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GeekWire File Photo Amazon is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of the layoffs it made this week in its artificial general intelligence organization, but said its frontier model research lab will continue. A company spokesperson confirmed the news of the site closure, which was first reported by The Information. Amazon’s frontier model research work will carry on under Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley professor who joined Amazon in 2024 when the company licensed the technology and hired the team from Covariant, the robotics startup he co-founded. The AGI Lab was founded in December 2024 and initially built…

Climate change has now become a problem for the whole solar system. On Friday, wildfires in Spain overran one of three observatories the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses to connect with spacecraft, including Voyager 1, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the recently completed Artemis mission around the Moon.Spain declared a wildfire emergency as multiple blazes burned out of control near Madrid, with evacuation orders in place for 60,000 people. The affected area includes Robledo de Chavela, a municipality near the Deep Space Communications Complex run by NASA.Dramatic images captured by news photographers showed the radio telescopes surrounded…

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Meta Platforms Inc. today made its latest large language model available to consumers through its Meta AI chatbot. The update is rolling out alongside several enhancements to Facebook. Meta’s flagship social network is receiving a new video-based account verification tool. Additionally, users can now access the Facebook Marketplace e-commerce platform through a mobile app. Meta AI is a free AI service with a similar feature set to ChatGPT. Today’s update switched the chatbot to Muse Spark 1.1, an LLM that Meta introduced earlier this month. The model supports prompts with up to 1 million tokens and can create groups of…

Endpoint agents are the foundation of any effective endpoint detection and response strategy. Fidelis Endpoint® deploys a single lightweight agent per endpoint device. No separate AV process, no secondary forensic collector, no additional endpoint security tools stacked on top of each other. One agent handles prevention, detection, investigation, forensics, and automated response across Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems, through the same management interface.Every process and child process is monitored continuously. Behavioral patterns, registry changes, file operations, and network activity are captured in real time and stored in the Endpoint Collector, a centralized behavioral metadata store retaining 30, 60, or…

Anthropic has released a new Claude model, Opus 5, bringing it close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. The new model produces the strongest work performance the company has released, with even more gains in its coding capabilities.  In a fight for AI supremacy, Anthropic joins Google and OpenAI, which earlier this month released new AI models — all of which are more efficient and better at certain tasks. While Fable 5 remains Anthropic’s most “ambitious” work, the latest model excels in enterprise with its coding capabilities and more.  Anthropic says Opus 5’s strengths lie…

In an unprecedented AI safety incident, OpenAI disclosed that its pre-release AI models – including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed next-gen model – broke out of their sandbox and carried out a real-world multi-stage attack on Hugging Face’s production servers to steal answers for a cybersecurity benchmark.  How the breakout happened: The setup: OpenAI was evaluating models on ExploitGym, a benchmark designed to test sophisticated, multi-step cyber exploitation. To measure full capabilities, safety guardrails were intentionally disabled and the models were placed in a highly isolated research environment with restricted network access (limited to an internal package registry proxy). Specification…

Financial services brands spent years running AI pilots. The ones winning on customer experience aren’t piloting anymore. They’re deploying at scale. Financial services has never had a shortage of customer data. Banks know when you get paid. Insurers know your risk profile down to your postcode. Wealth managers know your portfolio, your goals, your risk appetite, sometimes your tax situation. No other industry sits on this much behavioral and financial intelligence about the people it serves. And yet, for most customers, interacting with a financial services brand still feels like calling a number and waiting. That gap, between the data…

The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in social engineering campaigns designed to deliver malware. “BlueNoroff has operationalised trust abuse by combining compromised industry contacts, social engineering, wallet reconnaissance and malware delivery into a repeatable victim acquisition pipeline,” JUMPSEC said in a detailed report shared with The Hacker News. “The platform profiles victims’ cryptocurrency wallets before malware delivery, enabling selective targeting of high-value victims.” Describing the campaign as an operator-driven victim acquisition platform, the cybersecurity company…

[This is a press release by the National Technology & Innovation Sandbox (NTIS).] The National Technology and Innovation Sandbox (NTIS) has been named a Champion at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2026 in Geneva, under Category 14: Action Line 7: E-science. An annual global awards programme, WSIS Prizes celebrates outstanding digital and ICT-based initiatives that advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The contest is organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and highlight success stories from government, private sectors, civil society, and academia. Category 14: Action Line 7: E-science, focuses on leveraging information and communication…