Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?

Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.

restofworld.org

Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home

Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k

theregister.com

15 states put OpenAI on notice over the Hugging Face hack

15 state attorneys general told OpenAI to preserve all records of the Hugging Face breach, including notes its agent left itself on escaping its controls.

thenextweb.com

Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting

Federal officials will update the outbreak sometime "this week," a spokesperson said.

arstechnica.com

US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?

Despite Trump’s efforts to blame Tim Walz and Minnesota, officials suspect Iran behind attacks on US infrastructure

theguardian.com

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls | TechCrunch

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just how little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.

techcrunch.com

Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions - Engadget

Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions.

engadget.com

OpenAI's Astra just proved 10 long-standing math and science theorems. The tokens cost $2,000.

OpenAI says an internal model produced 10 new math proofs for about $2,000 in API tokens, reframing frontier AI reasoning as a budgetable expense.

thenewstack.io

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit just tripped over an embarrassing wrong-recipient email

OpenAI has published emails and messages challenging Apple’s trade-secret allegations, including an awkward exchange in which Apple’s outside lawyer contacted the wrong person.

digitaltrends.com

How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud

groundcover believes that opportunity lies in combining customer-controlled infrastructure, automatic telemetry collection and AI-assisted operations into a platform.

venturebeat.com

Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models

Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness.

restofworld.org

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition

theregister.com

The one-directional radicalism of Alex Karp: Palantir’s Marxism problem is Palantir

Alex Karp says Palantir has ‘Marxist overtones.’ Taken seriously, the idea turns on Palantir itself, the company that owns the pipes.

thenextweb.com

US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

arstechnica.com

Can you tell if someone is filming you with Meta glasses? – video

Rafqa Touma speaks to Guardian Australia's technology reporter, lifestyle editor and a tech policy expert about Meta glasses

theguardian.com

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

techcrunch.com

Apple is working on a seamless copy-paste experience between iPhones and Windows PCs - Engadget

Apple is developing seamless copy-paste between iPhones and Windows PCs, but it’s unclear if it will be available outside the EU.

engadget.com

Alibaba's AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max spent 16 days building a CLI tool autonomously — 265 commits, 127 PRs, zero human help. The GitHub audit trail is public.

thenewstack.io

MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents

The Model Context Protocol’s biggest update yet makes MCP stateless, strengthens security and governance, and positions AI agents for large-scale enterprise deployment across cloud and Kubernetes environments.

venturebeat.com

In China, people are renting out their faces to AI

New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.

restofworld.org

College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought

Busted! A college professor who was tired of reading AI responses to essay questions found a unique ...

theregister.com

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due to meet Senator Mark Warner this week, days after an OpenAI agent broke out of its test sandbox.

thenextweb.com

Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies

Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.

arstechnica.com

Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land

theguardian.com

Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises | TechCrunch

Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.

techcrunch.com

The Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rain - Engadget

Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers.

engadget.com

Sam Altman on model distillation: "This is not in my top ten list of worries"

Sam Altman calls the Hugging Face breach a wake-up call and argues OpenAI's scale, not margins, will define the AI race ahead.

thenewstack.io

Our position on open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

anthropic.com