Agentic AI
Hugging Face: Autonomous AI agents should NOT be unleashed
"The history of nuclear close calls provides a sobering lesson about the dangers of ceding human control to autonomous systems..."
Jasper Hamill
openai
Elon Musk offers $100 billion to buy OpenAI, renames himself Harry Bōlz
"It’s time for OpenAI to return to a open-source, safety-focused force for good."
AGI
Altman's Law: OpenAI boss sets out three rules of AI economics
"The future will come at us in a way that is impossible to ignore and the long-term changes will be huge."
AI
Academics and industry leaders share wishlists for the Paris AI summit
"We must allow innovators to innovate, builders to build and developers to develop."
Elon Musk
Is Elon Musk trying to meme Gamergate back into existence?
The Edgelord-in-Chief has waded into yet another controversial issue and slammed the state of today's video games journalism industry.
robotics
Amazon prepares for the "next wave" of its robotics revolution
A glimpse of the automated future of e-commerce (and the risk of technological unemployment awaiting humans).
Crypto
Coinbase "clamps down on crypto payments to dark web drug dealers"
Crypto exchange takes steps which appear to be intended to stop people sending funds to criminals' accounts.
Existential Risk
Humanity faces "gradual disempowerment" rather than an AI apocalypse, researchers warn
Academics predict our species won't suffer an "abrupt takeover" by superintelligence but a slow lingering death from a thousand cuts.
Fintech
Money Machine: Satoshi's identity, Open Banking fears, IBM on GenAI and the real DOGE
The first edition of a newsletter sharing the latest news, insights and gossip in crypto, fintech and the financial services ecosystem.
security
Five Eyes cyber-agencies launch bid to secure edge devices
Global security chiefs warn of a "a relentless wave of intrusions" as they urge organisations to secure the edge.
EU
The EU AI Act is beginning to take force: How should organisations respond?
Find out which AI use cases pose a "unacceptable risk" and are now prohibited on the Continent as the controversial Act starts to bite.
security
Huge surge in number of CVEs exploited in the wild blamed on complex ecosystems
Researchers warn that 2024 was a "banner year" for threat actors, who are exploiting vulns at a dizzying speed.