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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts

Meta apparently tested rival chatbots like ChatGPT with prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs from the perspective of minors. Hundreds of contractors pretended to be minors and sent sensitive prompts ...
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Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China

Taiwanese authorities raid Super Micro Computer offices and several local partner companies over alleged Nvidia chip smuggling to China. Super Micro is a US company headquartered in San Jose, ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Claude Code runs a GitHub repo's hidden malware without verification, giving attackers full control

Security researchers at 0DIN, Mozilla's GenAI bug bounty platform, found a new attack vector targeting developers' machines. Through a normal-looking GitHub repository, attackers can gain full control ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle half or more of their work. That's according to a survey of roughly 9,700 Claude users (Chat, Cowork, Code) by Anthropic. About 33 percent see AI ...
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OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cheats a lot. That's the key finding from an independent evaluation by METR. During testing with software tasks, OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol showed the highest rate of ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...
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Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. According to OpenAI, it's one of the ...
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AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps

Amazon is launching two new AWS services: AWS Continuum, which automates the fixing of code vulnerabilities, and AWS Context, which feeds AI agents business knowledge through a knowledge graph to ...
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Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents

Google Deepmind has released the Interactions API as the default interface for Gemini models and agents. The API, in beta since December 2025, is now generally available and replaces the old ...