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It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, according to research by Israeli security company Gambit. But the attacks have been going on for much longer. Whoever is responsible used open-source AI harnesses to mount the attack. Gambit has identified three of these: Strix for vulnerability search, Cairn for autonomous end-to-end exploitation, and Hermes to orchestrate the campaign. The attacks have proved to be highly lucrative, with 600,000 active credit card [...]
Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately for OpenAI, it found many of them were using AI to train the AI, so not providing a human touch at all, according to a report in 404 Media. The company has subsequently fired many of the contractors, although 404 Media didn’t reveal the number. [...]
Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to make those capabilities look less like separate tools and more like different ways of getting work done through a unified experience. The end goal is to enable users to describe what they want to accomplish without choosing a mode themselves, and with Copilot routing the task to Chat, Cowork, Code or [...]
Adobe is preparing for a future where users increasingly interact with its software through AI assistants, rather than always going directly to its applications. That’s the idea behind its expanded integration with Anthropic’s Claude, as well as the first connector for Google’s Gemini, announced Thursday. The updated Claude integration adds new ways for users to interact with Creative Cloud applications via text prompts, with 80 “tools” available across applications such as Acrobat Photoshop, Premiere, Express, and Lightroom. That’s up from the initial 50 at launch in April. The Adobe plugin lets users take actions across various Creative Cloud apps, such [...]
On October 1, Google’s first test satellite for Project Suncatcher is set to be launched. This is the next step in the company’s plan to build AI data centers in Earth’s orbit, according to The New York Times. The idea is, among other things, to harness solar energy in space instead of building ever-larger data centers on Earth. The first satellite, MVP, is about the size of a refrigerator and was built by the satellite company Planet Labs. On board are four of Google’s TPU accelerators, which will be used to run Gemini in space. MVP is equipped with solar [...]
I once had a friend who gave $1,000 to an online fraudster who claimed to be a tax assessor. My own father (bless his soul) once managed to hand over several hundred pounds to a lawyer from Africa promising to send him funds. We know it happens. We know people impersonate trusted entities to trick us into giving them our money. It’s a scam, one that’s taking place at every level of digital existence. Apple is here to help. Yet another great feature new to iOS 27, Apple’s new scam-prevention tool is a welcome intervention, giving individuals and businesses another line of defense against social [...]
The 7,000 km (4,350 mile) cable, called Petal, will connect the US and France. Meta is partnering with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries to build it, and working with French telecommunications company Orange to coordinate the landing of the cable on the French coast. Petal will have more than double the capacity of today’s fastest transoceanic cables. Last November, AWS laid plans for a 320 Tbit/s cable between the US and Ireland, while a cable connecting Australia and the US, announced in January this year, will deliver 400 terabits per second. The need for greater data connectivity has prompted a [...]
Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live Summit. Some Google observers have speculated that this could be as early as October. Kavukcuoglu recently replaced DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis as head of the Google business unit. The launch of Gemini 4 may lay to rest concerns about the delayed release of Gemini 3.5 Pro, which Google was originally [...]
AI PCs that cut token costs? That may appeal to enterprises. A new breed of agentic AI PCs promises to do exactly that. The powerful laptops can cut token costs by completing AI work locally instead of sending it to expensive LLMs in the cloud. HP’s newly announced ZBook Ultra G3a mobile workstation and upcoming laptops from other PC makers have powerful GPUs and large memory pools designed for AI and graphics. The ZBook Ultra G3a uses an AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro processor, while laptops from other PC makers will feature Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip. Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs have [...]
Even as they continue to release ever more capable competing models in a regular cadence, the top AI companies are joining forces to set AI safety standards. According to The Information, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are reportedly working together to create a body tentatively called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA). It would operate independently of government control, and set guidelines around risk assessment, testing, and pre-release review practices for frontier AI models. Sources close to the matter say the goal is to officially launch the initiative in early 2027. The news comes in the same week as the [...]