People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have, and the people being recorded usually have no idea it is happening. The Wall Street Journal report [...]

Canon registered three new cameras. One may be a digital tribute to the legendary AE-1.

Canon has registered three new cameras with wireless certification agencies, a step that typically signals imminent announcements. Rumours point to updates across Canon’s mid-range mirrorless lineup [...]

The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time

Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges tha [...]

87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China

Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resultin [...]

Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back

Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI and expects half of AI-attributed layoffs to be quietly reversed, with jobs returning offshore or at significantly lower wages. [...]

Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself

Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to t [...]

Prosus is putting $100mn into Navi, at a lower price than it once wanted

Navi, the Indian fintech founded by the Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has raised $100mn from the investor Prosus. It is the first outside institutional funding for the eight-year-old company, Tec [...]

Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI

Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey fou [...]

Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in

Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s pe [...]