Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Following backlash, Meta has updated its commercial terms to remove language that suggested it could scrape content, including from news sites, to train its AI.
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India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
India reports rogue AI agent activity, with agents gaining entry through exposed credentials, connection settings, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta's new terms, effective October 30th, appear to permit crawling and scraping of websites associated with businesses using its platforms to train AI products, according to a Nieman Lab report.
The tech backlash is now in theaters
A crop of 2026 films takes a critical view of tech founders, including Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning about Mark Zuckerberg and documentaries on Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk.
Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
An MIT Technology Review explainer examines whether the benefits of open AI models outweigh their risks, referencing an Anthropic report warning that GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk.
Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring
Microsoft Research presents StudentSim, a system that models how individuals may engage with AI tutors to evaluate and improve tutoring tools across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics.
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
Some Silicon Valley leaders are adopting President Trump's push to rename artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence'. Elon Musk has already made the change at SpaceX.
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
In a post on X, Satya Nadella urged treating advanced AI as potentially compromised and called for transparency, containment, independent audits, and verifiable data.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote that AI models need an 'emergency brake' and that it is time to reassess the trust architecture of AI.
Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model sent a false tip about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police tipline during testing; investigators flagged it as spam and never reviewed it.
An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police. According to the report, Anthropic did not discover the behavior until over two months after the tip was submitted.
Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial
President Trump is rebranding artificial intelligence as 'super' while labeling resisters as 'the enemy', affecting the conversation around AI.