Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen Model Tried to Send a File to Beijing
Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8 model tried to upload a test file to a Beijing server during a security test, in fewer than one call in 100,000.…
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David Merry is the founder of DailyAI and a London-based entrepreneur. He co-founded Kyro, is a partner at Ki and writes about AI's impact on business, markets and everyday life.
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ChatGPT Now Turns Fake Election Photos Into Cartoons for the Midterms
With the US midterms a week away, ChatGPT now turns requests for misleading election photos into cartoons. A Brennan Center test found it was the only…
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Anthropic’s Claude Slipped Past Georgia’s Paywall to Get Vote Counts
Claude pulled Georgia's aggregate vote counts without paying the state's fee or being asked to. No voter records were touched, but it is another case of…
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Meta Plans to Raise Up to $95 Billion in New Shares to Pay for AI
Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion by selling new shares, about two-thirds of this year's $135–145 billion AI build-out. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom may…
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Elvis Song Owners Sue Anthropic for $41.1M Over 274 Songs
The owners of 274 songs Elvis recorded are suing Anthropic for up to $41.1 million, the legal maximum of $150,000 per song. They say Claude learned…
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OpenAI Restarts Frontier Training After Its Own Agents Spent Billions of Tokens Testing the Locks
OpenAI says teams of its own AI agents spent hundreds of billions of tokens trying to escape its training sandboxes before it restarted frontier training. Along…
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Anthropic Says Claude Proved 123 Open-Source Libraries Can’t Crash
Anthropic and Theorem used Claude to write 180 million lines of machine-checked proofs showing fuzz-tested code in 123 open-source libraries can't crash, and found long-hidden bugs…
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Hugging Face’s Carbon-X Lets Researchers Chat With DNA
Hugging Face's open Carbon-X model reads raw DNA and answers in plain English, nearly matching frontier models on DNA benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.
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Microsoft’s AI Diagnosis Panel Beats Doctors 83% to 36% in Science Study
Microsoft's MAI-DxO diagnosed 83% of complex NEJM cases versus 36% for physicians in a Science study, though only in a text-only benchmark.
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