Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it
Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it

A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped being hypothetical this year. Valarian, a London-ba…

The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them
The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them

The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia’s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine individuals and four entities, while the UK went further with 24, Politico reports. The language is what matters here. The…

Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes
Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes

The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was meant to be a fix for the deepfake problem, not an example of it. This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Muse …

Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.
Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.

The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument in…

Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place
Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place

Beijing’s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the South China Morning Post. China’s National Vulnerability Database, overseen b…

The US agency that defends federal networks did not have its own incident response playbook when it got hacked
The US agency that defends federal networks did not have its own incident response playbook when it got hacked

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed in a postmortem report on Friday that it did not have a prepared response plan for handling a cybersecurity incident when one hit in May. CISA staff “had to spend time building [a playboo…

Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware designs, alleging employees brought prototypes to “show and tell” interviews
Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware designs, alleging employees brought prototypes to “show and tell” interviews

Apple has sued OpenAI in a California federal court, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using current and former employees to steal hardware designs as it prepares to launch AI-focused consumer devices. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, names OpenAI’s chief har…

The Eval Stack: Proving the agents are right instead of claiming It
The Eval Stack: Proving the agents are right instead of claiming It

Most AI research tools point a language model at the web and trust the output. Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour around the opposite instinct: grade everything, ship only what improves the score. Saarth Shah keeps a scoreboard. Every build of Sixtyfour’s res…

Anthropic built a tool that reads Claude’s unspoken thoughts. Then it caught the model scheming
Anthropic built a tool that reads Claude’s unspoken thoughts. Then it caught the model scheming

Anthropic has built something close to a mind-reading tool for its own AI. What it found sits somewhere between a breakthrough and an unsettling party trick. Anthropic researchers now have the clearest view yet of what a large language model does while…

UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face
UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face

Walk into a shop with the wrong face on file, and the police could know within four seconds. That is the pitch, and the problem. A facial recognition system in more than 100 UK shops is about to start calling the police in real time. It will fire the m…