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Banking regulators in the US and Europe are stepping up efforts to contain the risks AI poses to banks, Reuters reported, citing six people familiar with the matter. Some fear that cyberattacks or rogue AI agents could shake the financial system.
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The headline feature of the new HomePod mini 2 is support for Siri AI, something that won’t be available for the first-gen model. But there’s hope that existing full size HomePods may also get access to the smarter intelligent assistant.
The “sophisticated recording device” was discovered by OpenAI on or around September 30 in one of its San Francisco offices. The company determined that it had been planted a few days earlier. Its security team tried to export the microSD card’s data but couldn’t examine it because it was encrypted.
An OpenAI engineer has been charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications and is facing up to five years in prison plus a $250,000 fine.
AI and toilet paper: the joke writes itself, doesn’t it?
A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple’s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI’s request to throw the case out. Apple won part of its expedited discovery on Tuesday, and was refused part of it.
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said.
Uvi, a startup that feeds company knowledge to AI agents, has emerged from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding. CT Innovations and Cardumen led the funding round, with Mana VC, 91 Ventures, and Gaingles VC also participating.
American manufacturers can often make a part faster than they can get a quote back to the customer asking for it. That mismatch is the result of decades of automation reaching the shop floor, but rarely the office around it.
Evolutionary Operating System, Inc. (Evos), the company building autonomous operators for the physical economy, came out of stealth, announcing $9M in pre-seed funding. Uncork Capital and Field Ventures co-led the round.
Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials outside China, with German customer Henkel joining as an investor. The new production network is going to the US and Japan, not Europe.
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