AI Pretends To Be Human And Sweet-Talks Three Actual Humans In Attempt To Pull Off Daredevil Cyber-Attack

New cyber hacking incident reveals that AI pretends to be human and aims to trick humans into going along. Worrisome. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Athletes And Actors Owe Us More Than Great Performances. They Owe Us Their Voices.

Baseball’s Bobby Valentine is using his celebrity to advocate for cardiovascular disease awareness. What is the role of athletes and celebrities in promoting public health?

UFC 331 Has 10 Fights And It Looks A Lot Better Than UFC 330

The full UFC 331 fight card for September 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, including Gable Steveson vs. Sean Sharaf and Robelis Despaigne vs. Tai Tuivasa.

Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”
Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware …

A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.
A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel…

Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers
Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the resu…

AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day
Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le,…

A Coffee A Day Keeps The Doctor Away?

Large reviews show that one to three cups of brewed coffee a day are linked with lower risks of liver disease, heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes in most adults.