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Will AI replace marketing jobs? European marketers largely believe the answer is no. Yet many organizations have already reduced headcount or replaced employees with AI. The reality is more nuanced: AI is not simply replacing marketers — it is redesigning how marketing work gets done. As AI takes on more execution-oriented tasks, the value of human contribution shifts toward strategy, creativity, judgment, and leadership. The organizations that succeed will not be those that deploy the most AI t

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? The post Is Life Just Different? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Learn how OpenAI approaches government and national security partnerships, with principles for responsible AI use, democratic accountability, and public safety.

Introducing the kaleidoscopic minefield — more vectors, faster turns, and the threats we haven't named yet.

Europe keeps asking where its technology champions are. In Google Android, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) offered part of the answer: build a successful platform, and Brussels may spend the next decade treating its architecture as evidence. The CJEU’s final judgment in Google Android, handed down last week, will be celebrated ... Android and the Art of Regulatory Self-Harm The post Android and the Art of Regulatory Self-Harm appeared first on Truth on the Market .

Introduction New research from AI Now demonstrates a critical attack vector in popular AI agents, built by Anthropic and OpenAI, when used for defensive purposes that actually turn the agent against its user. Read the full blog post explaining the proof-of-concept exploit and a policy brief with key takeaways below. The post Double Agents: Defensive AI Agents Magnify Cyber Risks appeared first on AI Now Institute .

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Exploit Brief We are revealing a proof-of-concept exploit that enables remote code execution in Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI (with Claude Sonnet 4.6 & 5, Opus 4.8) and OpenAI’s Codex CLI (with GPT-5.5) when employed to defensively assess the security of an open-source or third-party library. Our attack only requires an out-of-the-box configuration of Claude Code […] The post Friendly Fire: Hijacking Defensive Cyber AI Agents for Remote Code Execution appeared first on AI Now Institute .

Topline Summary AI Now’s latest research demonstrates a critical attack vector on popular AI agents, built by Anthropic and OpenAI, when used for defensive purposes that actually turn the agent against its user. Attackers can use these models’ existing weaknesses to execute malicious code on a system deploying an AI agent when used for often-advertised […] The post Policy Brief: Friendly Fire appeared first on AI Now Institute .

The UK’s immigration and asylum bill has proposed restricting how the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is interpreted and applied in the UK to make it easier to deport migrants. For years, critics have argued that the ECHR undermines the UK’s border security by prohibiting deportations on the basis of Article 8, the right […]

Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ability to autonomously hack into systems and networks. The statement was more measured than some of the breathless headlines about it, and the advice they gave is pretty much the standard advice everyone gives—albeit with newfound urgency. Internet risks are nothing new, and cybera

Zewelanji is a final-year International Relations student at the University of Leicester, currently interning with the UK Nuclear Deterrence Network. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of ...

OpenAI Academy and the Walton Family Foundation are bringing hands-on AI Skills Jams to help K–12 educators build practical AI skills for the classroom.

In 2011, Marc Andreessen, a key figure in California’s venture capital scene, coined the phrase: “Software is eating the world.” The phrase describes the spread of software into everyday life and the displacement of physical business models. This process continues in an unexpectedly literal sense: AI companies purchase used books, scan them, and dispose of them to gather input for their models. The reason for this seemingly cumbersome method is the expectation that it will fall under the fair us

As AI-generated media flood our information ecosystems, detecting synthetic content has become an urgent regulatory challenge – in fact, not one challenge but many, as synthetic media breeds problems across a range of digital contexts, including deepfakes and disinformation, scamming, and content moderation. The EU's new "Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content" – the first concrete articulation of Article 50(2) AI Act, the EU's approach to AI-content detection – gives sensible

At the AI for Good Global Summit, the Canvas of the Future returned for the third year in a row. The competition invited creators, educators, technologists and artists from all disciplines to submit an original, high-resolution AI-powered or AI-enhanced digital image exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping education and work. The post From San José to Geneva: Canvas of the Future winner unveiled appeared first on AI for Good .

China introduced three new regulatory developments addressing AI ethics, AI agents and anthropomorphic AI, which reflect a regulatory shift from broad AI principles toward more detailed, operational ...

Andy Burnham is near-certain to succeed Keir Starmer as UK prime minister. He will inherit a world in which technological leadership increasingly shapes economic prosperity, military capability and ...

Lieutenant General John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, helped shape the Department of Defense's approach to artificial ...

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This blog post is part 1 of a 2-part series. The second part sets out recommendations for companies and policymakers. Six years ago—one month into a global pandemic—we argued that the automated moderation processes many platforms were rapidly adopting should be highly transparent, easily appealable, and temporary. We warned that "protocols adopted in times of crisis often persist when the crisis is over." That warning proved prescient. The use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to id

In the global race to build and dominate the AI industry, it can sure seem like the interests of ordinary people sit last on the agenda. It's just the opposite for EFF. While companies furiously jam AI tools into their veins and your eyeballs, EFF’s technologists, activists, and attorneys have been meticulously cutting through the hype to ensure AI can serve your privacy and free expression. Technology has leaned into a new era, and this summer you can help EFF fight for the people. JOIN EFF Ove

A recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights concerning a TikTok video published by a Georgian self-defined civil activist adds another layer to the Court’s increasingly messy Article 10 case law. The applicant repeatedly insulted public officials in crude and sexually explicit terms while broadcasting to a large online audience. Domestic courts imposed only a modest administrative fine, later reduced on appeal. The ECtHR did not find a violation of the applicant’s right to freedom of

Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is on the critical path for reasoning, response time and learning. CPUs are the processor which executes the work the AI model commands: the tool calling, code […]

Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse.

Google DeepMind’s Vivek Natarajan on porting AlphaGo’s self-play recipe into science and medicine, via the AI co-scientist and AMIE. From RAAIS 2026.

GENEVA, 7 July 2026 — The Youth Zone at the AI for Good Global Summit 2026 commences its program today with a robotics competition, a series of hands-on artificial intelligence seminars, and a policy discussion on the skills that classrooms should prioritise as AI becomes more ingrained in daily life. A continuum approach to AI literacy, rather than a single fixed curriculum, is reflected in the participation of children as young as six and young adults. The post From Coding Robots to Speed Netw

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Commission v Hungary must be understood in the context of the European rule of law saga and the ongoing struggle for true European solidarity. The CJEU confirmed the autonomous justiciability of Article 2 TEU even when the link to specific EU Charter provisions or secondary legislation would already suffice. A close look at ASJP case and its antecedents discloses a European society selectively built – protecting some configurations while leaving others outside – with solidarity, as an operative

Antoine Vauchez famously stated that the “constitutionalization of Europe” flourished in the hills of Fiesole. The Academy of European Law (AEL) at the European University Institute organizes an annual Summer Course on the Law of the European Union for two weeks of intensive lectures and exchange. I reflect on this year’s Summer Course as a site where ideas of European society are debated, contested, and further developed. Ultimately, I will critically reflect on what the Summer Course might tel

Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse. Source

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...     — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1 , and some providers are pushing costs below $0.10 . Across benchmarks, inference prices have fallen between 9x and 900x per year , with a median decline near 50x. Even frontier models are getting dramatically cheaper ea

We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.

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Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in physical AI development can still be gated by costly and fragmented resources, from large datasets and robot foundation models to simulation, compute and validation tools. NVIDIA and Hugging Face are […]

A matrix for assessing whether AI systems meet governance duties and deliver value for purpose, people, profit and planet.

The web is complex, open-ended, and constantly changing, making it challenging to scale training data for visual web agents. Existing data collection attempts remain limited to offline trajectories for supervised fine-tuning or a handful of simulated environments for RL training, thus failing to capture web diversity. We propose Weblica (Web Replica), a framework for constructing reproducible and scalable web environments. Our framework leverages 1) HTTP-level caching to capture and replay stabl

This week’s NATO summit in Ankara takes place at a pivotal moment in the alliance’s evolution – and for US–Europe relations. In Ankara, the agenda will rightly focus on defence spending targets and ...

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Also: Recent benchmark scores suggest rapid capabilities progress