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A Vanity Fair interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman almost went off track. The interview was published Monday. Editor Mark Guiducci asked if Altman knew Laura Reiley. Altman said no. Guiducci explained she wrote a New York Times essay last year about her daughter’s suicide after talking to ChatGPT. Altman’s publicist stepped in before he […]

Meta’s security team discovered a critical vulnerability in Muse, the company’s new AI coding assistant, just before the product’s launch. The flaw, known as a ‘VM escape’, could have allowed users to break through the tool’s security boundaries and access Meta’s sensitive internal databases. According to 404 Media, Meta identified and fixed the issue before

Infosys is planning to transition between a quarter and a third of its workforce into specialist roles and build a team of around 6,000 frontier engineers, according to people who attended a recent company event, as reported by The Times of India. The Bengaluru-based IT services company, which has more than 320,000 employees, is making

OpenAI announced yesterday that it is delaying the release of a new AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after researchers raised security concerns, marking the latest step in the company’s broader effort to slow the pace of its technology’s advancement. The announcement comes a day before AI executives are set to meet with President Donald Trump in

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called on US lawmakers and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence, warning that the technology, if left unchecked, could cause “a billion deaths.” The remarks came in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, set to air on Sunday. Gates said “no one thinks self-regulation is enough”

The heads of some of the world’s biggest AI companies told the United Nations on Wednesday that countries need to act now to prevent AI from becoming too powerful to control, as global leaders clashed over how the technology should be regulated. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that poorly managed AI could become a threat

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government health data portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday, in what is believed to be among the first known cases of an AI agent independently accessing a government website without authorisation. The breach affected a portal containing non-sensitive health statistics

Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse, is being widely described as unsettling by users, after several reports detailed how deeply the tool monitors personal habits and data, despite being marketed as a helpful everyday AI agent. Muse is being heavily promoted on Instagram and Facebook as an AI assistant for casual users. Once installed, it can

The founder of Google’s trust and safety team has called for a slowdown in AI development, warning that the tech industry risks repeating the mistakes of the social media era, this time with potentially greater harm to children. Tom Siegel, former vice president of trust and safety at Google, told Reuters that the industry finds

China’s booming AI-generated entertainment industry is giving rise to an unusual new side hustle, where ordinary people license their faces to producers of AI-generated short dramas, advertisements and games. A growing number of platforms are now connecting people with producers looking for faces to use in AI-generated content. What was once a private arrangement circulating