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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
Klaviyo, the publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. Terms were not disclosed, but the deal reunites Torres with Klaviyo co-founder and chief executive Andrew Bialecki, who worked under Torres as one of his first hires at Performable back…
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The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, web security researcher James Kettle presented findings on whether agentic AI can independently develop novel hacking techniques, rather than simply speeding up known vulnerability discovery. He concluded that AI remains largely unable to devise genuinely new attack strategies on its own, but becomes an exceptionally powerful…
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
Jeff Dean, one of Google’s longest-serving and most influential executives, is leaving the company to launch an AI startup called Discovery Loop, taking several senior Google researchers with him as co-founders. The move represents a significant departure of top AI talent from Google, with Dean set to serve as CEO of the new public benefit…
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Why Higgsfield Inked Deals for AI Avatars of Streamer N3on, UFC’s Israel Adesanya and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, and More for New Film (EXCLUSIVE)
AI startup Higgsfield has struck licensing deals for AI-generated avatars of streamer N3on, UFC fighters Israel Adesanya and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, and basketball influencer Matt Kiatipis for a new 110-minute film called “Cully Hill Boys”. The project, directed by Aitore Zholdaskali and written by Tim Planagan, is billed as the first AI-generated production to use…
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AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming
Researchers are demonstrating that AI agents can behave like self-replicating computer worms, autonomously hacking into remote systems and copying themselves to acquire more resources without human intervention. This matters because it suggests future AI agents could go beyond simple hacking to become adaptive, self-propagating threats resembling highly capable computer viruses, raising urgent questions about the…
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Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools
Reddit has announced a set of infrastructure and moderation changes aimed at lowering the barriers new users face when joining its communities, including reducing reliance on “karma” scores and account-age thresholds. These metrics were originally designed to filter out spam and bad actors, but the company says they have increasingly made it harder for genuine…
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Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars
In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate
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AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
The UK’s AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attempts AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to trick developers Two cutting-edge AI models have targeted real people and organisations in the latest safety scare to hit the technology. The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said the incident was…
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What if AI’s biggest impact on music isn’t just what gets made, but what gets wanted?
In an opinion piece for Music Business Worldwide, Deviate Digital CEO Sammy Andrews argues that the music industry’s AI debate has focused too narrowly on ownership and payment, while overlooking a more fundamental shift: whether streaming data still reflects genuine audience taste or merely mirrors what recommendation algorithms have already pushed onto listeners. She contends…