Xbox’s new boss Asha Sharma makes three big promises
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Microsoft announced a major gaming leadership change on Friday. Phil Spencer, the Microsoft Gaming CEO, is departing the company. Sarah Bond, the Xbox President, is also leaving. Spencer will be replaced by Asha Sharma, a former executive at Instacart and…
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'Ethereum Is Going Hard': Vitalik Buterin Backs Censorship Resistance Upgrade
Jason Nelson / decrypt - Ethereum developers scheduled a controversial upgrade for later this year. Buterin said it reinforces the network’s cypherpunk principles.
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Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting
bbc - OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.
- ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting. (5)
- Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs. (4)
- OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada. (3)
- Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea. (1)
ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting.
Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs.
OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada.
Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea.
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AMC and Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre are pulling this AI-generated film from theaters after social media outcry over ‘hot garbage’
Jude Cramer / fastcompany - When word started circling that AMC Theaters was screening an AI-generated short film, the internet’s cinephiles took it personally.On Wednesday, some social media users reported that the short was playing in the pre-show before trailers at select AMC loc…
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AI Safety Meets the War Machine
Steven Levy / wired - Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.
- DC: Congress, PACs battle over AI rules and influence (2)
- On the ground: Anthropic resists military use, Pentagon pushback (7)
- OTHER (2)
- Wall Street reels as Anthropic's Claude Code disrupts cybersecurity stocks (6)
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DC: Congress, PACs battle over AI rules and influence
On the ground: Anthropic resists military use, Pentagon pushback
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Wall Street reels as Anthropic's Claude Code disrupts cybersecurity stocks
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OpenAI’s hardware debut may come in the form of a camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker
digitaltrends - A new report suggest OpenAI's first hardwre product could be a speaker equipped with a camera, rather than the wearable hinted at in an earlier leak.The post OpenAI’s hardware debut may come in the form of a camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker appeared first …
- Jony Ive leads design of OpenAI's first home device (4)
- OpenAI's camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker and hardware roadmap (6)
- Other OpenAI corporate news and unrelated updates (2)
- Privacy backlash: a watchful AI speaker worries critics (3)
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Jony Ive leads design of OpenAI's first home device
OpenAI's camera-equipped ChatGPT speaker and hardware roadmap
Other OpenAI corporate news and unrelated updates
Privacy backlash: a watchful AI speaker worries critics
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Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assi…
- Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls (3)
- Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks (5)
- Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage (6)
Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls
Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks
Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage
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Figma shares climb on earnings beat, but analysts note that AI risk remains
cnbc - Figma's revenue grew 40% year over year to $303.8 million during the period.
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OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use
Paresh Dave, wired.com / arstechnica - The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
- Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears (7)
- NVIDIA enables faster local OpenClaw runs on RTX and DGX (1)
- Researchers and NIST push standards as agentic AI runs wild (7)
- Startups clone OpenClaw, selling agentic automation to businesses (7)
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Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears
NVIDIA enables faster local OpenClaw runs on RTX and DGX
Researchers and NIST push standards as agentic AI runs wild
Startups clone OpenClaw, selling agentic automation to businesses
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Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools
msmash / slashdot - Accenture has reportedly started tracking staff use of its AI tools and will take this into consideration when deciding on top promotions, as the consulting company tries to increase uptake of the technology by its workforce. From a report: The company to…
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New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart contract vulnerabilities on their own
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm have built EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can find, fix, and exploit security vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.The article New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart c…
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Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has confirmed a bug allowed Copilot AI to access and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data protection policies.The post Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Modi pitches India as global artificial intelligence hub at AI summit
abcnews - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pitched India as a major hub for artificial intelligence, built at home and used worldwide
- Banking and payments: NPCI’s FiMI and AI fraud defenses (2)
- Industrial AI arms race: Tata, Reliance, NVIDIA build compute backbone (7)
- Modi's MANAV: India’s sovereign AI strategy and policy push (3)
- Summit drama: Gates exit and cold CEOs signal tensions (5)
Banking and payments: NPCI’s FiMI and AI fraud defenses
Industrial AI arms race: Tata, Reliance, NVIDIA build compute backbone
Modi's MANAV: India’s sovereign AI strategy and policy push
Summit drama: Gates exit and cold CEOs signal tensions
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Ring’s AI-powered Search Party won’t stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge - A leaked internal email obtained by 404 Media shows that Ring has bigger plans for its AI-powered neighborhood search capability than just looking for lost dogs. The outlet reports the email, sent last October by founder Jamie Siminoff to all Ring employe…
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Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails
msmash / slashdot - Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: Acc…
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India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: An Indian university has been asked to vacate its stall at the country's flagship AI summit after a staff member was caught presenting a commercially available robotic dog made in China as its own creation, two governm…
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Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy.Perplexity was one of the first AI services to embrace ads in 2024, after…
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Palantir is caught in the middle of a brewing fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon
Rebecca Heilweil / fastcompany - A dispute between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company’s technology has now gone public. Amid tense negotiations, Anthropic has reportedly called for limits on two key applications: mass surveillance and autonomo…
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Tesla’s 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since launching in June
Max Knoblauch / sherwood - Tesla submitted five new crash reports in January involving its Austin Robotaxi fleet, Electrek reports.
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OpenAI hires 'genius' OpenClaw creator, but popular AI assistant will remain open source — Sam Altman says creator will work on 'smart agents' in new role
tomshardware - OpenAI has hired the creator of popular agentic AI tool OpenClaw, but has decided to keep the project open source. Despite its old Claude-inspired name, Anthropic threatened Steinberger with legal action ahead of multiple name changes.
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