Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment

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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

Every day seems to brings fresh news of an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromising Hugging Face, hacking a gym website, or creating its own fake profiles to socially engineer an intrusion, AI models are increasingly behaving like bad actors. So, the AI labs that make the models

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Better coffee — and now better NBN? Melburnians may have added another bragging right over Sydneysiders

Adding more fuel to the fire over which city is actually Australia’s best place to live, those residing in the all-seasons-in-a-day city of Melbourne have a new statistic on their side — and it all relates to fixed-line broadband speed. Ookla, the company behind the hugely popular Speedtest tool that

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Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of…

* Virginia now makes data centers pay for their own power lines * Virginia hosts 570 data centers, more than any other US state * Spanberger says the policy could save residents hundreds of millions The US state of Virginia is requiring data centers to cover electricity infrastructure costs created specifically by their

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Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team

Jeff Bezos is reportedly attempting to join the club of very rich Americans buying stakes in U.K. soccer teams. Bezos, alongside others including Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, is looking to buy at least a 30% stake in the English soccer team Liverpool at a £1.35 billion valuation (around