Solana Foundation's new CISO warns AI is making crypto scams more convincing
Michael Coates, the foundation’s new CISO, said that AI vulnerabilities and fake identities will drive the next wave of blockchain security concerns.
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Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant
Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — open test environment and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led bots run rampant
OpenAI's Hugging Face hack confirmed months of AI cyber warnings: 'Pandora's box is open'
The wake-up call to the cyber industry comes as industry experts descend on Black Hat, a major cybersecurity conference.
What a visit to China’s AI labs reveals about the battle for global soft power
Inside the exhibition hall of a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence research institute, an ink-wash map covered an entire wall, immediately drawing your attention. It was a cartography of AI: chipmakers were rendered as mountains on islands and algorithms as jagged mountain ranges, while questions of privacy, fairness and machine…
Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected.
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AI in Formula One: Competitive advantage is all about the human in the loop
Professional handcraft is the key to unlocking value from emerging technology and data, suggest Aston Martin Aramco F1 executives and partners.
Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop
Those were the days. The post Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop appeared first on Futurism .
Wall Street Thinks It Knows How Tech Giants Will Make AI Pay
Investors are coming around to the idea that Big Tech spending on AI can make sense—as long as there is a cloud-computing business involved.
The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
Egypt wins chairmanship of AI governance, quantum computing working groups at Arab AI Committee
Egypt won on Friday, July 31, 2026, the presidency of the AI Governance Working Group and the Quantum Computing Working Group under the Arab Permanent Committee for AI and Emerging Technologies…
Why a U.S. sovereign wealth fund for AI is harder than it sounds
Creating a government fund to own AI stock and benefit all Americans would require many hard choices. Should the U.S. government require artificial intelligence companies to transfer half of their…
Stay curious in the age of AI, TikTok chief Chew Shou Zi tells NTU PhD graduates
Hours spent playing computer games as a boy fuelled his interest in technology.
Zynga’s founder shares 6 mindsets for building billion-dollar products
Below, Mark Pincus shares six key insights from his new book, Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love! . Mark is the founder of Zynga, the pioneer of social mobile games.
AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
Article URL: https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132130 Points: 249 # Comments: 263
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
4 neuroscience-backed tips for using AI to learn more effectively
It’s Monday, and you’re a leader who wants to learn how to give better feedback. Since your company recently brought on an artificial intelligence chatbot to help you improve your skills as a manager, you open a new window and begin typing.
South Korea July exports beat forecasts on robust demand for AI investments
Semiconductor exports jumped 179% as memory chip prices continued to rise despite the issues of Apple's potential use of Chinese memory chips and a new AI development in China, the trade ministry said in a statement. Computer sales also surged 404% on increasing AI investments by big U.S. technology firms, the ministry said.
Dow Jones, S&P 500, Nasdaq: Stocks rise on tech earnings; bond yields hit multi-year highs
Apple shares tumble more than 7% after disappointing forecast on component shortages
Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past
Leopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt
Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart vs Mar Flores: the day the duchess “got down on her knees” before the model
The aristocrat with the most titles in the world was known for not paying homage to any king, but in 1998 she had to bow to the mannequin bride of her favourite son.
OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attention this month, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
What keeps sexual chemistry alive after 30 years together? A sex therapist explains
Does the spark felt on a first date really predict a satisfying sex life, and how can couples preserve desire and intimacy after decades together?
iPad Air Could Finally Be Redesigned Next Year
The iPad Air has looked the same since 2020, making it the longest-running design in Apple's tablet lineup. There is a reasonable case that 2027 could be when that comes to an end. Apple last gave the ‌iPad Air‌ a new enclosure in 2020, when the fourth-generation model introduced flat sides, an all-screen front, and Touch ID in…
Addressing False Claims After Community Land Trust Bill Rejected by Rio de Janeiro City Council
Clique aqui para Português The bill received 23 votes in favor but needed 26 to pass. Coordinated efforts by right-wing city council members, coupled with the spread of false claims about Community Land Trusts, proved [...]
A model of depth-dependent responses from neural superposition in fly compound eyes
Fly compound eyes pool signals from photoreceptors that sample the same region of visual space through neural superposition in the lamina. The optical axes of photoreceptors projecting to a single lamina cartridge are not perfectly parallel, but instead converge at a point a few millimeters in front of the eye.
Evolution of a large and diverse phospholipase gene cluster that defines the plant pathogenic genus Ceratocystis
Many Ceratocystis species cause cankers and unique vascular wilt diseases, often on a broad and unpredictable range of plant hosts. Characteristic necrosis of xylem parenchyma cells and dark staining of surrounding tissue is typically evident, especially in woody hosts.
Optimized Multiple Circular Sequence Alignment for Cyclic Peptide Motif Discovery
Head-to-tail (H2T) cyclized peptides are an increasingly important modality in drug discovery, combining high target affinity and selectivity with metabolic sta-bility.
Efficient design of blockchain-based electronic health record systems with federated learning, off-chain storage, and zk-rollup parallelism for minimizing transaction costs
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Beyond flat patching: wavelet tokens with cross-scale and decoupled attention for electricity load forecasting
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities".
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name.
Snapchat’s Spotlight algorithm now favors human-made videos over AI-generated ones
Snapchat will stop recommending fully AI generated videos on Spotlight, favoring authentic human made content instead, while still allowing AI edited videos to appear.
China to build world's fastest underwater high-speed rail after record-breaking river tunnel
China has completed excavating a tunnel beneath the Yangtze River, the country's largest waterway, marking a major milestone for a project that will connect Shanghai's Chongming Island with…
Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges
A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.
What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching.
How do supermassive black holes grow? AI finds 7 spacetime-warping 'quasars' that could help solve the mystery
Astronomers found seven rare quasar gravitational lens candidates using AI, providing a powerful new tool for studying black hole and galaxy evolution.
Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop'
Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.
Trump's AI executive order nears key deadline as regulation debate intensifies
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Nvidia's Jensen Huang were among tech leaders in Washington, D.C., ahead of a deadline the White House set in its AI executive order.
Colorado will select training programs for new Pell initiative. But data shows a ‘mixed bag’ in outcomes.
Low-income students in Colorado will soon be eligible for short-term job training through an expansion of Pell Grants, the federal program that provides need-based aid for higher education. But it’s unclear whether the new Workforce Pell program will…
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can now read your tabs, YouTube videos, and highlighted text
OpenAI updated ChatGPT's Chrome extension and desktop app with tab awareness, YouTube support, browsing history search, and a new Activity view for tracking chats.
The Strait of Hormuz Is Exposing a Blind Spot in the Energy Transition
Alternative fuels like jet fuel can help address the energy price volatility that has resulted from the Iran war.
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer…
Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason
"Unfortunately, we are no longer able to authenticate how the manuscript fully evolved from origin to completion." The post Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of…
This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content
A Brazilian creative studio called Seneda & Abrucio has teamed up with Playtype, a Copenhagen-based type foundry, to build something that doesn't rely on asking nicely to keep crawlers away.
How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud
The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160 million.
‘Mediocre doctors won’t be needed’: Prof. Ido Wolf on AI’s future role in medicine
Prof. Ido Wolf warns that AI will replace mediocre doctors within a decade, urges Israel to retain its top physicians amid growing emigration concerns and says medical education must adapt to a rapidly changing healthcare landscape
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks
"It inherits the credibility of the map it was born on." The post Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks appeared first on Futurism .
Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.
AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company
Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".
Apple’s CEO Hints That Heavy Use of Siri AI Could Cost You
Apple’s already raising prices on products and services. Is Siri next?
Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1…
Robots get better at handling unpredictability
Google DeepMind unveiled a new model this week that gives humanoid robots finer control over how they interact with objects around them, including completing complicated tasks like tying a trash bag.
Chinese AI companies aim to serve businesses
Chinese tech players like ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent are looking to pivot toward the more lucrative enterprise market to increase revenues.
How to keep your AI conversations as private as possible
Worried about your personal AI chats being exposed? Here's how to tighten your privacy across several of the major chatbots.
$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use
Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’ A high-profile publishing deal for a debut crime novel has collapsed…
Chime to cut 10% of total workforce on AI driven efficiencies
Fintech firm Chime is reducing its workforce by ten percent. This move aligns with a broader trend of companies using AI for operational efficiencies.
LinkedIn's new 'Seems like AI slop' button lets you report all those cringey posts
LinkedIn's 'Seems like AI slop' button is coming to users, and its existence signals a changing perspective on AI infiltrating digital communities.
How YouTube is navigating an AI tightrope
The company is trying a new way of using AI to give users better search results.
The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics | Editorial
Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans The iconic Lovell telescope, housed at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, has always expanded our view of the universe – from tracking the Sputnik launch in 1957 to its current contributions to the study of dark matter.