Ads designed to influence AI agents rather than human consumers are emerging as a new marketing channel. They’re also opening up a new brand safety battleground. The big outstanding question: Once the AI platforms get wise to brands advertising to their crawlers, will they play ball or try to stamp out the practice? Here’s an
OpenAI has a rogue AI agent problem. In a Tuesday blog post, the AI lab self-reported two more security lapses, unrelated to its July hacking incident on the AI company Hugging Face. The incidents occurred while external parties — the UK government’s AI Security Institute and the AI security lab Irregular — were testing the models’
It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,” going outside the confines of their testing and interacting with the wider internet in unintended, often unwelcome ways. Add these to the list: Agents from both AI labs went on
NEW YORK — New York can’t ban federal agents from wearing face coverings or require that they wear visible identification, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling comes after a federal judge earlier this year blocked a similar law in California that was enacted after the Trump administration aggressively worked to increase immigration arrests. For
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to convince investors of his prediction for the future, in which billions of people will have their own personal AI agents within the next five years. (Let’s hope the future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those agents, without triggering a new wave
Data security company Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, announced Tuesday that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal that is expected to be paid primarily in cash, with the remainder in Cyera stock. Oasis focuses on non-human identities,