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With AB 1856, California lawmakers could have dramatically narrowed the harmful age-bracketing regime set to go into effect next year. Instead, the bill extends those requirements to browsers and websites. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on AI agent built on OpenClaw, appearing as a contact within Microsoft Teams to automate scheduling and more (Reece Rogers/Wired)
GitHub unveils the GitHub Copilot desktop app in preview, which introduces a new feature called canvases for bidirectional work between users and agents (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)
Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that aims to provide granular, consistent governance over AI agent behavior (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
Over on the AboutCode blog, lead maintainer Philippe Ombredanne writes about an agentic LLM system porting the ScanCode Toolkit to Rust: Ombredanne - An AI agent ported our codebase from Python to Rust buff.ly/Zc9UusO
Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual smartphone (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
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The upcoming SpaceX and Anthropic IPOs are set to inject even more money into America’s tech competition with China. You can read more about that competition here: www.csis.org/analysis/tec...
Microsoft unveils Majorana 2 quantum chip, which was developed with the help of AI, and says it will have commercially useful quantum machines by 2029 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers
OpenAI is expanding Codex with role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, and investment banking to attract non-developers. The company reports five million weekly users,…
Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained "from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Threat Actor Uses Stolen Gemini API Keys to Automate Telegram Influence Campaign A single threat actor has been running a fake political persona on Telegram for five years, quietly building an audi...
Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1.
While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft’s claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip.
“A successful attack could be catastrophic”: Anthropic gives more groups access to Claude Mythos Anthropic laid down some sobering words on Tuesday. “A successful attack on their codebase cou...
It may often feel like the whole idea of protecting yourself online is too big of an issue to tackle. But we can take small steps to better protect our privacy, while building an online space that feels as free & safe as speaking with those close to us offline. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about catching up with "what was state of the art just a few months ago", refusing to use distillation, more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Anthropic and Cisco expanded AI-driven bug hunting, scanning 1.8 billion lines of Cisco code in eight weeks with under 3% false positives and human-validated findings.
This, along with the GitHub Copilot price increases as well as the limitations Google just introduced on their Gemini plans, feels very much like the beginning of the end for the current AI frenzy.
