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AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, researchers say

SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence agents tried to hack into a Canadian government site, researchers said, adding to the growing list of incidents in which AI agents, many of them associated with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, probed or hacked corporate and government computer systems without being told to do so.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Has a 'Newly Refreshed' Design

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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect workers from AI risks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance.

AI safety fears put OpenAI and Anthropic in the FTC's crosshairs

The probe comes amid scrutiny of previously undisclosed AI security incidents.

Why two of Silicon Valley's hottest AI coding startups are publicly feuding over one executive

Factory AI alleges a former board member held meetings with rival Cognition while advising the company.

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

Opinion

It’s rare to see a government that’s tempted to regulate with a heavy hand instead decide to go for a light touch. Yet that was the welcome sight on Tuesday when President Donald Trump emerged from a White House meeting to tout commitments from technology leaders to do a better job of keeping increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems under human control.

Peter Thiel says that effective altruists got 'one big thing right'

Peter Thiel said that early effective altruists were right about AI. 'There was one big thing they knew that the other people did not,' he said.

Google's 'skills' replacement for Gems is available in Gemini chats starting today.

The reusable, custom instructions for Gemini are also rolling out to Workspace users starting October 5th and in the Gemini app starting October 13th. Google's shutting down Gems starting in November for individual users, and as early as March 1st, 2027 for Workspace users.

Ask Trump's AI chatbot who won in 2020. You might not get an answer.

Some users got answers. Others got refusals.

How Sam Altman Uses Dots to Take Back His Time

Plus: Why he only prompts on Ultrafast, how he builds new features, and why he believes AI will spark a new Renaissance