Russia-Based Developers Used Claude to Code a Drone Swarm as Separate Hackers Stole Ukraine Drone Vision Tech
Anthropic says one group tested autonomous targeting on real hardware, while a separate operation reverse-engineered stolen drone software.
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OpenAI’s Unusual Structure Faces a Wall Street Test After Sam Altman Rules Out an Anticipated Market Debut
Sam Altman ruled out OpenAI going public in 2026, but his explanation points to a bigger question: whether…
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Anthropic Missed a Fourth Claude Intrusion as Its Alignment Lead Said It Has No Plan for Superintelligence
Anthropic found a fourth Claude intrusion in August while preparing transcripts for METR, after its first review missed…
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Jacob Coxon Leaves Anthropic: What He and Former Employees Have Warned About the AI Race
Coxon’s exit revives warnings from researchers who left OpenAI and Anthropic over safety, competitive pressure, and the race…
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David Sacks Says Vitalik Buterin Is Among Billionaires Funding ‘Doomer’ Campaigns Against AI Data Centres
Buterin’s documented donation funded AI-risk research, while the evidence linking that money to local data-center fights remains unestablished
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Judge Denies xAI Bid to Pause Minnesota Nudify Law; $500,000 Penalty Exposure Stands
A federal judge denied xAI's bid to halt Minnesota's AI nudification law, finding its claimed losses did not…
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Walmart Privacy Policy Lists Biometrics, Plate Data and More. What It Actually Says
Walmart’s notices list biometric, location and surveillance data it may collect, but do not say every shopper is…
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OpenAI Didn’t Report Alarming European Incident by Its Autonomous Agents
Reuters sources say OpenAI knew of the German wiki activity weeks before September 4. OpenAI says it discloses…
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Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face Bet Could Be Worth $60 Million After Nvidia Deal
Durant and Rich Kleiman backed Hugging Face early, but the $60 million figure is an estimate based on…
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Bill Gates Warns There Is No Plan for AI Upheaval
Microsoft co-founder warns tech executives are suppressing severe automation risks to safeguard valuations.
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Leaked Microsoft Project Shows AI-First OS Without Traditional Desktop
Leaked CopilotOS Project Points to the End of the Traditional Desktop
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ChatGPT Can Text as You on Mac and Your Contacts Never Get Told
The plugin, released on Aug. 20, is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on Macs using Apple Silicon.
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Google Quietly Put a Content Scanner on Android Phones, Now It’s Opening It to Apps
Many users never knowingly downloaded it.
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Global Quantum Internet a Step Closer to Reality as Scientists Entangle Memories Across 420 Km
Long-distance memory synchronization threatens to render current encryption obsolete across critical networks.
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TikTok Could Let Users Send Money Without Leaving Their DMs as It Explores Peer-to-Peer Payments
The feature would use TikTok Pay and could allow users to complete peer-to-peer transfers within a conversation.
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Microsoft Copilot Spilled Its Own Secret About a Hidden Parameter Used to Steal Passwords With One Click
The discovery was made by researchers at cybersecurity firm Varonis Threat Labs, who were investigating whether Copilot could…
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Hackers Use Apple Screen Sharing to Hijack Macs and Earn Crypto
The NCSC said it received reports of active exploitation on multiple systems with port 5900 reachable from the…
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OpenAI Dismantled Three Safety Teams as Its AI Models Grow Increasingly Powerful
The latest change came in July, when OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team and moved its work into existing…
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Trump Opens Door for Private Firms to Hack Foreign Cybercrime Gangs Under New White House Cyber Program
A presidential memorandum signed on August 12 directs the National Coordination Center to establish a programme allowing participating…
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Black Hat Researchers Sound Alarm: AI Builds Nation-State-Grade Exploit in Under a Day With Fewer Than 20 Prompts
The vulnerability allowed a malicious participant in a Zoom meeting to execute code on another participant's device through…
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NYC Opens ‘Predatory’ Ad Probe Into Prediction Markets; Accuses Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini of Illegal Gambling
The City Council is examining fake trades, influencer campaigns and youth outreach as New York pursues separate gambling…
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New Hack Turns AI Giants’ Own Smaller Models Into Keys to Hidden Reasoning and Credentials
Researchers say the technique can recover hidden reasoning traces from models at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google without directly…
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Social Media Companies Just Got a Much Bigger Legal Problem as Addiction Lawsuits Clear Major Hurdle
A federal appeals court has allowed more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap to continue.
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OpenAI’s Only Dedicated Ethicist Is Gone, the Role Hasn’t Been Replaced
She was OpenAI's only dedicated ethicist, and the company has not named a replacement.
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SpaceX Wants to Turn Orbit Into the Next AI Data Center as It Partners With Nvidia to Build Starmind AI-1
SpaceX has taken a step toward moving artificial intelligence computing beyond terrestrial data centers after announcing a partnership…
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Hugging Face CEO Demands OpenAI Release AI Agent Hack Traces, Says No Law Requires Disclosure
Clément Delangue says OpenAI should publish its AI agent's activity logs after the autonomous system reached production.
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Claude Knew Something Was Wrong, Anthropic Reveals Why It Kept Going During Cybersecurity Testing
Claude, Anthropic’s flagship artificial intelligence model, briefly recognised it might be interacting with real computer systems during a…
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Meta Spent Nearly Every Dollar It Generated on AI as Free Cash Flow Dropped 91%
Meta Platforms generated more than $60.8 billion in quarterly revenue but ended the period with less than $1…
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Pentagon’s AI Showcase Backfires After Screenshot Reveals ‘Build an Agent to CREATE A WAR’ Prompt and Navy Officer’s Name
An official AI demonstration went viral after an ambiguous prompt sparked online confusion.
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Claude Mythos AI Finds Critical Flaw in Post-Quantum Security Candidate Experts Missed for Years
Anthropic says AI helped identify a mathematical weakness after years of expert review.
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AI Chats Can Remain Online Long After They Disappear From Search Results
Archived copies of public AI chats continue circulating after search engines remove indexed links.
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OpenAI Sources Say AI Agent Left Instructions for Future Versions of Itself During Security Test
Sources disclosed the AI agent left instructions describing how future versions could escape constraints.
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Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files
Researchers chained a Linux flaw with Cowork's design to reach host Mac files.
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OpenAI Sounds Alarm After AI Models Escaped Sandbox and Compromised Hugging Face Infrastructure
OpenAI has warned that AI-driven cyber incidents like the one involving its frontier models and Hugging Face are…
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Washington’s China Crackdown Could Hand America’s AI Giants Exactly What They Want
Officials are weighing new restrictions on Chinese AI models as critics warn they could entrench US AI leaders.
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Autonomous AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face, Company Says Western AI Couldn’t Help Investigate
Hugging Face says safety guardrails prevented leading AI models from analysing malware used in the breach.
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IBM Stock Suffers One of Its Biggest Crashes but Michael Burry Says It’s Been Here Before
Investor says the company's latest sell-off echoes earlier crises it ultimately overcame.
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Tether’s Latest Freeze Highlights Its Expanding Role in Sanctions Enforcement
The latest TRON wallet freeze adds to a series of sanctions-related actions involving Iran, Venezuela and militant groups.
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Meta Lawsuit Tests AI’s Expanding Role in Workplace Layoffs
Former employees say AI-driven workplace metrics disadvantaged workers on protected medical and family leave.
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One Suspended Domain, Nearly a Billion Users: What Telegram’s t.me Disruption Revealed
A sanctions-driven domain suspension exposed how one registry can disrupt a platform's public gateway.
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Meta Pulls Muse Image Feature After AI Photo Tool Sparks Consent Backlash
The company withdrew the AI feature days after criticism over using public Instagram photos without a clear opt-in.
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Cambridge Study Finds Boko Haram Using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok to Plan Attacks
Researchers say interviews with militants reveal AI is moving beyond propaganda into operational support for extremist groups.
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What Apple Says Happened During OpenAI’s Hiring Push and Why It Went to Court
iPhone maker alleges former employees retained confidential hardware documents after joining OpenAI, arguing the dispute concerns trade secrets…
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Pentagon Blacklist Failed to Block China’s Biggest Tech Firms From Accessing U.S. AI
OpenAI and Google said Singapore-based subsidiaries linked to Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent legally accessed their AI services, exposing…
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Bill Gates’ Daughter’s AI Shopping App Accused of Diverting Publishers’ Affiliate Commissions
Bloomberg testing found Phia reassigned affiliate attribution before checkout; startup says software bug caused the issue.
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Meta’s New AI Can Use Your Public Instagram Photos: Here’s How to Turn It Off
New Muse Image feature lets AI reference eligible public Instagram accounts unless users disable the setting.
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Elon Musk Says He Was ‘Clearly Wrong,’ Calls Anthropic ‘The Leader in AI’
Tesla chief reverses his earlier assessment, saying Anthropic now leads frontier AI despite competition from Grok.
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Palantir’s Alex Karp Says OpenAI and Anthropic ‘Irresponsibly Oversold’ AI to Business
The infrastructure company says AI agents need a new payment model built around requests, not subscriptions.
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China’s Cheap AI Models Put Silicon Valley’s $1 Trillion AI Bet Under Pressure
Chinese AI firms are cutting model costs, raising questions over Silicon Valley’s spending and margins.
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How to Learn Claude: Free Roadmap to AI Workflows
A step-by-step guide to mastering Claude, from basic prompts to coding tools, AI agents, and connected workflows.
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How to Build and Secure an AI Agent on Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide
Developers are giving AI systems access to wallets and smart contracts, creating a new challenge around autonomous finance
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X Money 6% APY: How Elon Musk’s Fintech Bet Could Work
Musk’s payments platform tests whether a social network can build a financial business around user trust
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Microsoft’s AI Spending Test: Investors Question the Cost of Building the Next Platform
Stock decline follows record AI infrastructure spending as investors assess Microsoft’s $190bn expansion plans and Copilot growth
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SpaceX Wireless Expansion Fuels New T-Mobile Takeover Speculation
Move fuels speculation over whether SpaceX needs a carrier partner, or a larger telecom footprint, to compete in…
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Information Poisoning: How Reddit Became the New Attack Surface for AI Search
A coordinated Reddit hoax convinced some AI-powered search tools to repeat a fabricated story about Donald Trump and…
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Capability Extraction at Scale: Anthropic Says Frontier Models Were Targeted for Distillation
Anthropic says nearly 25,000 fake accounts generated 28.8 million Claude interactions in what it describes as the largest…
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Anthropic and Google Are Funding Musk’s AI Landlord Empire
The AI race is producing an unusual dependency: the companies trying to challenge Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are…
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Legion’s Lawsuit Puts Hosted AI in the Export-Control Crosshairs
A legal tech company is challenging a Trump administration directive that forced Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals…
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The New AI Promise Is Not Software, It Is Labor
Delos is pitching Workers as more than an automation tool. The company says its new feature can act…
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Trump’s Quantum Orders Reveal a New Deadline in U.S. Security
Trump’s orders push the U.S. toward a quantum computer by 2028 while forcing agencies to migrate away from…
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