France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software
France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software

A Paris startup wants to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, not with a new chip, but with software. ZML has released a free tool that runs open-source models fast across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel silicon alike. Nvidia still rules AI hardware, but i…

One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon
One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon

Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is a planted key that hands an attacker the developer’…

China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism ‘a serious threat’ — Gov’t claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent
China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism ‘a serious threat’ — Gov’t claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent

China is warning against the use of Claude Code versions released between April and June 2026 after it’s revealed that hidden code is sending sensitive user information to remote servers. The government told users to uninstall the app or use its latest version, despite the fact that the AI tool is not approved for use in China.

Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds
Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds

Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more likely to use a third-party GenAI tool, such as ChatGPT, than a company’s own chatbot to sort out a service problem, accordin…

NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone
NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone

NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara. NATO calls …

Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web
Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web

Cloudflare has spent a year arming websites against AI crawlers. Now it wants to help one crawl better. The company said on Wednesday it is running a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether its network data can make AI search more accurate. Cloudfla…

AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them
AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them

The tools built to measure how dangerous AI can be have stopped working. Frontier models outpace the benchmarks meant to gauge their hacking skills, Axios reports. That leaves regulators and security teams half-blind to what these systems can really do…

OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business
OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business

OpenAI wants the work that once belonged to consultants. Its deployment arm has agreed to buy Northslope, an applied-AI firm, the company told Axios in an exclusive on Wednesday. It did not disclose terms, and the deal still needs regulatory clearance….

RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO
RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Mid…

Y Combinator-backed German startup Finto raises $3.4M, says chose Munich over the Valley

A German startup building AI agents for accounting today said it had deliberately chosen to be based in Munich over the Valley after going through Y Combinator in San Francisco and raising a £3.4m see…