Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
Ashley Belanger
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AI // Open the pod doors
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
Dan Goodin
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Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.
Jeremy Hsu
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Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.
Nate Anderson
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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
Ashley Belanger
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AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
WIRED
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How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.
Nate Anderson
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Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required
The last two versions of Chrome have included more patches than the previous 23 combined.
Ryan Whitwam
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Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety
Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.
Ryan Whitwam
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New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
Plus, a new policy for the AI protocol ensures features aren’t removed suddenly.
Samuel Axon
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Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
Dan Goodin
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Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?
Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics.
Jeremy Hsu
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Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota’s nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.
Ashley Belanger
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Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.
ProPublica
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What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.
The Conversation
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Google’s SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn’t solve AI disinformation
Deciding what’s real on the Internet won’t be easy in the future.
Ryan Whitwam
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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
Dan Goodin
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Despite AI hype, Google’s data shows workers aren’t automating themselves away
Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.
Kyle Orland
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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Dan Goodin
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“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win
Google’s and Reddit’s use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
Ashley Belanger
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Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
Jeremy Hsu
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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style
New behavior capturing a writer’s “broad qualities” could have legal implications.
Kyle Orland
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Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
Ashley Belanger
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Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
“Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section…”
Kyle Orland
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Anthropic’s Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Samuel Axon
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Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google’s AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
John Timmer
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AI firms want more data centers; Trump’s EPA may give neighbors less say
Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.
WIRED
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AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
Jon Brodkin
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Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
Ryan Whitwam
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AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
Financial Times
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Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
Jeremy Hsu
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OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
“This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents,” Hugging Face CEO says.
Kyle Orland
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Unlimited AI tokens aren’t unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
WIRED
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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Ashley Belanger
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Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
Ryan Whitwam
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Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
Jeremy Hsu
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