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OpenAI counter-sues Elon Musk for attempts to ‘take down’ AI rival

July 12, 2020 | AI News
OpenAI counter-sues Elon Musk for attempts to ‘take down’ AI rival
The court filing, submitted to the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges Musk could not tolerate OpenAI’s success after he had “abandoned and declared [it] doomed.”OpenAI is now seeking legal remedies, including an injunction to stop Musk’s alleged “unlawful and unfair action” and compensation for damages already caused. Origin story of OpenAI and the departure of Elon MuskThe legal documents recount OpenAI’s origins in 2015, s

BCG: Analysing the geopolitics of generative AI

October 19, 2018 | AI News
BCG: Analysing the geopolitics of generative AI

ChatGPT got another viral moment with ‘AI action figure’ trend

April 4, 2022 | AI News
ChatGPT got another viral moment with ‘AI action figure’ trend

DolphinGemma: Google AI model understands dolphin chatter

June 19, 2023 | AI News
DolphinGemma: Google AI model understands dolphin chatter
With around 400 million parameters, DolphinGemma is optimised to run efficiently, even on the Google Pixel smartphones WDP uses for data collection in the field.As WDP begins deploying the model this season, it promises to accelerate research significantly. By automatically flagging patterns and reliable sequences previously requiring immense human effort to find, it can help researchers uncover hidden structures and potential meanings within the dolphins’

Apple leans on synthetic data to upgrade AI privately

April 26, 2025 | AI News
Apple leans on synthetic data to upgrade AI privately

Meta will train AI models using EU user data

March 31, 2020 | AI News
Meta will train AI models using EU user data

Huawei's AI hardware breakthrough challenges Nvidia's dominance

December 13, 2018 | AI News
Huawei's AI hardware breakthrough challenges Nvidia's dominance

Meta FAIR advances human-like AI with five major releases

May 13, 2015 | AI News
Meta FAIR advances human-like AI with five major releases

Red Hat on open, small language models for responsible, practical AI - AI News

August 13, 2016 | AI News
Red Hat on open, small language models for responsible, practical AI - AI News

Google launches A2A as HyperCycle advances AI agent interoperability - AI News

June 20, 2024 | AI News
Google launches A2A as HyperCycle advances AI agent interoperability - AI News
AI agents handle increasingly complex and recurring tasks, such as planning supply chains and ordering equipment. As organisations deploy more agents developed by different vendors on different frameworks, agents can end up siloed, unable to coordinate or communicate. Lack of interoperability remains a challenge for organisations, with different agents making conflicting recommendations. It’s difficult to create standardised AI workflows, and agent integra

AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics. | CSO Online

October 27, 2015 | CSO AI
AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics. | CSO Online
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Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab - Help Net Security

December 29, 2019 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab - Help Net Security
Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had defined. The Booz Allen frontier AI OT test architecture (Source: Booz Allen) The models mapped the network, tied equipment to known weaknesses, wrote working exploits, pivoted into the systems that run production, and in t

Be a good AI ancestor: Cybersecurity already gave us the playbook - Help Net Security

February 1, 2015 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Be a good AI ancestor: Cybersecurity already gave us the playbook - Help Net Security
Be a good AI ancestor: Cybersecurity already gave us the playbook AI has brought us to a familiar inflection point in the story of privacy, cybersecurity, and online safety. We have an opportunity to apply decades of cybersecurity experience before the next generation of technology creates consequences we cannot easily reverse. I learned the importance of that responsibility through a three-year-old child I’ll call Adia. Her name is a protective pseudonym.

Meta outlines Muse Wonder safeguards for AI agents acting on your behalf - Help Net Security

July 10, 2022 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Meta outlines Muse Wonder safeguards for AI agents acting on your behalf - Help Net Security
Meta outlines Muse Wonder safeguards for AI agents acting on your behalf Meta’s Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The models combine document analysis and tool use with the ability to retain relevant details across conversations and work through obstacles toward a user’s goal. Intended for commercial and research use, they support w

Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise lets companies block shadow AI in the browser - Help Net Security

July 10, 2015 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise lets companies block shadow AI in the browser - Help Net Security
Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise lets companies block shadow AI in the browser Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise is a paid platform that lets organizations control how sensitive data is shared, check device security, and manage employee access to web applications. The platform pairs the browser with a management dashboard hosted on an organization’s own infrastructure. IT teams can set policies across their workforce, restrict AI tools, and connect browser activity

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings - Help Net Security

September 12, 2019 | HelpNetSecurity AI
OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings - Help Net Security
OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of one of the company’s engineers. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who had worked at OpenAI as an engineer since July 2025, was arrested on October 9 and charged with using or endeavoring t

AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery - Help Net Security

September 18, 2017 | HelpNetSecurity AI
AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery - Help Net Security
AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery 83.4% of respondents who use DevOps practices run CI/CD pipelines, making them the most widely adopted practice in that group, according to JetBrains’ The State of CI/CD in 2026 report. Adoption exceeds that of containerisation and orchestration, infrastructure as code, GitOps and platform engineering. CI/CD is still at the center of software delivery (Source: JetBrains) Client demands and

Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families - Help Net Security

October 1, 2015 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families - Help Net Security
Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The survey covered 1,200 IT and security professionals at organizations that had experienced at least one successful ransomware attack. “Ransomware has proven to be a great cash-generating activity for criminal syndicates, which have no hesitation about

Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta - Help Net Security

August 31, 2023 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta - Help Net Security
Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. Meta’s Muse generated 29.1 million requests between September 22 and October 3, its first 12 days of full availability. In a sample of Muse traffic, 99.3% of requests came from cloud and CDN infrastructure. Nearly half of the

Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks - Help Net Security

August 21, 2022 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks - Help Net Security
Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four times the share of any other brand. Top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks (Source: Check Point) Apple and Google followed with 8% each. Dropbox and YouTube recorded the biggest climbs in the r