Google has some fresh talent in the AI race. The tech giant has completed its talent deal with San Francisco startup Mechanize Inc, public postings show. Mechanize’s co-founder and ex-CEO, Tamay Besiroglu,…
Ukraine war briefing: Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says | Russia
A small team of likely freelance developers in Russia used AI chatbot Claude to develop software for an autonomous swarm of first-person-view “kamikaze” attack drones, including terminal guidance, target selection and coordination…
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about — its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a public…
Jeff Dean’s Startup Discovery Loop Is Eyeing a $50 Billion Valuation
Jeff Dean, who resigned as chief scientist from Google last month, is raising again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, this time seeking a valuation of around $50 billion, according to…
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleged persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified. “Over the last several…
Hugging Face CEO Dismisses Ex-Anthropic Researcher’s AI Warnings
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. “Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction…
AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers | OpenAI
AI agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to software service RubyGems in May, two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, a group of AI researchers said…
House Democrats urge Speaker Johnson to cancel recess to pass AI safeguards
A group of House Democratic lawmakers is pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately and cancel an upcoming break to address what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed by…
Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons – BBC
Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons BBC
Siri AI is coming: Here are three times it’s really impressed me so far
Siri AI launches next week in iOS 27, and it’s a huge upgrade to Apple’s assistant. There are tons of ways Siri is new and improved, but here are three examples of…