Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
Anthropic staff told to work from home due to risk of possible security strikes
Security contractors at Anthropic were reportedly preparing to strike, but there’s been no evidence so far Physical security personnel are important as AI spend rises and worker threats emerge Anthropic employees were told to work from home as a precautionary measure Anthropic has told workers in its San Francisco offices…
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New study finds bosses are far more comfortable sharing work documents with AI than their employees — despite the security risks
Company chiefs are farming off more work to AI than their underlings, a new study suggests Almost 40% of C-suite leaders are relying on AI to complete tasks, despite privacy and security implications The survey, by Adobe Acrobat, explored the use of AI in workplaces across the UK New research…
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‘The right approach is for people to deeply control the future’: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried about AI being controlled by just a few powerful players
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried that powerful companies are dominating the evolution of AI Altman has also expressed concern over AI’s potential for acting autonomously and possibly escaping human control The comments are believed to be a reference to his rival, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Are too few companies…
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Salesforce AI agent platform hasn’t delivered meaningful growth two years after launch, customers report finds
Agentforce is now worth around $1.2 billion annually, and climbing Customers aren’t so sure about their data readiness and agentic maturity Many AI projects could be cancelled as users experiment with use cases Even though Salesforce says its Agentforce business has reached a staggering $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue,…
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Amazon security engineer hacks PC accessories with Claude Opus to make them work better — Asus, Insta360 and Elgato products reverse engineered in hours for ‘better control’, but engineer admits this also ‘scares me’
A security engineer at Amazon hacked a bunch of peripherals using AI Claude Opus did most of the legwork in applying modified firmware to a webcam, microphone and more The relative ease with which AI allows this kind of modification points to a worrying future of peripherals being compromised on…
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Met Office finds most of us still won’t trust an AI weather forecast
Public confidence in AI weather forecasts is far lower than for numerical and physics-based methods Just 11% said they were “very confident” in machine learning weather prediction, compared with 30% for tried-and-trusted methods The Met Office has been using machine learning techniques in weather forecasting for some years A survey…
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