Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses
Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo, a comp…

IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”
IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”

The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system” if they fall into the wrong hands. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva made the comment…

Scammers used Gemini AI to power a massive phishing operation and Google just sued them

A Chinese scam network used Google’s Gemini AI to flood millions of phones with fake texts and build over 9,000 phishing websites, prompting a landmark Google lawsuit.

From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once
From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once

The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circling back to the same handful of anxieties: generative AI, streaming fraud, underpaid songwriters, and the organisations m…

Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America
Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America

Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, at no cost, to all legally blind US veterans. “Meta AI on these glasses can describe what…

Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation
Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation

Mistral is in funding talks to raise about €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions. That would nearly double the price investors put on Europe’s leading AI startup just mo…

Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent
Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent

Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the cod…

OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud
OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud

OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. Terms were not disclosed. Codex is on a tear. OpenAI says more t…

Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China
Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China

Nvidia has started pitching its Vera CPU to Chinese customers. Orders can begin now, and deliveries could start as soon as August, Reuters reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the talks. It is a workaround dressed as a product launch. …

Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents
Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents

On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-management fintech had cut around 50 of its own staff, most of them in engineering and data. The prod…