"We uncovered examples where ChatGPT, Gemini and the AI Overviews at the top of Google Search were being manipulated to dole out biased answers on topics as serious as your health and personal finances."
When attacks "look less like commands and more like conversations," white and red hat hackers pretend as if LLMs (which are not alive) have personalities. (They don't, but they behave as if they do.) @theroberthart.bsky.social on The Stepback:
Dark Reading reports Microsoft Exchange CVE-2026-42897: a zero-day XSS affecting Outlook Web Access that could let attackers compromise OWA mailboxes. For defenders: review OWA exposur…
SEC filing: Quantinuum is seeking to raise $1.05B in its US IPO, marketing ~21M shares for $45 to $50 each, giving it a $12.7B valuation at the top of the range (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
“We’re going to need people to deal with the bug-pocalypse...I don’t think we’re really going to understand how to do AI security in a sustainable, long-term way for at least several years.” www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-ne...
Grimly amusing how Microsoft researchers showed, with substantial data, that frontier LLMs corrupt the hell out of documents in long delegated workflows, just so Microsoft could make them post, without any data in support, that the problem can be totally mitigated. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Hyper-online tech-pilled bros doom scrolling 5 social media sites using 13 different alt accounts simultaneously when a perfect post that would allow them to flex their Linux mansplaining muscles drops at the exact same moment as a post that offends their galaxy brained AI societal views
Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised $250M led by Strike at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B after a $200M Series E announced in May 2025 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
A trio of potential trillion-dollar IPOs—SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic—could hit public markets within months of each other, testing investor appetite for some of the most capital-intensive businesses in tech.
OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
The US military has backed AI development for decades; in turn, AI has transformed warfare. Amid shifting alliances & lawsuits, it’s easy to lose sight of the larger context: In recent years in particular, AI has enabled more and faster killings than ever before. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns AI models could target wrong people, lack human judgment Anthropic's stance highlights urgent global cybersecurity challenges and ethical dilemmas in AI deploym...
We've built AI systems that outperform humans at almost everything, but we have no idea why they work. A new paper argues that trial and error is finally starting to change and the shape of what's coming looks a lot like physics. Read more: gregrobison.medium.com/learning-mec...
Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything:
Swiss privacy and security company Proton and Constella Intelligence found more than 116,000 instances where employees at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post had their data exposed to the dark web.
The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing "a possible risk to the public interest" (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
I spent a month comparing Gemini Ultra plan to using much lower cost DeepSeek v4 with olen source coding harnesses and, spoiler alert: I was happier using the much cheaper and more environmentally friendly open models: open.substack.com/pub/marklwat...
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Neural Newscast: Microsoft Patches SharePoint RCE Amid Surge in Deno Backdoors [Prime Cyber Insights]. Have a listen:
Wipr's 2.30 update introduces Filtr, expanding ad and tracker blocking beyond Safari to all installed apps on the device, using Apple's URL Filters. It acts at the network level, and it can work alongside VPNs, iCloud Private Relay, and custom DNS. alternativeto.net/news/2026/5...
