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Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150

CTO says new AI model is "every bit as capable" as world's best security researchers.

‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution

Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran war

'Pushpaganda is, at the highest level, a case of social engineering': Experts warn scammers are flooding Google Discover with AI-generated content spreading malicious notifications

Pushpaganda uses AI-generated content and deceptive tactics to trick users into enabling notifications that deliver scams and evade traditional security defenses.

A Kashmir tourist hotspot became a bloodbath. A year on, the pain remains unbearable

A year after militants killed 26 people in Indian-administered Kashmir, families are trying to cope with their loss.

We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp's new book, cowritten with Nicholas Zamiska, is called The Technological Republic. After claiming "because we get asked a lot," Palantir posted a 22-point summary of the book that read...

This tool could show how consciousness works

How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln Lab researcher Daniel Freeman, and colleagues outline a strategy for doing so with an...

A natural protein may protect the GI tract from infection

Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has found that one such protein, intelectin-2, both helps fortify the mucosal barrier and offers broad-spectrum protection against harmful bac...

AI at MIT

At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Deng says she still doesn’t know whether she’d have gone all in on artificial intelligence had it not been for the covid pandemic. She ha...

Salta il secondo round di colloqui Iran-Usa in Pakistan, Trump estende la tregua

Borse in rosso, petrolio in rialzo. Berlino e Roma alzano il muro nell'Ue sulla sospensione dell'intesa con Israele. Tajani: 'Meglio le sanzioni ai coloni violenti'.

Resistance

Turns out not everyone wants to live in the future that AI companies are building. People from all walks of life are speaking out against rising electricity bills from data centers, disappearing jobs, chatbots’ impact on teen mental health, the military’s use of AI, and copyright infringement—among...

China’s open-source bet

Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce behind an API, and charge for every drop. China’s leading AI labs are playing a different game: They ship models as downloadable “open-weight” packages. This lets developers adapt the models and run them on their own hardw...

Artificial scientists

AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery as a justification for their existence: If the technology eventually cures cancer and solves climate change, then all the carbon emissions and slop videos will have been well worth it.  Already, LLMs can assist scienti...

Agent orchestration

When people say AI will speed up drug development or fear that it will bring about mass layoffs, what they have in mind—whether they know it or not—are AI agents. ChatGPT made large language models a mass consumer product. But to change the world, AI needs to do more than just talk back: It needs…

Weaponized deepfakes

For years, experts have warned that deepfakes—AI-generated videos, images, or audio recordings of people doing or saying things they haven’t actually done in real life—could be deployed in malicious ways.  These dangers are now here. Improvements in deepfake technology, and the widespread availabili...

World models

AI systems have already gained impressive mastery over the digital world, but the physical world is still humanity’s domain. As it turns out, building an AI system that can compose a novel or code an app is far easier than developing one that can fold laundry or navigate a city street. To get there,...

Supercharged scams

When ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, it opened people’s eyes to how easily generative AI could churn out vast amounts of human-seeming text from simple prompts. This quickly caught the attention of criminals, who soon began using large language models to produce malicious emails—bot...

LLMs+

When ChatGPT launched as an experimental prototype in late 2022, OpenAI’s chatbot became an everyday everything app for hundreds of millions of people. LLMs like ChatGPT were the new future: The entire tech industry was consumed by the inferno, with companies racing to spin up rival products. The as...

10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

Trump estende la tregua con l'Iran

La decisione dopo il rifiuto di Teheran di partecipare ai colloqui con gli Usa a Islamabad

Iran war: Trump says US extending ceasefire to give Iran more time to negotiate

President Donald Trump said he was ​extending the Iran ​ceasefire until an Iranian ⁠proposal ​is ​submitted, ​and discussions ‌are concluded. A US ceasefire with Iran was due to expire on Wednesday evening.

'The evidence is starting to mount': physicists at the LHC have found a possible 'anomaly' that could unlock 'a new understanding of how the universe works' — and 'charming penguins' may hold the key to whether the Standard Model is out of date

Physicists observe a four-sigma anomaly in a rare decay process, hinting at possible new physics, while uncertainties still limit firm conclusions

I tried my best not to love Dali's entry-level bookshelf speakers straight away, and my outright failure proves just how good they are

The Dali Sonik 1 entry-level passive bookshelf speakers sound at least twice their diminutive size with stunning vocal articulation, but are a little pricey.

Nigeria charges six over alleged Tinubu overthrow plot

The alleged plot comes after 16 military officers stood trial in January over a coup attempt against president Bola Tinubu.

Florida probes ChatGPT role in mass shooting. OpenAI says bot "not responsible."

Can ChatGPT be blamed for a mass shooting? Florida is investigating.

Il manifesto di Palantir, l'Ia militare al posto della politica

La dottrina Karp in 22 punti. La Silicon Valley aiuti il Pentagono

Report: Meta will train AI agents by tracking employees' mouse, keyboard use

Move highlights the difficulty of finding high-quality interactive training data.

Lebanon war puts pregnant women at risk

Lebanon’s healthcare system is under severe strain despite a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Thousands of displaced pregnant women are struggling to access medical services.

AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store

Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.

AI backlash is coming for elections

Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies and executives is unrestrained - sometimes to the point of condoning violence. But look at the issues...