Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
‘Is This How Layoffs Start?’ — How to Ease Your Employees’ Fears About AI
Small business AI succeeds or fails on trust, not technology. The counterintuitive first step is drawing lines around what stays human.
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AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
Wendy’s New CEO Has a Five-Point Plan to Get Back in the Burger Chain Fight — Here’s What’s in It
Bob Wright says Wendy’s chased cost savings over quality, and lost its No. 2 spot to Burger King. Now he’s rolling out a five-point fix.
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
OpenAI Shocked the World When Its AI Agents Hacked Another Company. Now, It’s Explaining How It Happened: ‘Pandora’s Box Is Open’
A 37-page report walks through exactly how OpenAI’s own models broke out of a testing environment and breached Hugging Face last month.
Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Plaud’s new ‘agentic’ earbuds are priced at $249.
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with…
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?
EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining. From a climate perspective, that’s pretty dismal, especially because the transportation sector is the single biggest source of greenhouse-gas emissions in the country. One thing that could help turn that around? Slate Auto’s new truck—a vehicle that seems…
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.