AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over Congress this fall. Their map, though, is becoming more forgiving.
Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should demanded more.
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead
In June, a FEMA official infamous for claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House was reportedly ousted. He’s still employed by the government, though—and meeting with a Trump fixer.
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. The settlement stems from a nationwide lawsuit alleging Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap failed to protect children and made their platforms "addictive" by design.
Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.
The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.
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The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts’…
Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem.
As culture warriors continue to stoke the flames of a gender panic in professional sports, wild conspiracy theories are coming into play.
The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.
Beijing’s endlessly delightful Robot Games featured tons of impressive stunts. But the most mind-blowing tricks challenged the humanoid’s brain, not its brawn.
It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn't expect us to spend so much of our son's first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat. As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone, effective for at least the next three days. "Dangerously ho