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By: Tom Carter, Charles Rollet, Stephen Council
AI labs are offering companies big money for internal data like employee emails and Slack DMs, raising major cybersecurity and privacy concerns.
By: Lloyd Lee, Stephen Council, Brent D. Griffiths
OpenAI said the device was "concealed in toilet paper" and planted in one of its offices. The company said it then used its own models to determine who planted the device.
By: Stephen Council
Opsin, an AI security and governance startup, raised $21 million to complement the boom in AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
By: Stephen Council
Alexander Embiricos, who leads OpenAI's enterprise product and Dots agent tool, said the AI era gives workers a choice: work more, or work less.
By: Stephen Council
Anthropic employees forecast AI to handle 80% of their jobs by 2030, while US workers expect less impact, highlighting differing expectations.
By: Stephen Council
Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer arrested and accused of bugging the AI startup's office, will stay detained after a judge's decision Monday.
By: Stephen Council
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work.
By: Stephen Council
At Grafana Labs' ObservabilityCON, Anthropic engineering leader Katelyn Lesse says that Claude Code has completely replaced human coding on her team.
By: Stephen Council
Micro1 is pledging $1 billion to gobble up more companies' internal data for licensing to AI model developers, part of a new wave for the tech.
By: Tom Carter, Natalie Musumeci, Brent D. Griffiths
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