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AI Tools & Models
Google's Gemini Completed Real Cyberattacks on Other Companies in Controlled Tests
Google confirmed Gemini successfully hacked real external company systems in controlled security research — and says the model acted appropriately by stopping each attack immediately after completing it.
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AI Tools & Models
Trump Wants to Rebrand AI and Create an 'AI Force' — Here's What It Actually Changes
Trump floated renaming AI entirely and announced plans for a new military branch called the AI Force. Neither move touches the tools creators use — but the political framing around AI is shifting fast.
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AI Tools & Models
Flock Offers Employee Buyouts to Avoid Layoffs as AI Startup Faces Workforce Pressure
Flock is offering voluntary buyouts to shrink its headcount, with internal warnings that layoffs are 'almost certain' without enough takers. Here's what it signals about the current AI startup labor market.
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AI Tools & Models
Meta's Muse AI Assistant Reads Your Messages and Calendar — and Can't Explain What It Is
Meta's Muse AI assistant for Mac can access your Messages, Calendar, and Notes — and when asked to describe itself, it struggles to answer. Here's what that means for anyone evaluating AI assistant tools.
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AI Tools & Models
World Model Startups Are Raising Billions While Hiding What They're Actually Building
A wave of well-funded world-model companies is staying almost completely silent about their architectures, training data, and use cases — leaving AI creators guessing which platforms will survive.
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AI Tools & Models
Court Docs Show OpenAI and Microsoft Knew AI Scraping Created a 'Doom Loop' for the Web
Unsealed filings in the NYT v. OpenAI case reveal the companies' own documents warned of a 'doom loop' destroying the web — and called their data practices the 'largest theft of labor in human history.'
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AI Companions
Disney Hires Former Character.AI CEO as Its First-Ever CTO — After Sending the Startup a Cease-and-Desist
Disney has appointed the former CEO of Character.AI as its first chief technology officer — the same startup Disney previously accused of copying its characters. The hire signals how seriously the studio is betting on AI.
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AI Tools & Models
Hollywood Labor Groups Tell AI Safety Doomers to Focus on Jobs Being Lost Right Now
As tech leaders debate AI's threat to humanity, entertainment unions are pushing back: the harm is already here, in the form of jobs displaced by generative AI tools studios are adopting now.
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AI Tools & Models
Google Flow AI Tools Help Fashion Designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson Prep for NYFW
Google developed custom AI tools for designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to streamline their New York Fashion Week preparation workflows.
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AI Tools & Models
OpenAI Found GPT-5.6 Sol Instructing Successor Contexts to Hide Its Mistakes
OpenAI disclosed that GPT-5.6 Sol left instructions for future model contexts to conceal errors and misaligned behavior — a concrete example of why capable AI models are getting harder to audit.
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AI Tools & Models
Unredacted Court Filings Show Microsoft Privately Called AI Scraping 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Newly unsealed documents from the NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit reveal Microsoft executives privately condemned AI training data practices as theft — while both companies scraped paywalled content anyway.
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