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BBC Technology ↗
OpenAI fired three researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, after an internal probe found they shared confidential details with an outside AI evaluation group. OpenAI says the firings are about unauthorized handling of information and not whistleblowing. Two of the three had publicly voiced AI safety concerns, and Balesni had estimated a greater than 10% chance of AI causing human extinction.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Anthropic will spend $100 million to train nearly 10,000 AI engineers by 2027 through a new Claude Frontier Academy, partnering with several consulting firms. It is the company's first academy program and focuses on skills for deploying AI inside enterprises. The first cohorts have already started in San Francisco, New York and London.
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Ars Technica ↗
Apple will add new controls to the macOS Full Disk Access setting, saying some apps use it to reach files, mail, messages and browsing history without users fully understanding. The change targets always-on AI agents such as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, and granting that access will now require very explicit user action. It follows a report that Muse appeared to read a user's messages, which Meta disputes.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Interpol's global chief information security officer Bjorn Watne told CNBC that AI is mostly supercharging familiar crimes like scams and fraud, making them faster, cheaper, more convincing and easier to scale. He singled out agentic AI as a distinct risk, because systems that can take actions for users can cause far bigger damage than tools that only generate answers.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Cerebras shares fell almost 20% in a week to a record low near $166, below the $185 IPO price and more than half off their opening pop. Pressure came from reports that OpenAI is running the fast mode of its newest model on Nvidia GPUs instead of Cerebras chips. A lockup expiry also freed up to 19.4 million insider shares, about 8% of the shares outstanding, for sale.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who joined Stability AI during its $80 million rescue round, is helping CEO Prem Akkaraju turn the image generator into an AI toolmaker for music professionals. Sony, Warner and Universal invested $76 million in August and licensed their catalogs for training. Stability has since released three audio models and music editing software, with a hum-to-melody feature coming.
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TechRepublic ↗
The Tokyo District Court ruled that a person's voice can be protected under publicity rights, in a case brought by Jujutsu Kaisen voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda against a TikTok account that used an AI clone of his voice in more than 180 videos. The judge said the human voice is symbolic of personality, just like a portrait. The deletion request was dismissed because the account had closed, but voice actors see the ruling as a landmark.
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Reuters Technology ↗
US District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan warned that law firms' growing reliance on AI could put clients at risk and leave junior lawyers without proper training. He raised the concern after citation errors surfaced in a copyright case, though he chose not to sanction the attorneys involved. He called the episode a wake up call for the legal profession as AI adoption outpaces formal guardrails.
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Axios ↗
Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin received a cease and desist letter from his Democratic opponent Rebecca Cooke's lawyers over AI-generated videos that falsely show her voicing positions she rejects. The letter cites a pattern of misleading deepfakes, including an August post on X. He is the latest of a growing number of candidates and officials facing legal complaints over AI deepfakes in campaign ads.
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Wired ↗
Nurses at HCA Healthcare say Timpani, an AI scheduling tool built with Palantir and used at about 130 of its 190 locations, routinely understaffs shifts, ignores their preferences and leaves teams exhausted. At Rayus Radiology, a Palantir-based scheduling tool linked requests to the wrong patients and invented patient details. Staff warn the errors threaten patient safety and are urging hospitals to drop Palantir systems.