A London startup building the training grounds for Europe’s autonomous weapons has come out of stealth with $30mn. It is one of the region’s largest defence-tech seed rounds this year. Agon is not building the weapons themselves. It is building the infrastructure that trains them: a synthetic combat arena for AI-powered drones, missiles and uncrewed […]This story continues at The Next Web
NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients’ medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff at Palantir, the US data-analytics firm, can view identifiable patient data inside part of the new Federated Data Platform. The admission followed a request from the National Data Guardian, the statutory […]This story continues at The Next Web
Wiz researchers found a single credential that could unlock every database running on Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB. They named it the Cosmos Master Key. And the vulnerability hunter that helped find it was not entirely human. Microsoft has patched the flaw, disclosed on Thursday and dubbed CosmosEscape. It found no evidence anyone exploited it beyond […]This story continues at The Next Web
The AI necklace that a chunk of New York wanted gone is back, and this time it talks. Friend, the pendant that listens to your day and pipes up with commentary, has re-launched with a speaker so it can reply out loud. It also costs twice as much. The original Friend messaged you like a […]This story continues at The Next Web
Steven Bartlett has built one of the world’s biggest podcasts on the idea that the right people, obsessively managed, make the machine. Now four of those people have walked out the door. The star host of “The Diary of a CEO” has lost four core staffers in five months, Business Insider reported. The exits are […]This story continues at The Next Web
ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot to face Europe’s toughest platform rules. The European Commission plans to place OpenAI’s chatbot and the gaming platform Roblox under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act. The designation could come as soon as August. The move was first reported by Bloomberg, citing a person […]This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. Senior engineers called the results “catastrophically expensive.” The cases were laid out at an internal meeting and first reported by the […]This story continues at The Next Web
The man who wrote the defining case for the AI boom just got wiped out betting on it. Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has been forced to sell off its portfolio of public stocks after steep losses. Ken Griffin’s Citadel has bought the lot. The collapse was first […]This story continues at The Next Web
Google DeepMind wants one AI brain to run every robot, and it just taught that brain to use its whole body. It has released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of models that can control a humanoid from its feet to its fingertips. The system can also coordinate several machines at once and adapt to a […]This story continues at The Next Web
LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” option to its post menu, letting users flag content they think a machine wrote, 404 Media reported. The button sits under the three-dot […]This story continues at The Next Web
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