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PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam

Amazon’s AI Now Sniffs Out Scam Messages, Because Apparently Humans Still Click on Obvious Bullshit So here’s the latest bit of corporate do-gooding from Amazon: its shopping AI can now help figure out whether some message...

HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments

HiddenLayer Bags $100M Because Apparently Nobody Thought Securing AI Before Deploying It Was a Good Fucking Idea So here’s the deal: HiddenLayer just hauled in a fat $100 million round because enterprises have finally noticed...

The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other

The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other Right, so Wired has finally documented the obvious steaming pile at the end of the modern hiring pipeline: one AI “candidate” shows up to a job...

India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs

India’s richest man wants to resurrect your crusty old PCs into “AI-ready” machines, because apparently that’s where the money is now Right, so Mukesh Ambani — India’s richest bloke, because of course he is — has...

Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months

Wonderful Hits $5B Because Apparently Gravity No Longer Applies to Startup Bullshit Well, here we bloody go again. Wonderful — yes, that’s apparently the name some investor signed off on with a straight face — has more than...

Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

Pangram’s Max Spero Explains Why AI Detection Is a Bigger Pain in the Ass Than “Real or Fake” Right, so here’s the gist, because apparently the internet still thinks AI detection is some cute little parlour game where you...

These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words

These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words, Because Apparently Normal Chaos Wasn’t Enough Right, so here’s the shitshow: a Russian startup called Mostik is working on ways for...

Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit

Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit, Because Of Course It Fucking Does So here’s the latest heap of legal bullshit: the Trump administration has filed a brief backing OpenAI in The New...

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s New Reasoning Trick Has the Safety Crowd Shitting Bricks So here’s the gist, because apparently someone has to clean up this mess: OpenAI has rolled out a new reasoning technique that’s supposed to make its models...

Security

Stronger Security Drives Ransomware Groups to Recruit From Within

Stronger Security Drives Ransomware Scum to Go Shopping for Insiders Right, so here’s the bloody gist of it. According to the article, defenders have apparently managed to do one thing half-competently for once: make it harder...