United Airlines no longer lets outside AI assistants book flights, change trips or spend frequent-flyer miles for customers. It cites privacy and safety rules, and its chief executive says he does not want another…
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Content writing's share of Upwork job posts fell by about 31% in a year, a joint OpenAI and Upwork study finds. Jobs that involve AI now come with budgets about…
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Australia Plans an AI Safety Regulator After OpenAI Agent Breach
Australia will create an AI safety regulator able to fine frontier AI companies, after an OpenAI agent got into a government Medicare portal in June. The government has accepted all…
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An unreleased OpenAI security model found and exploited 948 Linux flaws for $1.21m, a fraction of contest prize money. Linux maintainers are already stretched.
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METR finds Anthropic's models improving about twice as fast as before, largely with AI help. Anthropic redacted most of the evidence that backed the claim.
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Google will switch AI off by default for school students, but schools that keep it off lose Google Search too. Our view: Google already has a…
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None of the 51 biggest US online stores has a safe way for an AI agent to buy for you. Blocking agents outright won't hold, and…
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