Wednesday’s episode of the Musk v. Altman trial kicked off with a unique proposition: OpenAI wanted to bring its ass into the courtroom, and lay it bare before the jury. It’s a good thing lady justice wears that blindfold. A lawyer for Sam Altman’s AI behemoth, Bradley Wilson, approached US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers…
The US Department of Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Defense Research and Development Canada, is looking to send autonomous drones and vehicles along the US-Canada border this fall, testing which products can stream surveillance video and sensor data between the two countries using commercial 5G networks. A new DHS call for participants frames the…
Malware research group vx-underground, which says it has the largest collection of malware source code, said in a post on X that its archive of data amounts to about 30 terabytes. A reply by Bernardo Quintero, founder of VirusTotal, an online service that scans files for malware across multiple antivirus engines at once, said his…
The ultimate stragglers testified on Wednesday within the Musk v. Altman trial. The witnesses generated few waves, apart from the revelation that Microsoft has to this point spent over $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI. Fairly than concentrate on that, I needed to carry you a candid statement that my colleague Maxwell Zeff and…
As LLM-powered applications move into production — and as AI agents take on more consequential tasks like browsing the web, writing and executing code, and interacting with external services — safety moderation has quietly become one of the most operationally expensive parts of the stack. Most developers who’ve deployed a production LLM system know the…
With the tech trade singularly targeted on AI fashions, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good 12 months. The corporate could quickly pull forward of its principal competitor, because it appears to lift tens of billions of {dollars} in a funding spherical that might put its valuation at some $950 billion (OpenAI was valued at $854…
By the time a company’s legal team finishes drafting its generative AI acceptable use policy, a meaningful percentage of its engineers, analysts, and product managers have already moved past it. Not deliberately. Not maliciously. Just practically. This is the core dynamic of what the industry now calls shadow AI: the unauthorized, ungoverned use of AI…
Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agentic era. In a live-streamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known best for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a new developer platform that extends the capabilities of its custom AI agents, connects with external agents, and allows teams to build automated multi-step workflows that can pull…
In the technology world, we often talk about “inflection points” as if they are common occurrences. They aren’t. Most companies spend decades searching for one, only to miss the turn when it finally arrives. But today, AMD didn’t just meet a turn; they executed a high-speed drift through it, emerging on the other side as…
Building AI sustainably seems like a pipe dream as tech giants that previously made promises to cut emissions have been racing to build out massive data centers powered by fossil fuels. The rush to build out AI at all costs has been reinforced by the Trump administration, which is also rolling back environmental protections. Despite…
