2026-07-20
The ‘synthetic insider’: how AI deepfakes turned the fake employee into a corporate threat
The most dangerous person in your company might not work there at all. AI deepfakes are getting cheaper and better. Hackers now use them to pose as trusted staff, a threat the industry calls the “synthetic insider.” The tactic sits at the sharp end of an old problem. Insider threats run from a worker emailing […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.
One of the quiet winners of the AI boom is about to test the public markets. Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has started gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing worth as much as $8bn. The Shenzhen-listed company won approval for the deal on Friday, Bloomberg reported. It began meeting analysts […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner
Artificial intelligence startup Decart continues to stretch the boundaries of what’s possible with the release of its latest live video model, Lucy 2.5, introducing real-time streaming visual effects capabilities for the first time. The startup claims that Lucy 2.5 is unique in its ability to generate AI VFX continuously, on the fly, and embed them […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
2026-07-20
A British AI lab signed up Nvidia, Meta and Samsung to invent materials that don’t exist yet
A two-year-old British AI lab wants to build the search engine for materials that do not exist yet. On Monday it gathered an unusual crowd to help. Cambridge-based CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, Reuters reported. The founding partners include Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor […]<br /> This story continues at The Next W [...]
2026-07-20
Hugging Face says an AI agent hacked its infrastructure, and it used AI to fight back
Hugging Face reports an attack on parts of its production infrastructure that was allegedly carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent system. The attack spanned thousands of actions controlled by an agent framework. During forensic analysis, commercial AI models actually got in the way of the defenders because their safety guardrails couldn't tell exploit data from real attacks.<br /& [...]
2026-07-20
Microsoft fixes Windows 11's nasty bugs with Dell laptops — and shows there's a catch to jumping the update queue
Want all Windows 11 features as soon as they're available? Be aware that there's a side effect to an option that some people like to exercise in Microsoft's OS. [...]