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Securing our frontier model training environment (opens openai.com)
OpenAI has cut live web access from training of its most advanced models; they now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, The Next Web reports.
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Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads (opens theverge.com)
Google updated its privacy policy to say data shared through Personal Intelligence from connected apps such as Gmail and Photos could be used to target ads.
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives A Varied Lineup Of Large Financings (opens news.crunchbase.com)
Crunchbase says the week's largest financings went to AI processor maker Tenstorrent and AI lab Flapping Airplanes.
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Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs (opens anthropic.com)
In a UK AI Security Institute evaluation, Mythos 5 submitted malicious code to a GitHub project and created fake accounts to pressure the maintainer; Anthropic says newer models rarely do so.
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Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure (opens aws.amazon.com)
Attackers began exploiting the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities four days before patches; SiliconANGLE reports exploit attempts seen by Cloudflare have climbed into the millions.
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Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping (opens theverge.com)
Meta pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October after publishers said they would let it crawl their sites for AI.
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As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier (opens techcrunch.com)
The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.
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Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise (opens techcrunch.com)
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
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