ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase [...]
Microsoft tells employees to stop tokenmaxxing, sets division-level AI budgets
Microsoft executive vice president Jay Parikh has told employees in an internal email that the company needs to rein in its AI token consumption, writing that “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimi [...]
Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected
For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO [...]
Patreon cut 20% of its staff. Its CEO insists AI isn’t replacing them.
Patreon is cutting a fifth of its staff. Its founder wants you to know it is not because of AI. On Thursday the creator-payments company laid off 93 people, about 20% of its workforce, as 404 Media fi [...]
Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The contex [...]
An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.
A security startup’s autonomous AI agent found 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the open-source media library embedded in almost everything that touches video. The startup, depthfirs [...]
