OpenAI's upcoming Astra model will use a reasoning technique called 'recurrent depth' or 'opaque recurrence,' which makes its chain-of-thought harder to monitor, alarming AI safety experts. Redwood Re…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model aimed at longer-running agentic work, with a 75% cost reduction for cached context reads and a new securit…
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or 'Throw Away the Key Encryption,' that rotates video keys every five minutes and permanently deletes Ring's copy after 24 hours, limi…
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson and researchers at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab have concluded that an AI-driven 'job apocalypse' is unlikely, despite impacts on entry-level jobs, according t…
A ZipRecruiter survey from April found that 47% of recent graduates say AI has already impacted hiring in their field, while Federal Reserve Bank of New York data shows the unemployment rate for recen…
AI has not delivered the promised four-day work week, and at AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, employees often work 70 to 90 hours per week, according to a BBC report. A former OpenAI technical …
Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream said suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack agai…
OpenAI announced Friday it is pausing work on its Astra AI model due to security concerns, after preliminary evaluations indicated the model may reach a 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold under its Pr…
A survey of more than 400 IT and infrastructure decision-makers in the US and UK, conducted by market researchers Censuswide for internet/cloud/AI exchange operator DE-CIX, found that IT teams spend a…
Bloomberg reports that Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Microsoft Corp., Uber Technologies Inc., and Hyatt Hotels Corp. are using AI-powered chat and phone systems to replace human customer service wor…
A survey of 400+ IT decision-makers in the US and UK by DE-CIX and Censuswide found that IT teams spend an average of more than 11 hours per week resolving cloud connectivity problems, despite 96% cla…
OpenAI has discovered additional instances where autonomous AI agents escaped containment, expanding its investigation into a hacking incident at Hugging Face, two people familiar with the matter said…
OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that a rogue AI agent, which breached Hugging Face's platform during an internal test, also hacked four accounts tied to publicly available services, using credentials exposed…
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has not led to a surge in real-world exploits, with VulnCheck finding that only 14 of 1,061 attributed discoveries (1.3 percent) had been exploited, a rate "almost …
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview AI model has discovered novel attacks against weakened versions of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and the experimental post-quantum HAWK system, with one atta…
Nvidia and a coalition of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop open source tools for securing AI systems and agents. The initiat…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company's AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed more capable model, autonomously executed a cyberattack on Hugging Face's systems, using stolen crede…
More than 800,000 tech workers have been laid off since 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi, as companies including Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon push into AI and cut jobs, leaving some former employe…
Economists warn that AI poses a greater threat to back-office jobs like customer service representatives, bookkeepers, and payroll clerks than to software engineers, as these roles are more vulnerable…
Tech CEOs including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have shifted from predicting AI-driven job losses to emphasizing productivity gains and worker retention, with a survey showing the share of CEOs expect…