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In this post, we use a lakehouse data agent to demonstrate how you can use Policy for deterministic access control and Lambda interceptors for dynamic validation. We then show how to combine Lambda in

Becoming an AI-native company is no longer the competitive advantage it was five minutes ago. Now, it’s an empirical obligation, and Dell Technologies Inc. made that case to customers at its annual fl

ESMFold2 represents an advancement in protein structure prediction leveraging scaling laws and transformer-based language models, building on principles that favor compute and data scale over hand-cra

Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes — OpenAI is announcing

Adi Robertson / The Verge: The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting — More specific

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google files its appeal of the US federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it “prevailed in the marketplace fair and square” — It wants to throw out t

View the official memo here. An internal model at OpenAI has autonomously disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field with applications in cryptography, wireless device c

The International Space Station has an ongoing air leak in its Russian PrK module that has been known since 2019 , and this leak has delayed the launch of Axiom Space's private astronaut mission . NAS

Reuters: Waymo suspends freeway rides and pauses its Atlanta operations, as it updates software to improve performance around construction zones and flooded roadways — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Waymo said

In just a short time, we’ve seen AI transition from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of function calling, code execution, and persistent terminal use. But to orchestrate these capab

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe — It explained tha

This newsletter explores three AI topics: potential weaponization risks of AI systems (framed as 'AI stuxnet'), issues with the Muon optimizer in machine learning, and progress or approaches toward po

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in res

Cointelegraph: OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of Malta AI literacy course — Cointelegraph is committed to

Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority: Google confirms it's testing a new storage policy after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get only 5GB of free storage unless they add a phone number — Up

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to 'manipulate' its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: 'In the co

ArXiv will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing obviously AI-generated content , with examples including hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot meta-comments left in

In this post, you will configure Chrome enterprise policies to restrict a browser agent to a specific website, observe the policy enforcement through session recording, and demonstrate custom root CA

OpenAI implemented improvements to help ChatGPT better understand and respond appropriately to context in sensitive conversations, such as those involving mental health, abuse, or other delicate topic

Anthropic: In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028 — We're releasing a new pape

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment — For yea

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta offers to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp for a month while it discusses commitments with EU antitrust regulators to address their concerns — Meta Platforms

In this post, we show you how to set up FLOPs tracking during LLM fine-tuning using the open source Fine-Tuning FLOPs Meter toolkit on Amazon SageMaker AI. You learn how to determine your compliance s

Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal: Princeton faculty votes to require proctoring in all in-person exams starting this summer, reversing an 1893 policy amid concerns about AI-fueled cheating — The c

If anyone, anywhere builds a superhuman artificial intelligence using present methods, the most likely outcome is catastrophe. There have accordingly been widespread calls for an international agreeme

Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced today it raised 11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadersh

This newsletter covers three main topics: the relationship between AI capabilities relative to human intelligence (RSI) and its potential economic impacts, regulatory approaches that emphasize flexibi

Washington Post: Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations — As the White House g

David Shepardson / Reuters: GM agrees to pay 12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers — GM (GM.N)

Alex Lekander / CyberInsider: EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” — The European Parliamen

OpenAI introduced a 'Trusted Contact' feature in ChatGPT that allows users to designate emergency contacts who can request access to their account in case of incapacity or death. This feature provides

In the high-stakes world of digital infrastructure, speed isn't just a metric — it’s currency. At Google Cloud Next ‘26 we announced the Bigtable in-memory tier, a breakthrough for our fully managed c

In this post, you will learn how to implement reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to introduce verification and transparency into reward signals to improve training performance. This

Dozens of US states are considering legislation to allow people to install plug-in solar systems, often called balcony solar. These small arrays require little to no setup and could help cut emissions

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling — An appeals

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training — Sara Price2, Samuel Marks2,

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June — Meta Platforms

Politico: Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models — A White House spokesperson sai

New York Times: US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare — Economists aren't sur

Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias — The good

This newsletter entry discusses advancements in automating AI research and development processes, exploring how artificial intelligence systems are becoming capable of autonomously designing and impro

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has “now dropped to zero” and that US export policy “has already largely backfired” — US export restr

Laura J. Nelson / Wall Street Journal: Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California says two ballot countermeasures to the proposed wealth tax are on track to qualify for the November ballot — Two

Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. Eng

Generative models are often deployed to make decisions on behalf of users, such as vision-language models (VLMs) identifying which person in a room is a doctor to help visually impaired individuals. Y

As enterprises push agentic AI out of the proof-of-concept phase and into production, AI runtime security — the ability to enforce policy at the exact moment an agent acts — is proving to be the bedro