The UK’s War on Anonymity Has Come to America

An Effort investigation has identified a coordinated operation to influence American lawmakers by five foreign non-government organizations and their US affiliates. These NGOs have converged upon a unified strategy: use the rhetoric of ‘child safety’ to advocate for digital ID laws that would prevent adults from using the internet anonymously. In Britain, they succeeded in … Devamını oku

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

The deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, the same as its most recentfundraising roundin March, which added $122 billion to the company’s war chest. The company alsofiled confidentiallywith the Securities and Exchange Commission in June to prepare for a potential IPO later this year. However, a tender offer suggests that an IPO … Devamını oku

RoboStore launches Robo Inc. to help U.S. organizations deploy robots

RoboStore has provided Unitree robots to more than 4,000 U.S. customers. Source: RoboStore As labor and competitive pressures mount, more companies are looking to localize robotics production and adoption. RoboStore, a leading distributor of foreign humanoid and quadruped robots in North America, today publicly launched Robo Inc., a U.S.-based robotics manufacturer and systems integrator. “With … Devamını oku

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

Every day seems to bringsfresh newsof an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromisingHugging Face, hacking agym website, or creating its own fake profiles tosocially engineer an intrusion, AI models are increasingly behaving like bad actors. So, the AI labs that make the models doing the hacking are expanding their cyber protection offerings. This week, … Devamını oku

Hadrian raises $1.37B to accelerate U.S. defense, aerospace manufacturing

Opus, Hadrian’s proprietary software stack for production autonomy, powers its factories. | Source: Hadrian Hadrian Automation last week said it has brought in $1.37 billion in new equity financing. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate the buildout of the domestic manufacturing capacity needed to deliver U.S. military, aerospace, and industrial systems. “Production … Devamını oku

How Claude marks AI-generated content

Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put those commitments into practice, how marking works, and what its limitations are. We’ll update this article and publish … Devamını oku

Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification

HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system. Governor JB Pritzker’s press release on HB5511 is thick with quotes from legislators and advocacy groups, and it names Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, Facebook, and Roblox specifically. Device setup gets one mention, framed as something a … Devamını oku

Rust SIMD on the GPU

AtVectorWare, we are building the firstGPU-native software company. Today, we are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust’s portable SIMD (core::simd) on the GPU. This milestone marks a significant step towards our vision of enabling developers to write complex, high-performance applications that leverage the full power of GPU hardware using familiar Rust abstractions. … Devamını oku