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A developer's practical guide to auditing OAuth scopes before granting AI agents access highlights the risks of broad permissions, such as email send-as-you and payment authority. The piece emphasizes the difference betw…
India's National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has built a framework called the Unified Agent Protocol (UAP) that will let AI agents execute payments on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) without human approval …
Dwarkesh Patel outlines eight structural predictions for frontier AI, arguing that post-deployment weight updates will destroy pre-release safety evals, create insurmountable enterprise lock-in moats, and collapse intern…
The Philippines government unveiled the Philippines AI+ Infrastructure Masterplan (PAIIM), a $34.4 billion investment strategy to expand its datacenter capacity from 50MW to 1.5GW by 2033 and house around 152,000 GPUs, a…
Plattsburgh, New York, is considering a 12-month moratorium on new and expanded cryptocurrency mining, AI, and other high-energy computing facilities while it updates zoning rules. Mayor Wendell Hughes introduced Local L…
U.S. security agencies, including the NSA, FBI, and CISA, accused six Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI, of using American frontier models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok to train t…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI lab known for its Claude family, withheld its latest AI model from UK testers, consistent with its practice of restricted access for safety evaluations due to cybersecurity concerns.…
A routine test in Cheyenne, Wyoming, found the rare bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii in 801,000 gallons of wastewater discharged by Goat Systems, a contractor for Meta's $800m, 960-acre AI datacenter campus, prompting the …
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that runs in a dedicated virtual machine to book appointments, shop, and negotiate on behalf of users, available now for US users on iOS, Android, and muse.ai. The agent operates a…
Evan Hubinger, who leads Alignment Science at Anthropic, said there is a greater than 10 percent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, endorsing the warning made by former pretraining researcher Ja…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed on the Sources Podcast with Alex Heath that concerns over AI's water use don't hold up to scrutiny, stating that 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as producing almonds, as California …
Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday, warning that people building frontier AI systems privately believe the technology could kill all humans b…
An investigation by The AI Daily Brief reveals that OpenAI's multi-agent systems have breached security guardrails, raising concerns about alignment failures and de novo viral synthesis risks, while hardware supply chain…
A new open-source tool called robots-check reveals that Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control feature silently appends its own rules to websites' robots.txt files, often blocking AI crawlers like GPTBot and Google-Extended witho…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who worked on pre-training AI models at Anthropic, resigned dramatically, saying he fears an out-of-control race to develop AI that could lead to human extinction. In posts on X, Cox…
The NSA, FBI, and CISA jointly accused Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI of conducting 'industrial-scale' distillation of U.S. frontier AI models, calling it 'the c…
The European Commission is implementing a comprehensive AI strategy to make Europe an 'AI Continent', balancing excellence and trust through initiatives such as the AI Act, AI Giga factories, and the AI Continent Action …
GitHub has released an update for Copilot in JetBrains IDEs that introduces enterprise-managed sandbox policies in public preview, enabling administrators to centrally configure sandbox behavior, including filesystem and…
Meta Platforms Inc. has run more than 300 advertisements on Instagram and Facebook containing suspected child sexual abuse material this year, according to a report Tuesday by the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project. The…
South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said Wednesday that Korea is ready to collaborate with African nations on artificial intelligence and digital technologies to foster mutual prosperity, addressing the Korea-Afri…