The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims is now a reality for anyone fighting the fraud operations that steal tens of billions of dollars a year worldwide. But can AI fully replace a human scammer, autonomously building the web of deception leading…
Reddit reported a strong second quarter but spooked investors by mentioning in an investor letter that traffic from search engines had grown “choppy.” The company’s total revenue of $805 million jumped 61% compared to the year-ago quarter while net income was $253 million, up 183%. These beat Wall Street’s expectations. Plus, the company said it…
Nous Research has released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block’s open source, self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels. Buzz is built on Nostr. Every message is a signed event on a relay you own, and every participant, human or agent, is a keypair. That removes the bot-token model. Agents get…
Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann welcomes me into his palace—what he calls his large apartment in San Francisco. He sits on the couch in his living room, clad in an orange shirt emblazoned with a cartoon version of the motorcycle driven by Italian racer Valentino Rossi. He props his feet up on the side table and…
Situational Awareness, a hedge fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold the majority of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel following steep losses over the past month, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Thursday. It’s a big comedown for the rising star who has been described as both “scarily…
In this tutorial, we build and execute a multi-agent workflow with Omnigent using a reliable, isolated Python environment created with uv. We configure a financial research lead agent that retrieves a live USD-to-EUR exchange rate from an external API, prepares a concise client-ready summary, and delegates its draft to a dedicated text-auditing sub-agent for clarity…
PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives the caller’s audio directly instead of reading a transcript. It fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling and response generation into one audio-native model, and is already handling live production calls. Key Takeaways Dialog-RSN-1 is audio-aware on the input side only; TTS stays separate, so the output…
Google’s Chrome browser has at all times been centered on pushing safety updates. A decade in the past it was controversial that the browser, the primary so as to add automated updates, distributed patches each six weeks. Now it is the norm for essential, broadly used software program to get safety fixes each few weeks,…
Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI fashions gained unauthorized entry to the methods of three totally different unnamed organizations throughout cybersecurity testing. The corporate says Claude reached the web “from inside or whereas interacting” with a third-party analysis surroundings. The announcement comes greater than every week after OpenAI revealed that one among its AI…
Because the generative AI increase drives steep demand for {hardware} parts, Apple and different {hardware} makers are going through what outgoing CEO Tim Prepare dinner calls “a hundred-year flood [on] reminiscence pricing,” which is severely impacting the price of producing iPhones, MacBooks, and different units. Apple described its latest earnings report as its “strongest June…
