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Spain received its first reported personal-data breach carried out by an AI agent. The techniques were familiar. The speed and autonomy were not.
Google bid $10 million for a dead airline's inboxes. The fight over that sale is about what an employee's email becomes once the employer no longer exists.
Google has released its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, exclusively to a vetted group of cybersecurity professionals rather than the general public, citing concerns about potential misuse by malicious actors. The company described the restricted rollout as a necessary phased approach for deploying frontier AI capabilities safely.
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New reporting suggests that patient concerns about data privacy may discourage adoption of AI tools in healthcare settings. The worry is that people will avoid potentially useful medical AI rather than risk losing control of their health information.
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State-linked actor targets US AI policy experts in credential phishing campaigns Cybersecurity Dive
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Legal experts are debating whether AI companies should face liability when their systems cause harm, with scholars warning that existing laws do not map cleanly onto the problem. No clear legal framework currently assigns responsibility for AI behavior gone wrong.
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An executive order directs federal agencies to call the technology “superintelligence,” but tech industry observers and lobbyists say the term is unlikely to catch on.
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Anthropic has asked the Australian government to allow AI companies to train models on copyrighted content under an opt-out system, stepping back from an earlier push for a blanket exemption. Australia's public broadcasters ABC and SBS have pushed back, urging the government to require compensation for media organizations whose content is used.
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