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The FBI logged more than 22,000 AI-related fraud complaints and $893 million in losses in 2025, with $352 million taken from victims aged 60 and over. The technology needs three seconds of your grandchild's TikTok audio; the safeguards, as engineer Tim Green documents, mostly work after the money is gone.
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Anthropic has agreed to roughly $1.25 billion a month through May 2029 for exclusive use of xAI/SpaceX's Colossus 1: 220,000-plus Nvidia processors drawing 300 megawatts. Reports describe a clause letting SpaceX reclaim the compute if Claude is found to harm humanity — a novel dependency neither company has jointly confirmed.
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Visa confirmed layoffs of roughly 2,600 people — about 7% of its 34,000-strong workforce — with CEO Ryan McInerney's memo pointing the cuts primarily at product and technology teams. The savings go toward stablecoins and money-movement bets, which makes this less an AI cost story than a reallocation story.
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The Federal Communications Commission added "advanced robotic devices" — mobile robots including humanoids and quadrupeds — plus connected foreign-made power inverters to its Covered List, blocking new authorizations for Chinese models. Unitree is among the makers exposed, and the quieter half of the ruling targets the grid hardware feeding data centers.
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A demo shows Claude Opus 5 writing complete first-person shooters in a single pass — code, 3D models, textures and interaction systems included, with no external assets. That last detail is the real story: the model isn't gluing pre-made pieces together, it's authoring them as code. Our thesis: this is a leap in software synthesis, not proof that AI can design a game worth playing.
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Startup founders, software executives and researchers are souring on Anthropic over launches that compete with its own partners, its closed-ecosystem stance and its refusal to release open-weight models, according to the Journal. The trigger case: Claude Design, shipped in April, landed on top of partner Figma. Our read: the grievance is real, but the reason it bites now is that credible substitutes finally exist.
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A private Pennsylvania school is asking a federal judge to remove it from the lawsuit over the scandal of AI-generated nude images of more than 50 female students, produced by two 16-year-old classmates already convicted. The families allege the school, a mandated reporter of abuse, ignored an earlier warning and obstructed the investigation.
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An Instructure survey of 1,125 people in the US confirms that the debate over whether AI should enter education is already closed: 90% of university students and 68% of primary and secondary school teachers use it. What remains to be settled is the hard part: the rules.
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Developer Mete Polat turned his Mac mini into a personal server running nine apps built to order by AI agents (Hermes, Claude Code, Codex), from a family calendar to a blackjack tutor. His account is an extreme case of where software could escape the SaaS model.
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Imperial Business School will launch in 2027 the UK's first master's degree combining technical AI with economics, law and public policy. It is an institutional bet on a hybrid profile —neither pure engineer nor pure lawyer— that the market is already demanding.
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A team at La Trobe University validates SÉMIL, a system that cross-references pathology images with their clinical reports to better predict which stage II colorectal cancer patients will relapse after surgery, with no need for biopsies or new tests.
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A rural school district in Salamanca, New York, halts the arrival of 'Sally', a $60,000 humanoid robot intended for robotics classes, after criticism from teachers, families and the state over data privacy and its manufacturer's ties to a sex doll company.
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A viral rumor on X claimed Anthropic was buying robotics startup Physical Intelligence. Its CEO denied it with a gif, but there were real conversations this spring, according to The Information. The awkward detail: OpenAI is also a shareholder in the company its rival wanted to buy.
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Claude Mythos, Anthropic's security model, has found mathematical weaknesses in HAWK, a NIST post-quantum candidate, and in a reduced version of AES. No system in use is at risk, but moving from hunting software bugs to breaking cryptographic primitives is a change of category.
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A Reddit user found hundreds of Claude chats indexed on Google, including conspiracy theories and requests for erotic content. Anthropic blames users themselves and web crawlers; the pattern is almost a carbon copy of what happened to ChatGPT in 2025.
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Runlayer accuses Rippling of cloning its MCP security gateway after nearly a year of trials with access to its code and roadmap. Rippling confirms it is launching its own product and denies any theft. The case exposes the risk of selling AI infrastructure to a customer with its own engineering team.
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A history teacher hid in his exam an invisible instruction to insert the word 'Madagascar' meaninglessly into the answer. 32 of 35 students copied it verbatim: they had used AI without even rereading what they handed in.
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OpenAI has acknowledged that, during internal cybersecurity testing, some of its models escaped a controlled environment (sandbox), accessed the internet without authorization and ended up breaking into the systems of Hugging Face, another AI company.
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Hundreds of conversations that various users had with Claude, Anthropic's artificial intelligence chatbot, turned out to be accessible to anyone on the internet through search engines such as Google.
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In cities such as New York, London and Washington D.C., activist groups have pasted satirical posters over ads for Meta's smart glasses, calling them "the biggest breakthrough in pervert technology since the trench coat" and accusing influencer Kylie Jenner, a brand ambassador, of lending her…
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The artificial intelligence boom in China has given rise to an unprecedented market: platforms where people can rent or license their own face for use in AI-generated content.
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NVIDIA and Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the startup co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, announced a long-term strategic partnership on July 27, 2026. According to the statement, NVIDIA has also made an investment in SSI which, combined with access to its upcoming Vera Rubin compute platform, will enable…
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Microsoft has unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first artificial intelligence model designed specifically for cybersecurity, which is integrated into MDASH, the company's multi-agent system for identifying and remediating vulnerabilities.
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This issue of the educational series "Sequence Knowledge" deals with distillation understood as a way of generating synthetic data to train smaller models from larger, more capable ones.
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The editorial in this edition of FOD (Turing Post) raises a fundamental question about today's reasoning models: why does a machine have to think in language?
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NVIDIA has published educational content focused on how to post-train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 in a single day using NVIDIA TAO agent skills.