The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…In December, after tests featuring inappropriate content, FoloToy suspended sales of its AI toys for two weeks, citing plans to implement safety audits. OpenAI informed PIRG it was “yanking the cord on…
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Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI’s Models to Train Its Own
…Kratsios said in a post on X that the “US government is committed to the free and fair development of AI technologies across a competitive ecosystem.” American AI labs have used each…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
…In recent weeks, advocacy groups including a leading US teachers’ union, AI safety researchers, and environmental organizations operating near SpaceX facilities have called on investors to think twice before buying shares in…
Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
…concerns about the safety of new public model Claude Fable 5 resulted in Anthropic pulling the product off the market entirely. But security experts point out that AI models with advanced capabilities…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…Access Is the New Bottleneck Commercial low-Earth orbit fleets like Planet Labs and Maxar operate differently from government-owned systems—and access is the main constraint. Governments receive priority tasking, while…
Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps
…The Instants app is governed by the same guidelines as the main Instagram app. “All the safety and privacy protections built into Instagram apply to Instants, whether you're on Instagram or…
China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
…Sam Lyman, the head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and the author of the report, said that he first started looking into the issue following a public AI safety conversation…
SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
…The company is one of a number of chatbot makers that is being scrutinized by regulators as governments grapple with the societal impacts of generative AI tools. Got a Tip? Are you…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
…If your government tends to be a little too authoritarian, it could be used for bad things.” LeCun has grappled with issues related to AI safety and security before. He notes that…
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
…As cybercriminals and offensive hackers ramp up their use of AI to exploit vulnerabilities and develop hacking tools, the technology is also radically changing the dynamics of how security researchers hunt for…