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AI labs want in-house auditors — but maybe they should shut the front door first
There may be a simpler and more effective fix for rogue agents, hiding in plain sight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI agents now have a place to snitch; also, US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan
The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities. Also, the AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the wo
Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans ... plus a Volkswagen Electric Prototype and the new ClickFix attacks
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implem
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards; plus, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety. Also, while OpenAI has filed confide
Anthropic revealed rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you; plus, AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human. Also, as AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests. Learn mo
Shiny new iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models; plus, DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku deal
Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air. Also, the Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn ove
‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
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Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government; plus, a hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it
Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now, the plant's owner is getting a $1.9B loan from the U.S. Energy Department. Also, a hacker stole thousands of bitcoins worth about $340 million in a heist at a s
A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder. Check out the Elizabeth Holmes' documentary here
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge; plus, the sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems. While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
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Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit h
Open AI’s Astra model is very good at breaking into computer systems; Uber is laying off 3300; plus Norway considering ban on ‘pervert glasses’
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM. Also, Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, or about 10% of its global headcount, in a bid to reduce management layers and inves
If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?;plus, Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns
The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri. Also, Flock's searchable network of 130,000 license plate cameras around the U.S. have sparked bipartisan privacy and civ
The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok; FTC accused Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme,' plus, Kalshi banned George Santos for life
Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools. Also, Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the FTC and 22 states for allegedly secretly charging businesses more for ad
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem; plus, Caterpillar is bringing what it learned from automating mining to AI implementation
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everyw
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
-Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats. -Barret Zoph, the Think
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before. Also, Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale; plus, Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
First announced last October, Jalapeño was developed by OpenAI in close collaboration with Broadcom, with OpenAI’s own models assisting in the development process. Also, The M5 Ultra, which Apple deems its “most powerful chip ever,” fuses t
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns; plus, Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs Also, Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisi
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? Plus, is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation. Also, most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools th
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web. Also, Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via a
US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI
Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States. Also, Alation, a data search and AI giant, confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach; plus, Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process. Also, on Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new in
WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators, Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, and Amazon is destroying rare texts to train AI
-WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional website-building tools. -Feedly's CEO said that despite the pivot to cyber threat intelligence, fixing the basic RSS functionality is
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’; plus, a Tennessee woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI. Also, the woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse." Learn more about your ad cho
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://p
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng—debated regulation, open-source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https:/
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models; plus, as AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect. Also, OpenAI is expanding its AI
