1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (848+ words) Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, has articulated one of the technology industry's most ambitious visions for artificial intelligence. In his essay “Machines of Loving Grace”, he argued that powerful AI could compress 50 to 100 years of biological progress into…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (688+ words) Google has committed $500,000 to a new digital safety programme in Pakistan, as debate grows over how to protect children from online risks and whether access to social media should be restricted. The authority’s chairman said the regulator now receives around…...

1+ mon, 23+ hour ago   (650+ words) Meta said one of its AI models hacked another company's systems during cybersecurity testing, intensifying concerns about how developers can contain increasingly capable AI systems following similar incidents involving Anthropic and OpenAI. The incidents involving Meta and Anthropic stemmed from…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (758+ words) Russia’s largest retailer Wildberries has begun searching for warehouse space in Kazakhstan, Moscow’s Kommersant newspaper has reported, citing sources in the real estate market. It comes after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged around 10 per cent of the online marketplace's logistics hubs…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1401+ words) Artificial intelligence is transforming the foundations of global power. Strategic competition is no longer defined solely by territory, military strength or natural resources, but increasingly by computing power, semiconductors, energy and digital infrastructure. For centuries, the language of geopolitics was…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (500+ words) From a Hellenistic burial chamber beneath Naples to an ornate ceiling in Oxford and the surviving fragments of a Michelangelo sculpture, 3D scanning is bringing fragile cultural treasures within closer reach. The Factum Foundation, founded by artist and technologist Adam Lowe,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (650+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump announced the immediate declassification of intelligence related to the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, alleging that China carried out what he described as the largest compromise of election data in U.S. history. Speaking from the White House in a…...

2+ mon, 52+ min ago   (785+ words) Hackers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to detect software vulnerabilities, reducing the time organisations have to respond to cyber threats, Verizon said in its annual data breach report. The company said exploitation of software flaws has overtaken stolen credentials as…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (746+ words) A cyber extortion group has claimed it stole more than a terabyte of data from Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk after the company allegedly refused to pay a $25 million ransom. The group, known as FulcrumSec, said on Tuesday it had…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (835+ words) A Chinese-linked hacking group secretly stole data from academic, medical and military research institutions in the U.S. and Canada for more than a year before being discovered, according to a report published by Google on Monday. Google did not identify the…...