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OpenAI says it's investigating the incident after a group of researchers disclosed their findings. Igor Bonifacic for Engadget Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have been involved in a previously undisclosed incident that saw them bypass their sandbox restrictions to hijack a website this past spring. Per Reuters, a
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I spent the waning days of summer grinding away at columns and working on a feature. But I missed a chance at a striking change of scenery—cruising the Galápagos with about a dozen prominent philosophers studying consciousness. The invite described morning classroom discussions tackling knotty questions on the nature
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Following the aftermath of the Manchester Airports Group cyberattack - where hackers made off with the data of 8.7 million people - the hackers have now posted the entire database for sale on the dark web. The group behind the attack, FulcrumSec, attempted to get Manchester Airports Group (MAG)
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Google is integrating more of its services with AI, as the company announced that its personal agent, Gemini Spark, can now manage your Google Photos library. That means you can ask Gemini Spark to execute tasks in Google Photos, like editing images, curating albums, automatically creating shared albums with your
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Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), plans to invest another $250 million in India over the next three to four years as it pushes beyond gaming into AI, robotics, and deep tech. Announced Friday, the new commitment will take Krafton’s
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on
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YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats every synthetic-media detector platforms have built. Enforcement came only after
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TL;DR Cross-border payroll moves $200B+ annually through fragmented infrastructure that lacks the shared plumbing financial markets built decades ago. Companies scale into new markets by adding vendors one at a time, creating reconciliation gaps and compliance risk. Platforms like Papaya Global are replacing that patchwork with unified gross-to-net engines,
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TL;DR Coefficient Giving CEO Alexander Berger told Semafor that AI wealth is about to add roughly $40bn a year to American philanthropy, contingent on Anthropic and OpenAI listing. His foundation funds Redwood Research, one of the outfits OpenAI brought in to investigate its own agents breaching Hugging Face. The
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IFA is, as you'll probably know, a huge annual tech expo held in Berlin. It's also where some of audio-slash-hi-fi's biggest hitters unveil their latest wearable innovations — and this year is one of the best (and most varied) product lineups we've seen
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* GoPro CEO Nick Woodman has released a statement following concern around the company's "merger" with Starman * He provides assurances that the company is committed to making consumer cameras * But there are no concrete commitments – and a disclaimer list that's longer than the statement itself
