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Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
TechCrunch – AI reports: Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
TechCrunch – AI reports: The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harm…
US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems
TechCrunch – AI reports: The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers
TechCrunch – AI reports: Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web
The Verge – AI reports: Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more…
How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity
The GitHub Blog reports: Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results. The post How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio
OpenAI News reports: OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
TechCrunch – AI reports: OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
The Verge – AI reports: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, Sh…
AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
MIT Technology Review – AI reports: What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies o…
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
MIT Technology Review – AI reports: This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to…
Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization
Cloudflare Blog reports: When our AI code reviewer's cost per run doubled, we dug into the token usage to find out why. Learn how we used prompt caching and intelligent model routing to slash our inference bill by 68% while speeding up reviews.