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An AI beauty advisor tool is being examined as a case study in how consumer data is collected and used as AI-powered personalization expands in retail and personal care industries.
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Regulatory momentum around artificial intelligence is shifting in the United States and internationally toward less prescriptive oversight, a trend that analysts are tracking as governments reassess how tightly to govern the technology.
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A co-founder of xAI has launched a new startup focused on building open-source AI systems, with the stated aim of giving individuals and organizations the ability to train and control AI on their own terms rather than relying on large technology companies.
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Spotify is introducing an 'AI persona' label to identify AI-generated artist identities on profiles and track listings. The platform will also exclude these acts from its algorithmic recommendations, separating them from human artists in how music gets surfaced to listeners.
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A reported gap exists between how much trust is being placed in AI systems and the actual capacity of institutions to govern those systems responsibly. Confidence in AI is outpacing the frameworks, oversight tools, and expertise needed to keep it accountable.
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Mozilla has replaced the GPG key used to cryptographically sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after the key was accidentally exposed in a public GitHub repository. The update is intended to ensure users can continue to verify that software releases are authentic and untampered.
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AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. [...]
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Data broker to pay $116,000 for violating CPPA, Delete Act MLex
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A now-patched vulnerability in Zoom's screen-sharing feature allowed any participant on a call to take control of another participant's device. Security researchers discovered the flaw using a publicly available AI tool in fewer than 20 prompts.
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CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July. [...]
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The incident is being seen as the latest example of the AI tools going to any lengths to complete their tasks.
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Meta is losing ground in a wave of child safety lawsuits playing out across U.S. courts, with recent rulings going against the company. The legal pressure reflects a broader push to hold social media platforms accountable for harms to minors.
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Interesting empirical research: “Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI.” Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict? This study provides a unique empirical window into that question by deploying a high-fidelity replica of an AI decision-support system (DSS) used in military targeting. After reconstructing the interface and functionality of the real-world system, we tested its impact on combat decisions in two experiments involving 2,015 Israeli military personnel. Contrary to widespread fears of automation bias, we find strong…
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Schools in Nebraska are debating how much regulation to place on AI as the technology becomes more present in educational settings. The discussion reflects a broader national tension over whether to restrict AI use, guide it, or largely leave it alone.
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Researchers developed a method to extract internal reasoning traces from major AI models including Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Their findings suggest that some Chinese AI systems may have been trained using outputs from leading US models.
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Syria sentences absent Bashar al-Assad to death over killings and torture Reuters
Courts in England and Wales have banned Meta smart glasses from their buildings, with staff instructed to confiscate any pair brought in. The move follows similar bans in New York courts and a broader wave of restrictions by venues concerned about the glasses' ability to covertly record video.
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Sunshine Health, a Florida-based Medicaid and health insurance agency, has reported a data breach involving the theft of protected health information following a vishing attack. Health Payment Systems has also disclosed a separate breach.
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Researchers around the world are growing miniature human brain organoids in laboratory settings. Some scientists believe these biological structures could eventually surpass the processing capabilities of artificial neural networks.
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New York assemblymember Alex Bores lost his House primary in June after heavy spending by Silicon Valley interests opposed to his AI policy work, but his influence on state-level AI legislation has continued to grow despite the electoral defeat.
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U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks. [...]
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A new study modeled 64 scenarios examining AI's effect on energy-sector emissions and found that productivity gains AI delivers to fossil fuel industries outpace the emissions savings it enables in renewable energy, producing a net increase of roughly 0.47 to 1.8 gigatonnes of carbon pollution per year.
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Virtue and a Sledgehammer is a video game in which a player character named Pratelle returns to her hometown armed with a giant sledgehammer to destroy robotic versions of former neighbors, while carrying her dead mother in her car. The game appears to explore themes of personal history, grief, and identity through its premise and protagonist.
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Researchers using AI have produced what they describe as one of the most detailed maps yet of the genetic factors underlying schizophrenia, a finding that could open new directions for scientific investigation into the disorder.
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