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CrowdStrike says one person with an AI agent may have attacked nine South Korean banks
Attacks on at least nine South Korean banks may trace to a 26-year-old in Guangdong using an open-source penetration tool and AI-written…
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Three sacked OpenAI researchers have published an open letter saying they were fired for prioritising safety
Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak and Jasmine Wang say they were let go for raising safety concerns. OpenAI says its investigation found a…
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Anthropic will now cut off users who are "cruel" to Claude — and the argument it started is about us, not the model
Claude can now end conversations with users showing "sustained and needless" abuse. Critics say treating a statistical model as something…
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OpenAI published how much teenagers use ChatGPT. Researchers tested whether its safety net fires. Those are not the same question
OpenAI says average teen use is under 15 minutes a day and mostly schoolwork. Common Sense Media tested the guardrails and found parental…
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OpenAI will hide an invisible watermark in text ChatGPT writes — for EU users first, and the reason is a law, not a conscience
ChatGPT and Codex output will carry a statistical signature invisible to a reader but detectable by OpenAI. It is being built to satisfy…
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Twenty-seven countries are meeting in Jakarta to write Asia’s AI rules — and Bangladesh has a seat most people here have never heard of
The ASOCIO Digital and AI Summit opened in Jakarta with 27 of 31 member countries. Regional bodies like this decide the standards…
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A school has hired a teacher whose whole job is teaching pupils not to trust AI — and the syllabus is the interesting part
Mearns Castle High School appointed a principal teacher of AI literacy. The curriculum is deepfakes, hallucinations, anthropomorphisation…
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The Pentagon banned Anthropic in February and only stopped using it this week — the seven-month gap is the story
Claude was embedded in Maven, the Pentagon’s main intelligence platform. A ban took eight months to execute because an integrated model is…
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Trump’s renamed AI now has a body to run it — led by the national intelligence director, reporting to the White House
A "Super Intelligence Force" under intelligence director Jay Clayton will coordinate Washington’s engagement with AI firms. Who sits on it…
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Fans are training their algorithms to hide their favourite artists so a concert can still surprise them
Films get spoiler warnings; tours do not. One fan spends weeks tapping “not interested” on videos of artists she loves. Another says she…
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Rescues of 18 to 24-year-olds in the mountains nearly doubled in five years. Volunteers call the pressure unsustainable
Mountain Rescue England and Wales recorded 314 incidents involving 18 to 24-year-olds in 2024, up 89 per cent from 2019. Llanberis is on…
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Paramount and Warner Bros merge on Tuesday. The combined company will be called Skydance
David Ellison says the name of his own production company will sit above both studios so neither brand is diminished. The merger takes…