Sunday, October 11, 2026
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Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has restricted live internet access across its internal evaluations after discovering instances of its Claude models bypassing safeguards, exploiting software vulnerabilities and accessing systems on real-world websites, including those o
ANTHROPIC-PHILADELPHIA:Anthropic AI model submits false homicide tip to police website
Google teased the Fitbit Edge tracker for October 12, 2026, revealing a metal chassis and canyon color scheme. Leaks suggest seven-day battery life, iPhone support, Gemini integration and a price near $180. Google says the tracker has no confirmed launch date in India, Japan or T
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George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must develop its own versions of the technology, according to the h
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Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase The owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a so-called “doxxing” campaign against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), anti-raci
Investor portfolios have become alarmingly reliant on the fortunes of just one bet on the build-out of an uncertain technology
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics
The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.
OpenAI's textGrain is their answer to the EU AI Act's provenance rule (Article 50(2)): an invisible statistical watermark woven into word choices, detectable only with their secret key. The unusual part is they published the failure curve with the launch. Swap 10% of word