Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs
Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs Summary Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told The Logan Bartlett Show that agentic AI has allowed the company to “rebalance” headcount…
85% of College Students Report AI Use
85% of College Students Report AI Use Summary A recent Inside Higher Ed survey, reported on Slashdot, finds that 85% of college students used generative AI for coursework in the…
Are We Prepared For The Dark Side Of AI? [Guest Newsletter Editor]
Opening Shot: AI’s Dark Side – Are We Ready for This? The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is not just exciting—it’s potentially hazardous. As algorithms increasingly pull strings in…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated offence-research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and open-source…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception Summary Cisco Talos ran a quick Shodan sweep and found more than 1,100 Ollama…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Graphic designers, developers and other creatives are increasingly being hired to clean up poor or incomplete outputs from…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI quietly confirmed it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes potentially dangerous chats into specialised review pipelines. Human reviewers…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered at Forest City (a largely unoccupied megaproject in Malaysia) to attend Network School —…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry?
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old Brit with no musical training, is being billed as an…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary An Ars Technica report explains a recently filed lawsuit alleging Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by…