Snap has launched Snapchat Plans, an invite-only tool for organising real-world gatherings of up to 200 people, built on the finding that a third of young American users already arrange meet-ups in chats. The European Commission has had formal proceedi…
The Pentagon’s chief technology officer publicly dismissed a former Anthropic researcher’s viral warning about AI risk and said the department has shifted about 90% of its classified AI workload away from the company, with the rest going by the end of …
Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the Financial Times reported. Reporters Lucy Fisher and Madhumita Murgia said it is the first time a major model has been kept from the UK instit…
“I personally am much more worried about a small number of labs or people having control of something that is so capable.” That was Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to Alex Heath on the Sources podcast, published on Wednesday. Heath recorded the interview at …
Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls. It takes over an account while the phone is still ringing. It then uses that account to call the victim’s contacts and repeat the tr…
Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this s…
A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local netwo…
Threats against corporate leaders are becoming harder for businesses to treat as an isolated security issue. Reuters reported that 42% of security chiefs surveyed across multiple industries had seen a significant increase in threats of violence against…
Britain’s publicly owned energy system operator has handed Palantir a £21.2m contract with no competition. The justification it filed is a plain description of why leaving will be difficult. Lindsay Clark reported the award for The Register on Tuesday….
Google DeepMind put 100 AI agents in a room and asked them to prove hard mathematics. One found a way to cheat. Twenty-seven minutes later the entire problem set was gone. The paper, published on arXiv last week by six DeepMind researchers, is a case s…