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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

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What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Means for Enterprises
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What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Means for Enterprises

OpenAI and Hugging Face experienced a security incident that highlights the importance of cybersecurity practices for...

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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

Right-wing residents in Florida are protesting the expansion of AI data centers in their community, seeking a permanent...

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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

The Trump administration is debating policy approaches to address the growing capabilities of Chinese AI models. This...

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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations

The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic and found that all of them...

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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, argues that Chinese AI models pose no inherent danger, contributing to ongoing debate...

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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack has introduced a tool that estimates how much of a newsletter was written using AI, promoting transparency in...

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Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
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Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill

Nearly 200 US utility companies and data center developers have signed President Trump's 'rate payer protection pledge'...

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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack has launched an AI detection tool powered by Pangram that scans posts, notes, and comments to estimate how...

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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

A new malware specifically targets AI coding infrastructure, capable of stealing data, credentials, and executing...

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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

The U.S. Treasury Secretary announced potential sanctions against Chinese open-source AI models, alleging intellectual...

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Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated
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Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Deezer reported that over 50% of daily uploads on its platform are AI-generated music, with more than 90,000...

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Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
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Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing

Etsy's marketplace has deteriorated as mass-produced goods and AI-generated knockoffs flood the platform, driving away...

Wired AI
Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs.
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Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model to date on July 16, sparking policy debates in Washington...

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face have disclosed findings from a security incident that occurred during AI model evaluation,...

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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

David Sacks has resigned from his position as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), making...

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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over

Sony Music Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Udio, an AI music generator, claiming it infringed the copyright...

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Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure
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Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

The Trump administration is considering indirect measures to restrict Chinese AI models, including sanctions and...

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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan

The article discusses perspectives on AI development trajectories, comparing open versus closed approaches to AI...

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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’

Director Christopher Nolan criticizes AI as a 'Trojan horse,' using the metaphor of Greeks hidden inside to warn about...

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