The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that banks must immediately reimburse customers who become victims of fraud such as phishing. This also applies when the bank believes the customer acted with gross negligence. The ruling came in the case of a Polish bank customer. The customer was offering a product on […]
A striking shift is taking place in how organisations consume AI. According to Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, open-weight models grew from 28.4 percent to 62 percent of token usage on Vercel’s AI Gateway between June and August. He described August 22 as a record day. In just a few months, open-weight models went from a […]
Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research labs, has made the drastic decision to completely sever its internal evaluation AI agents from the live internet. The company revealed that it can no longer reliably predict or control the actions of its most advanced autonomous models during internal testing, prompting an immediate halt to […]
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a sobering assessment of the global economic landscape, warning that a convergence of emerging threats could severely derail international financial stability and growth in the coming years. According to the recent briefing, the global economy is facing a precarious “perfect storm” driven by renewed energy […]
North Korean state-sponsored hackers have successfully infected more than 30,000 devices worldwide by posing as legitimate corporate recruiters. The attackers use sophisticated social engineering tactics on professional networking platforms to trick unsuspecting job seekers into downloading malicious files disguised as job descriptions. Once executed, the malware grants the threat actors full remote access to steal […]
A dystopian short film imagines 2036, where AI has taken over virtually all human employment and society is searching for a new purpose for people. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman are portrayed as ageing tech moguls promoting a bizarre solution: gyms that turn human sweat and physical effort into energy for AI. Through […]
NCP-ArchPreview introduces Next Concept Prediction (NCP), enabling language models to predict multi-token concepts alongside individual tokens. The 8.9B-parameter model was trained on 5.73 trillion tokens and reaches OLMo-3-7B’s final pretraining loss using only 51.3% of the training tokens. It achieves 1.95× faster convergence and improves downstream performance by 2.45 points, including a +5.99 gain on […]
The FBI’s new cyber strategy shifts the focus toward actively disrupting adversaries, dismantling infrastructure, seizing funds and imposing real costs on attackers. Four pillars drive the strategy: disrupt cyber adversaries, support victims, strengthen partnerships, and enhance the FBI’s own cyber capabilities. Rapid intelligence sharing and closer public-private cooperation should help organizations detect attacks earlier, contain […]
Following the publication of stolen data from Berlin’s administration, a central crisis unit led by the Chief Digital Officer has been established to coordinate the response. Police, cybersecurity authorities, data protection officials and affected government departments are jointly assessing the leaked information and potential risks. IT forensic investigations remain ongoing, with security-critical data and organisations […]
Republican leaders are turning against Flock Safety, the $8bn AI-surveillance company whose licence-plate cameras have spread across the US. Governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott have restricted Flock cameras or their funding, citing privacy risks, government overreach and documented misuse by law enforcement. The cameras can create a searchable record of vehicle movements, while newer […]