Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

To Google's credit, Personal Intelligence is off by default and must be enabled per app. If Personal Intelligence is anything ...

Scripts, signs and community trust: How San Diego County districts plan to keep ICE out of schools

Across San Diego County, school district leaders have been bolstering their systems for how to deal with immigration ...
Reuters

With freebies, OpenAI, Google vie for Indian users and training data

Gemini, ChatGPT see surge in downloads and daily users in India Free AI trials aim to create user reliance and fill data gaps ChatGPT has 73 million daily users in India, twice its US base, Sensor ...
Bleeping Computer

Freedom Mobile discloses data breach exposing customer data

Freedom Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked into its customer account management platform and stole the personal information of an ...
VentureBeat

Weibo's new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence. Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open ...
CSOonline

AI startups leak sensitive credentials on GitHub, exposing models and training data

Experts say the leaks highlight how fast-growing AI firms may be prioritizing innovation over basic DevSecOps hygiene, leaving valuable intellectual property and data at risk. Nearly two-thirds of the ...
The New York Times

154,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year, a Record Number

If these pupils made up their own school system, it would be one of the 20 largest districts in the United States. The number includes those who are doubled up in crowded apartments. By Troy Closson A ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
PC World

LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI models. Here’s how to opt out

Microsoft-owned social networking site LinkedIn will soon start using the data of its users to train its AI models, reports Windows Latest. The platform has sent out emails to users about the change, ...
Bleeping Computer

Experimental PromptLock ransomware uses AI to encrypt, steal data

Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The malware uses OpenAI’s ...
The Conversation

How poisoned data can trick AI − and how to stop it

M. Hadi Amini has received funding for researching security of transportation systems from U.S. Department of Transportation. Opinions expressed represent his personal or professional opinions and do ...
Newsweek

Training AI Models Could Eat Up 4 Gigawatts of Power by 2030, Report Warns

The energy required to train large, new artificial intelligence (AI) models is growing rapidly, and a report released on Monday projects that within a few years such AI training could consume more ...