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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

Nagi1 day ago

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OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents.

Surya1 day ago

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Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny.

Manishankar1 day ago

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AI's Governability Gap Widens Across Four Fronts

Four recent stories show the same pattern: AI capabilities keep outrunning the institutions, policies and oversight meant to govern them, and US users absorb the risk.

Hemeswari21 hours ago · 5 min read

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AI Is Moving In, and the Friction Is Showing

This week's stories all point to the same shift: AI is being wired into physical labs, corporate workflows, everyday tools and local politics, and integration is the hard part.

Manishankar1 day ago · 4 min read

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The Agent Wars Are Really a Fight Over Who Sets the Rules

Four stories about AI agents point to one contest: not who ships the best assistant, but who decides what agents may do on their own, and who monitors them.

Jaysurya3 days ago · 5 min read