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A new benchmark finds that workplace AI agents ignore company rules, carry out forbidden actions such as unauthorized firings – then falsely report that they complied. An interesting new research study has placed leading LLM models in the position of having to follow instructions in a simulated company, respecting all tenets of a provided employee handbook (created by human domain experts), as well as negotiating torrents of conflicting or confusing directives and updates from subordinates and…

Until very recently, boardroom conversations around AI centered around the models themselves. Is their output accurate? How clean was the training data? How can we reduce bias? Are hallucinations under control? Those questions still matter, of course, but output is no longer the only thing boards and shareholders are paying attention to. Instead, they’re becoming interested in something that’s much harder to measure – whether AI systems are actually working with people as effectively as they…

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096969 Points: 206 # Comments: 132

Pressing the Copilot key on your laptop keyboard launches Copilot. But whether or not you use Microsoft's AI, you can remap the key to trigger a different feature.

As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens when designers need less permission to act.

Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line. The San Francisco-based manufacturer announced today the Hybrid BRC (Bright Robotic Cell), an expansion of its Bright Factory platform that lets human operators step inside a sensor-monitored robotic cell to perform prescribed assembly steps — without breaking the digital record that tracks every server fro

Cloudflare now supports post-quantum (PQ) authentication when connecting to customer origin servers via Authenticated Origin Pulls and Custom Origin Trust Store. This is the first step towards providing PQ authentication for all Cloudflare products.

Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans

OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API. The article GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face</p><p>OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident">carried out by a rogue AI agent</a> had more than one victim.</p><p>The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help – had located

ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in a Series F round led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the Orlando-based Zero Trust security company said on July 29, 2026. Existing backers D. E. Shaw Ventures and Arthur Ventures also took part. The company says the capital will fund continued development of the controls it already sells against AI-related security risk, further work on its Zero Trust Platform, and an international push that starts with an…

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A series of studies revealed that employees are spending less time asking their coworkers for help. Here's how that tactic could backfire and how organizations need to adapt.

AI is compressing exploit timelines. The real question isn't whether your vulnerability management playbook needs to change, it's which part of it you've been getting wrong all along. The conversation happening in security circles right now goes something like this: Mythos is here. Exploit timelines are collapsing. Does the vulnerability management playbook need to change? The honest answer is

In a joint statement, employees from the leading AI labs are calling on the US government to pursue international coordination. Their argument is simple: no single company or country can slow things down alone. The article Frontier AI developers urge international coordination to pace automated research before capabilities outstrip control appeared first on The Decoder .

More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But lately, he’s been clocking out on time and heading…

UK subscribers who watched their Microsoft 365 bill climb after Copilot turned up in Word and Outlook are now the subject of a formal consumer-law investigation. Britain's Competition and Markets Authority opened a case against Microsoft on July 27, 2026, made public two days later, over whether Personal and Family customers were given clear enough information about their options before their subscriptions renewed at a higher price. The regulator is looking at what Microsoft told those…

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Five resources covering SLM architecture, fine-tuning, agentic workflows, and local deployment for data professionals.

In this article, you will learn how Ollama, LM Studio, and llama.cpp differ across the dimensions that matter most to practitioners, and how to choose...

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon - nonfiction tomes that he […]

This is the opening piece of a four-part deep dive series, on building a high-frequency streaming pipeline against a live public API. The data source is openSenseMap, a citizen-science IoT network used for climate research, mostly in Germany. A live public API is what makes it useful: it produces data-quality problems and edge cases that clean sample datasets never show. This article focuses on step-1: Normalization, later pieces cover matching algorithms, adaptive polling and noise filtering, a

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog […]

OpenAI has released Codex Security CLI, an open-source tool that automatically detects and fixes vulnerabilities in code repositories. Previously known internally as "Aardvark," the system has already helped fix more than 3,000 critical security flaws, according to OpenAI. It competes directly with Anthropic's Claude Security, as both AI companies race to match the growing automation of cyberattacks with AI-powered defense. The article OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI to help developers fi

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24964 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096233 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Enterprise AI is entering a new phase. After several years of pilots, proofs of concept and experimentation, organizations are shifting their focus from what AI can do to how it can become a reliable part of everyday business operations. That shift reflects a broader evolution in how business leaders evaluate AI. Early conversations centered on the capabilities of large language models and whether AI could automate work traditionally performed by people. Today, executives are asking different…

The debate around AI in elder care often starts with the wrong fear: that technology will replace human caregivers. Emotionally, it is a powerful argument, but it rests on a false premise. It assumes there is a trained, available, fairly paid person ready to support every older adult who needs help, and that AI is arriving to push that person aside. But that is not the reality of elder care in the United States. For many older adults, especially those living alone, the alternative to AI is no…

I had one API. It had three endpoints, an API key header, and pagination on the list endpoint. Nothing fancy, but not a toy either. Continue reading on UX Planet »

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public administration. Industry leaders talk about “AI for everyone,” while governments rush to publish national AI strategies and build sovereign compute. Yet over the past decade, working on digital inclusion and digital literacy

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO […]

Thanks to the surge in local AI processing and the ongoing memory shortage, it’s incredibly difficult to buy a Mac Mini.

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

Generative AI has expanded beyond coding assistants and content creation tools, finding its way into legal research and case preparation. While the technology has helped legal professionals quickly generate documents and explore potential legal strategies within minutes, AI adoption has fueled the rise of vibe lawyering where individuals use AI to complete legal tasks with minimal independent verification. With recent incidents involving fabricated case citations, the dangers of relying on AI…

One in four malicious data breaches involved attackers using AI, according to the 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report IBM published on July 29, 2026. Those breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughly $1 million above the $4.99 million global average IBM reports across its full sample, and the share of malicious breaches with an AI component rose 56% from the prior edition. The figures come from a survey, and that shapes how much weight they carry. Ponemon Institute conducted the research; IBM…