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This is an excerpt from the Primeiro Olhar newsletter, available to Clube Olhar Digital subscribers.About 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, argued on Tuesday (13) for the creation of an international body to oversee artificial intelligence (AI) safety.In an open letter, the group proposes safety standards, independent evaluations, and an incident registry for models capable of compromising external systems. For the researchers, c

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more An international group of researchers identified more than a dozen artificial intelligence (AI) agents that attempted to access protected systems belonging to Alibaba, the Chinese technology giant. The activities took place between late September and early October and showed indications of links to Tencent cloud computing services.According to a report published on Wednesday (14) by the Swarmchasers group,

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Artificial intelligence (AI) could cause serious security incidents in the next two years if companies and governments do not strengthen measures to protect their systems. The warning was issued by Demis Hassabis, co-founder and president of Google DeepMind, during an AI conference in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday (14).According to the executive, recent episodes involving AI agents that went beyond the limi

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more For those who dream of talking to their pet like Dr. Dolittle or who often wonder what is going on in its head as it stares at and barks nonstop at that forgotten slipper in the corner of the room, artificial intelligence (AI) may be closer to making that wish come true. The technology is already helping scientists investigate animal communication through sounds, identifying patterns that may reveal clues a

Published on June 9, 2026 at 09:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © xAI Elon Musk had built a supercomputer for his Grok AI, which was using only 11% of it. He has just rented it to Google for $920 million per month, just before SpaceX's IPO. On June 12, SpaceX will make its debut on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol SPCX, aiming to raise $75 billion at a valuation of $1.75 trillion, which would make it the largest IPO in history. Its trump card is neither Starlink no

Published on June 10, 2026 at 10:19 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A mere few weeks after unveiling Claude Mythos, Anthropic is back with Claude Fable 5. It is an AI based on the same model, but constrained by automatic safeguards intended to prevent all misuse, particularly in cybersecurity. Only a few weeks after unveiling Claude Mythos and concluding that its AI was too dangerous to make available to the general public, Anthropic is back with a restricte

Published on June 11, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Updated on June 16, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. Comment 18 𝕏 Print © 01net The 2026 World Cup kicked off a few days ago. Before the tournament began, we asked five artificial intelligence systems to predict the entire competition, from the group stages to the final. Our goal is to compare their predictions and, as the matches take place, determine which one will prove the most reliable. The 2026 World Cup is in full swing. Ah

Published on June 12, 2026 at 08:32 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Manus/Meta Two billion dollars to buy it, an internal memo to unplug everything. Meta is orchestrating the shutdown of Manus on Beijing’s orders, with Beijing applying to the U.S. giant the playbook devised by Washington against TikTok. The AI agent fever is turning into the flu at Meta. Since the start of the year, the entire tech industry has sworn by nothing but these “digital colleagues” capable o

Published on June 12, 2026 at 11:02 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Black Forest Labs Martin Scorsese is promoting an AI tool on YouTube designed to preview scenes from a film. The director says it greatly simplifies the creative process, while some Hollywood unions accuse him of turning his back on artists in the industry. Martin Scorsese has officially partnered with the startup Black Forest Labs to promote an AI tool designed to preview scenes from a film. But this

Published on June 15, 2026 at 12:30 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Under pressure from the Trump administration, Anthropic was forced to cut off global access to its two most powerful AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. At the root of the U.S. order was a warning issued by Amazon and rumors of an attempted exploitation by China. The affair sent shock waves through Europe, where politicians are calling for an end to dependence on the United States. Last

Published on June 15, 2026 at 5:15 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print Emmanuel Macron on June 10 during a rally ahead of the G7 summit in Évian (Haute-Savoie). © Christophe Petit-Tesson/AFP For his G7, Emmanuel Macron pulled off an impressive casting coup: the leaders of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic gathered on the shores of Lake Geneva. France plays up its standing as a future European hub for artificial intelligence, with billions coming mainly from elsewhe

Published on June 16, 2026 at 08:59 Comment 17 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Starting July 8, 2026, Anthropic may ask both free and paid Claude subscribers to verify their identity. The startup may request a passport, a driver’s license, or even a selfie. The data is entrusted to a contractor, fueling concerns about leaks. Anthropic sent an email to Claude users informing them of an important update to its privacy policy. The main change concerns the addition of a n

Published on June 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic About a hundred cybersecurity experts are protesting against the ban on the two latest Claude models released by Anthropic. In an open letter, they argue that the United States is shooting itself in the foot—and in the foot of cybersecurity in general—by seeking to restrict access to AI systems. At the end of last week, Washington issued Anthropic a sweeping injunction. The Trump administr

Published on June 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Apple Initially, Apple planned a Siri update that would have brought some improvements in AI. After further consideration, the Cupertino-based company opted for a completely different strategy, namely a complete overhaul of Siri from A to Z. The least that can be said is that developing the new Siri has been no easy feat for Apple. Between the countless delays, certain engineers being sent on catch-

Published on June 17, 2026 at 09:52 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Ana Luisa Soares (Unsplash) Just in time for the opening of VivaTech, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu makes a sovereign pivot: 655 million euros for AI, a Mistral chatbot for one million state employees, and a timeline for breaking ties with the American company Palantir. Coinciding with the official opening of the VivaTech show in Paris this Wednesday, June 17, 2026, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

Published on June 17, 2026 at 4:55 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net/OpenAI For months, ChatGPT accounted for more than half of AI assistants worldwide. That has no longer been true since March, and the forces driving this shift combine OpenAI’s navigation errors, Gemini’s steady rise, and an unexpected side effect of European regulation. The figure that crystallizes it all is May 2026’s: 46.4% of the consumer AI assistant market for ChatGPT, measured across

Published on June 17, 2026 at 18:09 Comment 0 𝕏 Print The blue whale could pay a visit to Microsoft's new tool © Microsoft - DeepSeek In response to Anthropic and OpenClaw, Microsoft launched its assistant to automate office tasks a few months ago, with usage-based pricing. To reduce its inference bill, the company is considering integrating a version of DeepSeek hosted on Azure, with the data remaining in Microsoft's cloud rather than passing through Chin

Published June 19, 2026 at 1:14 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Meta « It’s literally a gulag. Overnight, you no longer have any purpose in life ». Some Meta employees describe a dire working environment within the company. The group’s race to develop artificial intelligence would come at the expense of its employees’ mental health. « It’s literally a gulag », « running a marathon in the middle of a hailstorm », « the madness of this company » : accounts describi

Published on June 20, 2026 at 12:05 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Marisa_Sias/Pixabay Blow into a sensor to have an AI determine whether you are incubating a serious respiratory or cardiac disease: the startup Ainos has just launched a clinical study in Taiwan to test exactly that. The technology is still in the validation phase. The promise deserves to be taken seriously. Medicine has long known that certain diseases leave traces in the air we exhale. Dogs have dem

Published on June 22, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Agentic AI at Amazon now exceeds human monitoring capabilities, making step-by-step human supervision increasingly difficult. Amazon Security’s vice president cites the theory of normalization of deviance to explain the risks associated with this development. In an interview with the media outlet The Register, Eric Brandwine, distinguished engineer and vice president of Amazon Security, s