The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted the intrusion and picked it apart. The company disclose…
A Seoul National University team built an AI that scores self-driving cars’ safety choices in real time, and it just landed a rare CVPR highlight paper nod.
On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first natio…
Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance. In Deloitte’s latest quarterl…
ETH spin-off goNEON Agentic Systems has secured €160,000 (CHF150,000) in funding from Venture Kick to accelerate the development of its agentic AI platform for infrastructure planning. The funding com…
The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also develop their own biases from…
Jeff Bezos and the UK government-backed VC fund backing domestic AI startups have invested in a UK startup developing AI systems to discover and design new materials for clean energy and chipmaking in…
A cybersecurity researcher poisoned an open weight AI model for under $100 in about an hour, exposing how easily these increasingly popular systems can be secretly compromised without detection.
Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung rip…
Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30% to 76%. “People became much…