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300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tuesday. Those making the trip include Condé Nast...
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DoorDash Air unveils a drone delivery system, and cannot yet fly it out of sight (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind DoorDash Air and will begin pilot deliveries in Northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes. Manna, which flew more than 300,000 deliveries from Dublin and Cork, paused Irish operations in June for want of a national policy and is building a factory in...
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Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business (opens Wired in a new tab)
“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.
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SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk’s SpaceX...
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There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI (opens Wired in a new tab)
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
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As AI Reshapes the SOC Career Ladder, Satisfaction Rises for 91%, but Entry Gets Harder for Nearly Half (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
New Swimlane research underscores a paradox: While AI detection and response is essential to giving defenders an edge, one in four security pros say AI limits their skill development.
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Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy’s $20bn F/A-XX fighter (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Boeing will build the US Navy’s next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The...
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it for alerts can...
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Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Meta’s communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday. “It can’t read your Messages unless you do...
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Nissan wants hybrids to lead by 2030. In Britain a hybrid took an electric car’s factory slot (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Nissan has told Automotive News it wants hybrids and extended-range models to be its primary powertrain in North and Latin America by 2030. In Britain the same strategy is already built: a £170M hybrid Kicks is going into the Sunderland slot promised to an electric Qashqai that Nissan stopped...
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America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the launch in Washington to set up the...
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Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way...
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OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users tried to extract its AI reasoning (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume. It spiked on 24 and 25 July, with...
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Samsung’s new tablets arrive more expensive, and its tracker lasts longer (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S12+ and S12 Ultra reach Europe on 7 October at 1,299 and 1,539 euros, roughly 180 euros above the model the first replaces, against a 100 dollar rise in America. The entry-level 11-inch tablet was not updated, which is what the memory shortage has been doing to cheap devices...
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CScale exits stealth with $145m to stop laser failures stalling AI (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
CScale, a Palo Alto startup building optical interconnect for AI data centres, has come out of stealth with $145m in Series C funding. The round takes its total funding to $188m, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Atreides Management led the round, with Valor Equity Partners and Premji...
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Oura postpones its $2.2bn IPO, citing market uncertainty (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Oura has postponed its Nasdaq IPO, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market”. The Finnish-founded smart ring maker said so in a statement on Tuesday, a week after it launched the offering. It said it is postponing “despite strong demand”, and gave no new date. Oura had planned to sell 50 million...
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OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI from accessing computer systems without...
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Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable (opens The Next Web in a new tab)
Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “Why I’m joining Cognition”. “There are real safety and security issues raised by AI, but they can be fixed. It’s time to...
