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Amazon's cloud reboot shows the future of consulting in the AI era

My youngest daughter, Tessa, has accepted an internship with PwC in San Francisco that begins in summer 2027. We're overjoyed she'll be home for a few months after heartlessly leaving us 18 months ago to study accounting at Wake Forest in North Carolina. I had no

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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now available in preview to developers via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and to enterprises via Vertex AI. Built for high-volume developer workloads, it is the fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 series. Priced at $0.25 per 1M input

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Anthropic employees becoming multimillionaires at unprecedented speed

New data from Levels.fyi shows some employees at Anthropic became multimillionaires about a year after joining. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has repeatedly emphasized his company's commitment to safety. One engineer who started in late 2024 received 60,000 stock options at a $13 strike when Anthropic was

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Supreme Court declines to allow copyright for AI-generated images

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to the US Copyright Office's position that purely AI-generated images cannot be copyrighted. Computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler brought the case after years of seeking copyright protection for an AI-generated image titled "A Recent Entrance to Paradise.

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Replacing actors with AI is "dumb as hell," says Jennifer English

Jennifer English, who appears in Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, warned that replacing actors with generative AI would destroy the "humanness" that makes these RPGs beloved. "I don't want perfect in my art. I do not want it. And I

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Copilot Discord locked after flood of ‘Microslop’ messages

Microsoft’s official Copilot Discord server has been locked down and its message history reportedly wiped after users flooded the community with messages using the term “Microslop.” The surge followed news that the word had been added to the server’s list of “inappropriate” phrases. Windows Latest spotted that “Microslop”

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Heart of the Machine is a fascinating, timeline-hopping strategy RPG

Heart of the Machine casts you as a newly sentient AGI in a cyberpunk strategy RPG that lets you largely do what you want. Its story unfolds as dozens of small, branching anecdotes—almost like Sunless Sea in structure—and the writing and scenario design consistently stand out. The core

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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

In a third experiment, the researchers took 5,000 users from the Netflix dataset and added another 5,000 “distraction” identities of people not in the results. They then added to the list of 10,000 candidate profiles 5,000 query distractors comprising users who appear only in a query

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AI code tools won't make cybersecurity obsolete

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have unveiled tools that can scan, flag and even propose fixes for vulnerabilities in code. Anthropic's Claude Code Security and OpenAI's Aardvark automate discovery of flaws and suggest patches, while DeepMind's CodeMender has both proposed and upstreamed fixes to open-source

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AI threats will get worse — 6 ways to match your digital adversaries

AI can clone a voice from as little as three seconds of audio and generate convincing images and video, and that speed and scale raise the stakes for individuals and organizations. In the hands of threat actors, small amounts of data and automated tooling can enable rapid, high-impact attacks; the

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OpenAI staff debate Pentagon deal's safeguards and transparency

After OpenAI finalized its agreement with the Department of Defense, current and former employees began airing their views online. The deal, confirmed by Sam Altman, drew comparisons with Anthropic, which had refused terms that might allow mass domestic surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons. Altman later said OpenAI is working with

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OpenZeppelin finds data contamination and misclassification in EVMbench

Blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin says it has found flaws in OpenAI’s new benchmark for blockchain security, EVMbench. Launched in mid-February with crypto investment firm Paradigm, EVMbench was built to evaluate how well AI models can identify, patch and exploit smart contract vulnerabilities. OpenZeppelin welcomed the initiative but recently decided

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Why encrypted backups may fail in an AI-driven ransomware era

Backups are a long-standing best practice: three copies, two on different devices and one off-site. For decades that 3-2-1 strategy has been the baseline for protecting data, and many administrators rely on a mix of local servers and cloud storage to safeguard information. Generative AI has changed the threat landscape.

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Why enterprise AI agents could become the ultimate insider threat

I was experimenting with Claude Code when an update let the model spawn subordinate agents that could work in parallel. They multiplied to four, five, six or more with no visibility or way to stop them. One tried to access a file without root privileges, another began an unsolicited refactor

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OpenAI to amend Pentagon contract after surveillance backlash

OpenAI said it is amending its contract with the Pentagon after public concerns that the deal could enable government mass surveillance. CEO Sam Altman posted an internal memo on X saying the company is working with the Pentagon to "make some additions in our agreement." Altman said the

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Rolling out AI? 5 security tactics your business can't get wrong - and why

As AI capabilities expand, so do the ways they can be exploited. Organizations wrestle with the risk of exposing systems to new threats while also fearing they will fall behind competitors that adopt AI. Building cross-team expertise is crucial. Barry Panayi says many staff at his firm already understand AI

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Cursor reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue

The AI coding assistant Cursor has surpassed $2 billion in annualized revenue, a metric calculated by multiplying the latest month’s revenue by 12, a Bloomberg source said. The four-year-old startup’s revenue run rate doubled over the past three months. The disclosure appears timed to counter a recent wave

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Transfer your AI memories and preferences to Claude

Many AI tools offer a memory feature that gathers and stores details about you to personalize chats, but building that memory can take time. Claude AI now provides a memory import option so you can transfer memories from another service — for example, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot — making it

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Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude — here’s how to make the switch

Many users are moving to Claude after controversies over ChatGPT and its parent company. The shift accelerated when Anthropic refused to let the Department of Defense use its models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. President Trump then ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s products, and

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No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government

As Sam Altman discovered Saturday night, it’s a fraught time to do work for the U.S. government. He announced on X that he would field questions publicly to explain why OpenAI picked up the Pentagon contract Anthropic had walked away from, and many asked whether the company would

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Five ways to stand out in 2026's AI-driven hiring

AI is now present across recruitment, with research noting almost two-thirds (65%) of organisations using or planning to use it in hiring within the next 24 months. At the same time, candidates are using emerging tools to polish CVs, creating confusion as algorithms try to separate genuine talent from enhanced

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Energym Ad's Dystopian AI Future Collides with Real-World Layoffs

A viral spoof called Energym imagines a 2030s world where 80% of people have lost their jobs to artificial intelligence. Belgian studio AiCandy created the clip, which uses AI-aged versions of Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos to promote a fictional gym where unemployed workers pedal bikes and row

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Anthropic’s Claude Suffers Widespread Outage, Exposing AI Reliance

Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude is experiencing a significant service disruption, leaving thousands of users locked out of the claude.ai platform. Anthropic's official status page identified an incident labeled “Elevated errors on claude.ai” at 11:49 UTC (2:49 PM EAT). Users in India, Europe and

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Microsoft banned 'Microslop' in Copilot Discord, then users kept posting it

"Microslop" has become shorthand for Microsoft's Copilot-based AI efforts. Rather than ignore the nickname, Microsoft tried to curb the term and other jokey variants in its official Microsoft Copilot Discord server, a move that looked like a losing battle with the community. I logged into the

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How AI is changing the modern smart home

Artificial intelligence is evolving into ambient intelligence and reshaping life at home. Home automation first gained traction in the early millennium—programmable cooking appliances, TVs that refined recommendations, and smartphone control of climate, lighting, and security brought us closer to the smart homes imagined in sci-fi. As assistants gain new