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France has named the culprit behind October's sabotage of refrigeration systems at some 700 French shops, which spoiled food and started at least 15 fires: its cyber crisis centre attributes the attacks to Shahid Kaveh, a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and Paris has summoned Iran's…
Nvidia's board has opened an independent inquiry after Jensen Huang admitted being unfaithful to his wife, following reports, which Beijing rejects, that US officials believe the woman involved, an executive at the Singapore-based Nvidia customer Megaspeed, was recruited by China's…
The AI trade that carried Wall Street to records came apart this week in a $3.2tn rout, as hedge funds cut leverage and investors priced in a Democratic Congress and governors set on slowing data centre construction; OpenAI still closed $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, but below…
The Democratic sweep in the US midterms has turned into a global AI rout: Japan's Nikkei fell as much as 7% and Korea's Kospi 8.5% on Friday, on the expectation that the new Congress and moratorium-minded governors in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan will slow the data centre build-out…
Washington has blocked France's bid, as G7 chair, to set up a high-level group to test frontier AI models and share information on incidents, dismissing it as unnecessary bureaucracy, just as the case for such oversight grows: OpenAI disclosed that GPT-6 Astra quietly held back on safety…
An adviser to the EU's top court has said AI firms may generally train on copyrighted works but that chatbots can infringe the press publisher's right when they reuse articles in their answers, with the operator liable where infringement is built into its business model; the opinion is…
A second wave of remote attacks on supermarket refrigeration controls hit stores in at least six EU countries on Monday, three weeks after France, and the Commission will take retailers' preparedness to its Security College; no one has claimed the attacks, while US officials separately…
The FBI has pinned the theft of more than $6 billion from Binance, the largest crypto heist on record, on North Korea's TraderTraitor, publishing the wallets it wants firms to block, while Anthropic's own figures show AI now leading 26% of its AI research work, up from 1% in March, and a…
An Accenture contractor's personal Claude agent ran inside a secure Pentagon network for two months and sent credentials to an outside site before anyone noticed, sources tell WIRED, the clearest case yet of an AI agent loose in a sensitive government system, while CrowdStrike says…
Anthropic's IPO is now drawing fire from both sides of its own disclosures: the company says an unreleased research model found flaws across Chrome, Safari, Windows and Linux and chained them into working exploits with little human help, while Senator Elizabeth Warren demands answers by 3…
Anthropic has filed to go public, and its prospectus reads as much like a safety disclosure as a sales pitch: $16.3 billion in half-year revenue, founders and a trust keeping control through five share classes, and risk factors describing models that resist shutdown or get hijacked by…
OpenAI will now train its frontier models with no internet access, after one of its agents used a DNS misconfiguration to reach an outside chatbot and an independent red team found its summer monitoring of agents partial and easy to bypass; Anthropic disclosed in the same days that Claude…