The US Treasury Department says it was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack

Documents and workstations at the US Treasury Department were accessed during a cyberattack, The New York Times reports. The attack was linked to a "China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Thr [...]

Nvidia-backed ThinkLabs AI raises $28 million to tackle a growing power grid crunch

ThinkLabs AI, a startup building artificial intelligence models that simulate the behavior of the electric grid, announced today that it has closed a $28 million Series A financing round led by Energy [...]

Running Claude Code or Claude in Chrome? Here's the audit matrix for every blind spot your security stack misses

Between May 6 and 7, four security research teams published findings about Anthropic’s Claude that most outlets covered as three separate stories. One involved a water utility in Mexico, another tar [...]

Google researchers introduce 'faithful uncertainty', allowing LLMs to offer best guesses instead of hallucinations

Large language models continue to struggle with hallucinations, presenting a major roadblock for real-world enterprise applications. Reducing these errors is a messy business, forcing model developers [...]

Anthropic brings Mythos to the masses with Claude Fable 5, its most powerful generally available model ever

Anthropic today launched two new AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — marking the company’s first broad release of the powerful “Mythos-class” AI capabilities it previously kept [...]

The Morning After: A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen

We’re wrapping up 2024, so why not do it with some frivolous CES announcements? Like this premium (it has to be premium!) microwave from LG, with a touchscreen bigger than your iPad. I’m not sure [...]

Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations

Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI's top U.S. rival Anthropic to [...]

Security researchers aren't buying Musk's spin on the cyberattack that took down X

One day after X went down for hours, security researchers are throwing cold water on Elon Musk’s public comments about who might be behind the DDoS attack. On Monday, as X was still struggling to re [...]

How Google’s 'internal RL' could unlock long-horizon AI agents

Researchers at Google have developed a technique that makes it easier for AI models to learn complex reasoning tasks that usually cause LLMs to hallucinate or fall apart. Instead of training LLMs thro [...]