What makes a fax HIPAA compliant in the AI era
What makes a fax HIPAA compliant in the AI era

HHS has never told healthcare to stop faxing. Its guidance says the Privacy Rule permits physicians to disclose PHI to another provider by fax for treatment, as long as reasonable and appropriate safeguards are in place. Take two identical referral for…

AI helped uncover a hidden PHP flaw. Now websites worldwide are facing millions of hacking attempts.

A critical PHP vulnerability has triggered millions of exploit attempts worldwide. AI tools helped researchers uncover the flaw, leaving governments and companies racing to patch vulnerable websites.

Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API
Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API

Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most widely used tools for scoring online comments for toxicity. For platforms, publishers, marketp…

Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and says it cut its hacking skills
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and says it cut its hacking skills

Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgraded version of its open-weight Kimi K3, with full weights due by 4 November. It says the model nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding test. Moonshot also says it removed hacking-related training data to …

AI chipmaker Cambricon’s sales miss points to tight chip supply in China
AI chipmaker Cambricon’s sales miss points to tight chip supply in China

Cambricon’s revenue doubled to 3.53B yuan in the third quarter, well short of the 6.26B analysts expected, Bloomberg reported. Profit rose 148%, and the company kept its 2026 target. Chinese AI chipmakers face shortages of high-bandwidth memory and lim…

Meta delays its website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash
Meta delays its website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash

Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The delay came a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded the terms be with…

Oracle pledges $1B over four years to partners that sell its AI tools
Oracle pledges $1B over four years to partners that sell its AI tools

Oracle announced a $1B, four-year commitment to its partner ecosystem at AI World in Las Vegas, covering training, test and demo environments, cloud migration funding and Marketplace sales. It also changed Marketplace rules. The pledge comes as Oracle …

Nscale sued in Norway over a data centre engineer’s dismissal
Nscale sued in Norway over a data centre engineer’s dismissal

An engineer at Nscale’s Stavanger data centre has sued the AI cloud firm and subcontractor CloudBrothers, Bloomberg reported. He claims Nscale directed his work like an employer and that he was fired after raising pay concerns. The case comes as Nscale…

Unitree is building AI that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves
Unitree is building AI that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves

Unitree Robotics is building a system that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves, founder Wang Xingxing said on Thursday. He calls it Unitree Rehearsal. He named it the company’s most important project of the year, Minxiao Chang reported for the …

OpenClaw creator puts last month’s token bill at $10M, The Register reports
OpenClaw creator puts last month’s token bill at $10M, The Register reports

Peter Steinberger created the open-source AI agent OpenClaw and now works at OpenAI. He estimates he spent about $10M on AI tokens last month. He said so on stage at Cloudflare’s Connect conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Thomas Claburn reported…