Tuesday, April 14, 2026

26 articles

The Register
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Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing - it's AI!

One error in every thousand operations is one too many Quantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every...

Simon Willison
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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now

Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now The UK's AI Safety Institute recently published Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities, their own independent analysis of Claude Mythos which backs up Anthropic's claims that it is exceptionally effective at identifying security...

The Verge
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The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world

Before allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home, the 20-year-old accused attacker wrote about his fear that the AI race would cause humans to go extinct, the San Francisco Chronicle found. Two days later, Altman's home appeared to be targeted a second time, according to...

Simon Willison
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Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense

Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense OpenAI's answer to Claude Mythos appears to be a new model called GPT-5.4-Cyber: In preparation for increasingly more capable models from OpenAI over the next few months, we are fine-tuning our models specifically to enable defensive cybersecurity...

MIT Technology Review
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Redefining the future of software engineering

Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere. Second, the adoption of development operations (DevOps) and agile methodologies took software from...

The Register
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Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents

The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data. Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something...

The Verge
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Has Google’s AI watermarking system been reverse-engineered?

A software developer claims to have reverse-engineered Google DeepMind's SynthID system, showing how AI watermarks can be stripped from generated images or manually inserted into other works. A claim that, according to Google, isn't true. The developer, going by the username Aloshdenny, has...

The Verge
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Chrome now lets you turn AI prompts into repeatable ‘Skills’

Google is launching a new Chrome workflow feature that allows you to reuse your favorite Gemini commands across multiple webpages. Any AI prompts can now be saved as "Skills" in the Chrome desktop browser, letting you instantly run them across any tabs you select. "Until now, repeating an AI task -...

MIT Technology Review
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Coming soon: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

Each year we compile our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list, featuring our educated predictions for which technologies will have the biggest impact on how we live and work. This year, however, we had a dilemma. While our final picks encompass all our core coverage areas (energy, AI, and biotech,...

The Register
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The votes are in: AI will hurt elections and relationships

Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years....