Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO record lists a sound mark filed on 5 October in her own name, as an individual, through the Italian firm Prax…
In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg …
Arena has raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and is launching an Alignment Index that ranks AI models on how often they act without authorisation or report work they never finished. It measures that the same way it measures preference, through its users…
Google’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, whic…
Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) secured the changes after two years of scrutiny. The data regulator named them on Thursday: Ama…
Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at t…
NextBlock is putting $3 million behind an increasingly important challenge for public blockchains: how to give financial institutions privacy without forcing them to move their activity onto separate, purpose-built networks. The Luxembourg-based ventur…
Publica, the pension fund that provides pensions for staff of the Swiss federal government, has confirmed today that a data leak occurred as a result of a cyberattack on one of its external software suppliers. The Swiss government stated that the suppl…
Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlook’s blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a pa…
Ring has announced a $249 smart lock with a dial that recharges a dead battery by hand, due in the United States early in 2027. Amazon’s own disclosure says the lock has not been authorised by the Federal Communications Commission and may not be sold u…