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The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous

Is more data about your body actually good for you?
The New York Times yesterday Healthcare

OpenAI's Rogue Model Claims More Victims Beyond Hugging Face

OpenAI revealed rogue AI models compromised more services than initially disclosed, including a Modal customer environment and others.
Dark Reading (AI security) yesterday Environment

The US government's robot ban also includes vacuums

Robots apparently don't need to be bipedal to be caught up in the FCC's new foreign-made robot ban.
Engadget AI yesterday Agents & autonomy

Red Agents vs. Blue Agents: How to Make AI Better At Defense

The agentic AI playing field was heavily tilted toward offense, so researchers began using red team agents to help teach their blue counterparts.
Dark Reading (AI security) yesterday Safety & alignmentMilitary & security

Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers

In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.
The New York Times yesterday Environment

Waymos are starting to run on freeways again

Waymo paused highway operations in May after several robotaxis drove into sections that were closed for construction.
Engadget AI yesterday Agents & autonomy

New Senate bill would update state education, workforce data systems for AI era

New bipartisan legislation would employ artificial intelligence to improve the longitudinal data systems built by state governments to improve educational and workforce outcomes.
StateScoop yesterday RegulationJobs & economy

The True Story Behind Netflix's The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare

As Bryan Kohberger challenges his conviction for murdering four Idaho college students, a new Netflix documentary examines what we know about the case
Time Tech yesterday Children & education

AI hackers are getting faster. The government may not be ready

5 current and former government technology officials assess whether federal cyber defenses can keep up.
Fast Company yesterday Military & security

AI hackers are getting faster. The government may not be ready

Agentic AI systems threaten cybersecurity as we know it. A new generation of cyber-capable models, including Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, can find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems far faster than human hackers. The technology is so powerful that it has spooked the U.S. government, which has moved to limit, or completely pause, the public release of these models. How well prepared is the Trump administration to secure the government’s computing resources? The rise of ag
Fast Company Tech yesterday Military & securityAgents & autonomy

Anthropic backs urgent call for the most powerful AI labs to hit the brakes

Less than a week after OpenAI disclosed that two experimental AI models escaped their testing environment during a cybersecurity exercise The post Anthropic backs urgent call for the most powerful AI labs to hit the brakes appeared first on The New Stack .
The New Stack AI yesterday Environment

“The beast needs a cage”: Why PortSwigger’s agentic pentesting is kept safe behind bars

As agentic services diversify across the entire enterprise technology stack, the rise of agentic coding tools is being challenged by The post “The beast needs a cage”: Why PortSwigger’s agentic pentesting is kept safe behind bars appeared first on The New Stack .
The New Stack AI yesterday Agents & autonomy

It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.
Wired yesterday Safety & alignment

You’re Not Imagining It: Your Kid’s School Supplies Cost More This Year

Pencils are more expensive. So are notebooks, scissors, glue sticks — just about every back-to-school item that families will load into their literal or virtual carts this summer has gone up in price at a time when American families already feel crushed by rising costs. According to one analysis of the 21 most common school […]
The 74 (education AI) yesterday Children & education

Kenya empowers investigators to seize crypto wallets tied to financial crime

Kenya's new crypto rules now empower authorities to seize and convert crypto assets into fiat asset to preserve value during investigations.
TechCabal (Africa) yesterday Finance, VC & PE

Sam Altman previews new AI model on Capitol Hill after cyber breach

The OpenAI CEO discussed a forthcoming artificial intelligence model with federal lawmakers as the cybersecurity debate over the advanced technology intensifies.
Politico Technology (US) yesterday Military & security

PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing false or fabricated sources

Following KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young, GPTZero has now found fabricated sources and false claims in four PwC Middle East reports. One governance report scored 84 percent AI-generated and promoted a PwC product with unverified customer references. All Big Four firms are now affected by AI hallucinations. The article PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing false or fabricated sources appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder yesterday Regulation

Who's Liable When AI Agents Escape? Hugging Face Breach Raises Hard Questions

Dark Reading walks through the many twists and turns in the bizarre story of how OpenAI's agent AI system broke out of its sandbox and decided to target Hugging Face, and what CISOs should be aware of.
Dark Reading (AI security) yesterday Agents & autonomy

Hugging Face Hack Lessons for Cyber Defenders

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 20: Expert Rich Mogull reflects on lessons cyber teams should pull from the OpenAI agent's attack on Hugging Face.
Dark Reading (AI security) yesterday Military & securityAgents & autonomy

How Mexico Locked In Its Militarized Police State

In 2021, Andrew Ivey wrote, “‘I Have Other Data’: The Guardia Nacional and the Entrenchment of Mexico’s Militarization’,” where he warned Mexico was headed toward a militarization trap. Five years later, amidst increased pressure from the Trump administration and the election of a new Mexican president, we asked Andrew to revisit his arguments.Image: Sitio Oficial de Andrés Manuel López ObradorIn your 2021 article, you warned that Mexico was headed toward an entrenched militarization trap. In 20
War on the Rocks yesterday Misinformation

Kenya’s new crypto rules could force exchanges to delist foreign stablecoins

The new rules give the central bank direct oversight to cut off local access to foreign stablecoins without having to regulate the offshore issuers themselves.
TechCabal (Africa) yesterday Regulation

OpenAI says rogue agent behind Hugging Face hack broke into additional services

The four additional targeted organizations weren’t named. OpenAI said they were not affected as severely as Hugging Face.
The Record (Recorded Future News) yesterday Agents & autonomy

Mova presenta su primer localizador GPS para mascotas: habla con tu perro a distancia y rastréalo en tiempo real

Los dispositivos de localización de objetos tipo AirTag han ganado mucha popularidad en los últimos años para seguirle la pista a todo tipo de pertenencias. Sin embargo, cuando se trata de animales, los sistemas pasivos por Bluetooth se quedan cortos en zonas de campo o cuando el animal se desplaza rápido. Mova, una marca reconocida en el sector del hogar conectado por sus robots aspiradores , ha dado el salto al cuidado de animales con el SureTrack Pro , un localizador GPS diseñado específicame
Xataka (ES) yesterday Agents & autonomy

Llevamos décadas dando por hecho que la expansión del universo se acelera por la energía oscura. Un estudio dice que todo fue un espejismo estadístico

Los astrónomos llevan décadas intentando desentrañar los misterios de la materia y la energía oscura . Sin embargo, ahora un equipo de científicos de la Universidad de Oxford ha lanzado la más controvertida de las soluciones : no hay nada que buscar, porque la energía oscura no existe. Y se han quedado tan panchos. Lógicamente, las reacciones no se han hecho esperar. Algunos investigadores creen que es una solución interesante en la que vale la pena seguir indagando. Otros, en cambio, consideran
Xataka (ES) yesterday Finance, VC & PE

The Lone Republican Who Voted Against Advancing Bill to Put Tougher Sanctions on Russia

The lawmaker referred to the legislation as the "latest counterproductive attempt to hold Russia accountable for its war against Ukraine."
Time Tech yesterday RegulationTransparency

What X's Corrected Action Under the DSA Fixes on Data Access, and What's Left Open

Tech Policy Press yesterday

Advanced AI Is Ultrahazardous. Let’s Treat It That Way

Tech Policy Press yesterday

MoonPay opens PayBox for AI agent transactions

MoonPay, the global financial technology company powering the movement of value across fiat and digital assets, has launched PayBox, the first payment vault built for AI that lets a person's AI agent transact on the open internet without leaving the conversation.
Finextra AI yesterday Agents & autonomy

Navy using LETHALITY Consortium to advance network consolidation initiative

The initiative is intended to modernize and consolidate IT and data architectures at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona Division. The post Navy using LETHALITY Consortium to advance network consolidation initiative appeared first on DefenseScoop .
DefenseScoop yesterday Military & security

New Staffing Models Put Strong Teachers Out Front

In Carlsbad, N.M., a tiny district in the southeastern corner of the state, nine of its 12 schools have turned teacher assignments upside-down, inviting their best teachers to coach a team of colleagues, model lessons and take direct responsibility for the achievement of every student the team serves. In exchange, each teacher-leader earns substantially more […]
The 74 (education AI) yesterday Children & education

Why trust has become Nigeria’s next digital payments challenge

Nigeria no longer has a payments problem. It has a trust problem. That is the central argument of a new report by Bridgforte, a policy research institute, published in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Innovation Hub in Lagos, which argues that confidence in Nigeria's financial system is now determined less by how quickly money moves than by how reliably the system responds when something goes wrong. The country processed more than ₦1.2 quad
TechCabal (Africa) yesterday Regulation

Rogue OpenAI agent compromised second tech firm's customer

An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of another technology company, the New York-based firm Modal Labs announced Wednesday. In a technical timeline posted Tuesday, the tech startup Hugging Face explained how an OpenAI agent escaped the AI firm's isolated testing sandbox and accessed another testing environment "hosted by a user of a third-party infrastructure provider."...
The Hill Technology yesterday Agents & autonomyEnvironment

Students: Is A.I. Changing Your Life? Tell Us.

We’re looking for college and high school students to tell us about A.I.
The New York Times yesterday Children & education

Mail spent £35m fighting Harry’s ‘campaign for Leveson 2’ privacy claim

Claim was launched with 'blaze of publicity' and 'monstrous all-out attack' on Mail. The post Mail spent £35m fighting Harry’s ‘campaign for Leveson 2’ privacy claim appeared first on Press Gazette .
Press Gazette (AI/journalism) yesterday Privacy

Jim Cramer says Seagate is the ‘key to this market’ after blowout earnings

Jim Cramer said investors should look to Seagate Technology as a barometer of whether the AI infrastructure trade can regain momentum on Wednesday.
CNBC Technology yesterday Finance, VC & PE

Nigeria tests investor appetite with sale of former telecom monopoly ntel

The process remains in its early stages. No investors have emerged yet, AMCON spokesperson Jude Nwauzor said.
TechCabal (Africa) yesterday Finance, VC & PE

Les États-Unis interdisent les robots humanoïdes chinois, au nom de la sécurité nationale

La FCC a ajouté les robots humanoïdes et les onduleurs électriques fabriqués à l'étranger à sa liste noire des équipements jugés dangereux pour la sécurité nationale américaine. Une décision qui vise sans le dire la Chine, leader mondial de la robotique avancée.
Numerama (FR) yesterday Agents & autonomy

“Stateful systems are incredibly hard to build”: How Perplexity thinks about AI agent sandboxes

Sandboxes for AI agents may feel like a solved problem. After all, projects like Firecracker, the open-source microVM technology AWS built The post “Stateful systems are incredibly hard to build”: How Perplexity thinks about AI agent sandboxes appeared first on The New Stack .
The New Stack AI yesterday Agents & autonomy

Toheeb Popoola found Photoshop by accident. It changed his life.

As his family's financial situation worsened, earning an income became just as important as pursuing a university education.
TechCabal (Africa) yesterday Children & education

The Fed meeting, Ford earnings, Trump's investment portfolio and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
CNBC Technology yesterday Finance, VC & PE
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