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A fridge hack sparked fires across European supermarkets
Attackers reached internet-exposed controllers and turned defrosters into heaters, wrecking stock across five countries.
A cute robot toy leaked millions of children’s chats
A Verge reporter asked Eiliko whether it shared conversations. Within minutes, a stranger had the transcript.
Benchmark finds 81 of 134 AI systems assist terrorist prompts
A new benchmark found 81 of 134 models would help with mass casualty requests under a thin pretext.
Modal Labs nets $750M Series D at $15.75B value
The AI cloud provider tripled its annualized revenue in five months and now counts over $1B a year.
Huang steers $2B into Europe and hands UK labs free compute
Nvidia's CEO spent a week in Europe buying stakes in French startups and funding agent safety research.
Meta drops an 816B open model built for coding agents
Muse Spark Open becomes the largest US open-weight release to date, with vision and audio baked in.
Eight states take OpenAI to court over child safety
Attorneys general allege the company misled families about what ChatGPT does to young users.
Anthropic tells investors it booked $16.8B last quarter
The Claude maker's revenue jumped roughly 45 percent in three months as it lines up a November listing.
Apate’s undercover AI bots bait fraudsters before victims get hurt
An Australian startup deploys thousands of personas that bait fraudsters into revealing their accounts and infrastructure before a…
Scimplify raises $25M to loosen China’s grip on materials
The Indian startup uses specialized AI agents to move specialty chemicals from customer request to finished product in…
Deezer will let listeners hide AI-made music entirely
The streaming service is building a toggle to strip AI-generated tracks from search and recommendations as synthetic uploads…
Microsoft open-sources a fix for long-range weather bias
A machine learning layer corrects systematic errors in existing forecast models, extending useful predictions weeks further on ordinary…
Stripped guardrails let open models answer terror prompts
A new benchmark found that removed safety layers turn widely available open-weight models into willing assistants for extremist…
AI labs turn to dead startups for training data
A new industry is brokering the code, chats, and documents of shuttered companies to labs that have exhausted…
OpenAI and Anthropic back binding British AI rules
The two labs told a parliamentary committee that voluntary safety pledges no longer suffice, splitting them from Google…