xAI shipped a new mode called /goal inside Grok Build, its terminal coding agent. The feature targets long-running, autonomous task execution. You hand the agent a larger implementation task, then step back. Most coding sessions require back-and-forth execution and verification. You prompt, the agent acts, and you verify each step. /goal changes that loop. The…
OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs. “Patch the Planet,” (which is a not-so-subtle allusion to “Hack the Planet,” the iconic catch phrase from the 1995 movie Hackers) will see OpenAI team up with the security company Trail of Bits to…
A deadly weekend crash through which a Tesla plowed via a brick dwelling in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old lady, set off alarms in regards to the firm’s driver help expertise. By Monday afternoon, Tesla was preventing again towards the framing. The crash occurred Friday evening when a Tesla Mannequin 3 pushed by Michael Butler…
Meta is pausing a divisive worker monitoring program after an inner safety challenge uncovered probably delicate knowledge collected by the initiative to different staff. “We have now fastidiously designed this program with privateness safeguards and whereas we’ve no indication presently that any knowledge was improperly accessed by Meta workers, we’re pausing it whereas we examine,”…
On Friday, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny made an look at Meta’s @Scale convention and, surprisingly, the primary query from the viewers was about loops. “Are loops the following hype cycle,” the questioner requested, “or are they for actual?” Cherny’s reply was an emphatic, “Sure, they’re for actual.” “Two years in the past, we wrote…
Meta left probably delicate info collected from worker laptops accessible to anybody inside the corporate, based on an inner safety discover seen by WIRED and three present staff acquainted with the problem. The information, which was collected as a part of a divisive initiative to coach synthetic intelligence fashions, is believed to incorporate keystrokes, mouseclicks,…
Tata Electronics, an Indian electronics and semiconductor producer and a key provider to Apple and Tesla, amongst different tech giants, confirmed a knowledge breach weeks after information purportedly obtained from the corporate appeared on a hacker discussion board. The affirmation comes because the hacker discussion board itemizing claims to supply greater than 630GB of information…
As fears about AI hacking capabilities develop, OpenAI on Monday made a slew of cybersecurity-focused announcements, together with an improved model of its limited-access security-specialized mannequin GPT-5.5-Cyber, expanded worldwide work with governments and different establishments to present them “trusted entry” to the corporate’s newest cybersecurity-focused fashions, and releasing its Codex Safety scanner as an app…
Amazon is planning to extend the footprint of its new conversational AI assistant Alexa+ to India, and is inviting customers within the nation to check out a Hindi-language model. The corporate despatched out emails to some clients, which had been seen by TechCrunch, asking customers to fill out a kind in Hindi by June 22…
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