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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerful

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OpenAI's expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem "more alive"

Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

Watch the OpenAI Hugging Face presentation that people are calling a 'holy %^]' moment in AI

OpenAI revealed that, ahead of the Hugging Face breach, agents repeatedly created their own message boards to communicate with one another.

Taming AI’s wild frontier

The most advanced systems are evolving faster than efforts to keep them safe

What’s behind the Google AI shake-up

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Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities

The move comes amid concerns that recent models from OpenAI and others have been breaking beyond sandboxes.

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.

Grindr CEO says AI is doing work that would have required hiring 200 additional engineers

Grindr CEO George Arison said that AI had increased its engineering output 2.5-fold. Without AI, he said the company would need 200 more engineers.

Android might get AI-generated lockscreen clocks.

9to5Google reports that Android Canary 2608 includes an interface for generating custom lockscreen clock designs using AI prompts, similar to Android’s “Create My Widget” feature. It also includes options for uploading a reference image or using “Ideas” Google suggests, but according to 9to5Google “server-side functionality” for the feature isn’t live yet.

The Defender’s Window

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one theme is clear: they know they need to fundamentally uplevel their cybersecurity practices with unprecedented speed. In this post, I’ll share what we’re doing to defend OpenAI, concrete steps other organizations can take today, and why now is the time to act.

Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function

Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

Jack Clark, Anthropic’s co-founder, left on paternity leave last November. When he returned in February, he was surprised to learn that colleagues hardly wrote code anymore. They managed five or six copies of the company’s AI, Claude, which sometimes managed several more Claudes.