A built-in Google Workspace feature became a Chinese espionage group’s favourite exfiltration tool
A built-in Google Workspace feature became a Chinese espionage group’s favourite exfiltration tool

A China-linked espionage group spent more than a year inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks, stealing sensitive data and defence email. The attackers got in through a backdoor on REDCap research servers. The exfiltrati…

The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months
The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months

The Pentagon’s generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users across the Department of Defense, according to the department’s chief technology officer. The figure represents nearly half of the DoD’s 3.5 million workforce. Six months…

Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history
Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes…

100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers
100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers

Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling …

Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ returns from seven years in the shadows with a bold new scaling law
Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ returns from seven years in the shadows with a bold new scaling law

For seven years, He Tingbo worked in silence. The head of Huawei’s semiconductor business, widely known as the company’s “chip queen,” vanished from public view in 2019 after Washington severed the Chinese company’s access to advanced technology. Her r…

Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.
Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.

The Seattle Fire Department has been using artificial intelligence to listen to every 911 medical call in the city since December 2023, according to a GeekWire investigation published this week. The AI, built by Copenhagen-based startup Corti, monitors…

Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’
Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’

The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to re…

US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal
US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal

The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic dis…

UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots
UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots

Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the main platforms and curb features judged too addictive for young users, according to reporting on the government’s plans. Pr…

Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”
Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland…