From Private Chats to Ocean Depths: AI Is Everywhere—But at What Cost?
WhatsApp rolls out AI message summaries, Claude builds apps, and Mattel dives in—while new warnings emerge over ethics, insider threats, and careless data leaks.
WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages
Emma Roth/ The Verge
Lost in the frenzy of group chats? With WhatsApp's new AI feature, you can avoid scrolling through endless "lols" and birthday plans by having your private conversations summarised.
Scale AI Leaks Meta, Google, xAI Confidential Files Through ‘Incredibly Janky’ Document Practices
Liz Ticong/ TechRepublic
Unfortunately, the secrets of important AI players were revealed. A Scale AI-related leak exposes inadequate management of private information from xAI, Google, and Meta. The business is flinching.
Meta’s AI copyright win comes with a warning about fair use
Jay Peters/ The Verge
Although Meta recently won a lawsuit involving AI and copyright, the court issued a sobering warning: fair use has its bounds, and the next case could go the other way.
Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot
Jay Peters/ The Verge
Claude simply got his hands dirty. With Anthropic's AI, you can now quickly create basic apps without knowing any code. Imagine ChatGPT combined with a do-it-yourself app wizard.
Creatio CRM Introduces 8.3 Twin, a ‘Clear Route to Accelerated AI Adoption’
Megan Crouse/ TechRepublic
Get your CRM game up a notch with Creatio's latest 8.3 Twin release. It promises to help businesses implement AI more smoothly and intelligently because it is designed for speed and scalability.
Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals
Jess Weatherbed/ The Verge
The command-line version of Google's Gemini AI is now available. Because sometimes the most intelligent assistant operates in plain text, developers can communicate with AI technologies straight from the terminal.
Meta boss praises new US army division enlisting tech execs as lieutenant colonels
Robert Booth/ The Guardian
Yes, IT executives are enlisting as reserve officers in the U.S. Army. The CTO of Meta supports it, describing it as a daring fusion of digital innovation and defence.
AI Agents Are Creating Insider Security Threat Blind Spots, Research Finds
Fiona Jackson/ TechRepublic
Your helpful AI colleague might pose a security threat. AI agents may create blind spots in insider threat detection, according to new research, which raises concerns in IT circles.
Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds
MIT News
AI is literally going deep. A recent research combines underwater photography and machine intelligence to reveal amazing marine life that has never been seen before.
How Leaders Can Fix Failing AI Ethics
Shane Culbertson/ Towards AI
AI ethics are fantastic—until they are disregarded. In the era of independent decision-making, this manual describes how leaders might transition from ambiguous pledges to actual accountability.
Mattel and OpenAI’s Partnership and the Need for A.I. Regulation
Jessica Grose/ New York Times
Barbie meets bots: Mattel and OpenAI are collaborating to add intelligence to their toys. However, the lighthearted collaboration also prompts pressing demands for more precise AI regulations.