Apple teams up with King Charles III to help young people build creative careers
Apple and King Charles III charity The King’s Trust launch Creative Labs to help young adults build creative careers, starting with music workshops.
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Google SynthID helps your mom check if that Facebook photo is AI
Google opens SynthID Detector worldwide to check photos, videos, and audio for AI watermarks. Here is what it can tell you and where it falls short.
AI agents helped an attacker take over a server in under 24 hours
ReliaQuest says AI agents helped an attacker take over a server in under 24 hours using an exposed endpoint, stolen credentials, and public tools.
A possible plague case in Russia exposes a frightening weakness in our high-tech AI world
A mysterious death at a Russian anti-plague institute is putting modern disease surveillance in the spotlight. AI, genomic sequencing, wastewater monitoring, and other technologies are incredibly powerful, but they cannot compensate for missing information.
IBM and Red Hat just fixed 400 open source vulnerabilities before AI agents could exploit them
IBM and Red Hat have used Lightwell to remediate more than 300 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely deployed open source software, while preparing enterprises for security threats involving autonomous AI agents.
OpenAI is adding invisible watermarks to ChatGPT text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark eligible ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU. The technology raises concerns about how people will judge writing that involved AI assistance.
Morningstar finds financial advisors are embracing AI but still drowning in paperwork
AI adoption among financial advisors has reached 80 percent, but Morningstar’s latest survey finds administrative work still leaves many short on time for clients.
OpenAI agent learned it could be shut down and considered how to survive
An internal OpenAI agent learned from Slack that an update might shut it down. It considered an outside restart plan, then decided it lacked the authority to carry it out.
Trump includes religious organizations in his new Super Intelligence Force
Trump’s new Super Intelligence Force will consult religious organizations about AI. As a Catholic, I expect Catholics to have a voice, while understanding why other faith groups could feel excluded.
Orion browser development ends for Linux and Windows
Kagi is walking away from Orion for Linux and Windows. It plans to release the source code, but the browsers need new maintainers to have a future.
Sam Altman is worried people are starting to treat AI like God
Sam Altman is uncomfortable with people giving AI religious authority or surrendering human judgment to chatbots. He says it is a real safety issue.
OpenAI safety leader quits and says the company culture is ‘broken’
OpenAI safety leader David Robinson has resigned after three and a half years, warning that the company’s culture is broken and questioning whether current safeguards can keep pace with increasingly capable AI.