthropic to fix jailbreak flaws in its newly released Fable 5 before it can return to the market, according to reports. However, security experts argue jailbreaks can’t be “patched” like a bug in a discrete piece of code.
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Amazon, H&M and Ikea want exemption from EU rules on labelling AI-generated ads
Eurocommerce, the European retail association whose members include Amazon, H&M, Inditex, and Ikea, is asking EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt AI-generated advertisements from the bloc's new regulation requiring disclosure of AI use.
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Midjourney announces AI spas and full-body imaging chambers straight out of a sci-fi movie
Midjourney is pivoting from free text-to-image models to AI (artificial intelligence) spas, releasing a full-body scanner that looks like it came straight out of a Sci-Fi movie.
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Apple fans brace for higher prices as AI sends chip costs soaring, says Cook
Apple customers may soon have to dig a bit deeper into their wallets after CEO Tim Cook warned that rising costs for memory and storage chips are becoming too much for the company to absorb.
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Jeff Bezos says AI will create labor shortages, not replace human workers
Jeff Bezos says fears of AI replacing humans are overblown. Speaking in Paris, at the VivaTech technology conference on Wednesday, the Amazon founder argued AI will create labor shortages, not mass unemployment.
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