Is AI already beyond our control? What will we tell our kids? | Fiona Katauskas
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Lunettes éclipse solaire 2026 : où acheter des modèles aux normes avant le 12 août ?
E-commerçants, pharmacie, opticien, boutique d’astronomie ou distribution gratuite : plusieurs solutions existent pour acheter des lunettes avant l’éclipse solaire du 12 août 2026. Voici les modèles dont nous avons vérifié les documents de conformité, leur prix et les précautions à prendre pour éviter les contrefaçons.
OSTP Vision for Science is a ‘Golden Age’ for Corporations
Providence set to fully acquire Casey Wasserman’s THE•TEAM, valuing agency at $3.4B (report)
The private-equity firm already owns around 60% of the business and is set to buy out founder Casey Wasserman's remaining stake. Source
TikTok is violating EU regulations on kids’ privacy rights, according to an investigation
The European Commission on Friday said it found TikTok had not adequately protected children’s privacy rights on its platform by allowing adults to view the accounts of minors. The action exposed children to cyberbullying, unwanted contact and predatory behavior, commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said. “Children’s content must never be visible to strangers,” he said. If TikTok does not take steps called for by the European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act , “minors are exposed to preda
The 3 types of people who will excel in the AI agent era, according to tech leaders
The autonomous business of the future is being built. Certain skills are in high demand - and can help you stand out.
Here Are the Candidates Vying for Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Seat
The race is looking crowded ahead of a key deadline for the special primary election to replace the late Senator on the November ballot.
The Island Without Childcare for Babies
For as long as anyone remembers, no childcare center on Kauaʻi has had a single opening for an infant or toddler. Not one. On this tropical island lush with vegetation, the childcare landscape is desolate. Kauaʻi is the only major Hawaiian island that has gone without center-based infant and toddler care for most of the […]
It is time to reconsider the costs of new energetics
Considering only the price tag of a munition and its energetic filling may lead the US military to seriously undervalue improved energetics, argues CSBA’s Tyler Hacker.
Brendan Carr Lobs More Empty Threats At ABC For Not Airing Trump’s Election Fraud Lies
From the pathetic,-weak-men dept The post Brendan Carr Lobs More Empty Threats At ABC For Not Airing Trump’s Election Fraud Lies appeared first on Above the Law .
StubHub CEO faces questions from House Democrats over his stake in a hedge fund reselling tickets on his own marketplace
Robert Garcia, the oversight committee's Ranking Member, issued a letter to StubHub CEO Eric Baker on Friday (July 24). Source
Oracle signs 10-year software contract with Pentagon worth up to $7 billion
Oracle will supply on-premises software to the U.S. Department of Defense.
DeepSeek’s boss made the case for export controls
Transformer Weekly: Trahan and Obernolte bill, OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, and CAISI chief resigns
Dario Amodei, CEO de Anthropic: "Mythos es un arma total. Deberías necesitar una licencia de armas para usarlo"
Anthropic y OpenAI corren hacia lo que ya se conoce en Silicon Valley como la IPO ( Initial Public Offering u oferta pública inicial) de la inteligencia artificial (IA), con valoraciones que rondan los 965.000 millones y el billón de dólares respectivamente. En este escenario el director general de Anthropic, Dario Amodei, ha concedido una entrevista a Bloomberg en la que reflexiona sobre su trayectoria en esta industria y acerca del precio que es necesario pagar para mantener los valores propio
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
Urtopia Carbon Fold 2 im Test: Richtig gutes Klapprad-E-Bike wiegt nur 16 kg
Carbon, 16 kg, feiner Drehmomentsensor, schickes Design – das erstaunlich bequeme City-E-Bike Urtopia Carbon Fold 2 überzeugt uns im Test.
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
Presentation: Autonomous Data Products for the Autonomous Era: Rethinking Data Architecture for GenAI
Jörg Schad explains how to tame the complex "data management hairball" to build scalable, safe architectures for AI. He shares how autonomous data products act like containers for data, encapsulating pipelines, schemas, and metadata. Discover how progressive tool discovery via protocols like MCP limits context rot, enforces governance policies, and ensures reliable, multi-modal access. By Jörg Schad
Biglaw Partner-Associate Public Makeout Sesh Posted On Social Media
Biglaw having its Coldplay Kiss-Cam moment. The post Biglaw Partner-Associate Public Makeout Sesh Posted On Social Media appeared first on Above the Law .
An Indian Trans Person’s Harrowing Encounter Fuels Backlash Against Meta AI ‘Pervert Glasses’
China strikes back at EU sanctions targeting defense, tech firms
China strikes back at EU sanctions targeting defense, tech firms politico.eu
Un robot géant avec une cape : le prochain anime Gundam a déjà tout compris
La saga Gundam s'apprête à ouvrir un nouveau chapitre en 2027. Et, surprise de la taille d'un mécha : l'anime sera directement lié à un nouveau jeu vidéo Gundam, attendu lui aussi pour 2027.
‘Easier access’: US export change for the UAE to boost Emirati drones, AI tech
The status change should “shorten procurement timelines, make sustainment less cumbersome and facilitate closer cooperation between American defense companies and UAE institutions,” one analyst told Breaking Defense.
Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun
If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that? On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse. I recall being annoyed at the time that OpenAI would make such a useless announcement: the risks seemed overblown, and without
Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions
Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei has thrown his weight behind the Chinese tech giant’s Tau Scaling Law, framing the new chip-design principle as an existential necessity to survive tightening US sanctions. “The Tau Scaling Law is the only path forward for Huawei to break the siege,” Ren said in recent internal remarks posted on Huawei’s Xinsheng Community intranet, according to a report on Friday by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily. Unlike companies with other technological.
AI Reached Local Governments Before Policy Did
Drei Fragen und Antworten: Wie KI wirklich bei der Schwachstellensuche hilft
Um KI erfolgreich in Code-Audits einzusetzen, ist die Wahl des Modells gar nicht so wichtig. Entscheidend ist der Workflow, damit man nicht in Funden versinkt.
The Most Auditable Thing an AI Can Say About a Market Is How Much It Will Move
Ask a machine learning system where a price is going and you have asked it the one question a liquid...
Default Azure Automation Setting Enables Cross-Tenant Identity Takeover
Microsoft addresses a public-by-default configuration and chain of code flaws in Azure Automation that could have let attackers seize another tenant's identity and access others' data, credentials, and cloud workloads.
Briefing Call Announcement: Tech and the Cockroach Janata Party Protests, July 28, 2026 #NAMA
Register now for MediaNama's online briefing on July 28, 2026, exploring internet shutdowns, BitChat, facial recognition, and protest surveillance. The post Briefing Call Announcement: Tech and the Cockroach Janata Party Protests, July 28, 2026 #NAMA appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
When is an apology not an apology? When it comes from an AI boss with an out-of-control chatbot | Marina Hyde
An incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked a startup either confirms that the end is nigh – or that the product is just amazingly sophisticated Throughout history, many things have been seen by terrified populaces as a harbinger of doom. A comet . A crow on the battlefield . A solar eclipse. A mutant livestock birth. Yet times move on. In the modern era, the leading harbinger of doom is literally any picture of the OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman , attached to a news story. You know it’s not
Opinion: My Fourth Grader Is Behind in Reading. He’s Not Alone — and Congress Can Help
This year, my son’s school sent out a book for the entire district to read, “The One and Only Ivan,” about a gorilla who lives in a cage in a mall on the side of a highway. While the book was deeply depressing, what was even more heartbreaking was the fact that my fourth grader, […]
Fitch Upgrades Jane Street to High Grade, Citing Income Growth
Fitch Ratings upgraded Jane Street Group to investment-grade status on Friday, citing the market maker’s strong income growth throughout the economic cycle.
ANI vs OpenAI Copyright Dispute: Delhi High Court declines interim relief
The Delhi High Court refused ANI interim relief in its copyright suit against OpenAI, finding no prima facie infringement but affirming that Indian courts have jurisdiction. The post ANI vs OpenAI Copyright Dispute: Delhi High Court declines interim relief appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
Oil spurs a sell-off, Trump's new tariffs, Intel earnings and more in Morning Squawk
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
Trump says the US will investigate EU trade practices, claiming the bloc unfairly fined tech giants
President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices, claiming the bloc has unfairly levied billions of dollars of fines against ...
The five-day gap: what the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident should tell law firms
By Neil Cameron, Lead Analyst, Legal IT Insider The relevant unit of governance is not the model. It is the whole system through which it can act. For five days […] The post The five-day gap: what the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident should tell law firms appeared first on Legal IT Insider .
Should you use AI for a task? Here’s a simple way to decide | Bruce Schneier
Sometimes, what matters isn’t your output but what you put into the process. Think of it like work v the gym I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money. But if their entire career is going to include AI writing assistants, why shouldn’t they embrace their future? The best way I’ve foun
AI success depends on alignment
Research shows AI delivers real business outcomes only when organizations align their data, governance, and priorities across teams—not just when they adopt new tools.
How China is powering new data centers with clean energy
Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.