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No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.
Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting information about biological weapons by gradually steering conversations around the models’ restrictions, the Wall Street Journal reported. Amy Chang, Cisco’s h...
thenextweb.com | -238 mins agoThis $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom
Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares has raised $470mn, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with Point72 Ventures, Shine Capital and Industrious Ventures joining. The split is $370mn of equ...
thenextweb.com | -224 mins agoOpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere
OpenAI is expanding its European headquarters in Dublin with 250 new jobs and an 88,000-square-foot lease at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse in the city’s Docklands. The company currently employs around 100 people in Ireland and established its European presence there in 2023. The n...
thenextweb.com | -209 mins agoA Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat those models as assets rather ...
thenextweb.com | -209 mins agoDiscord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers
The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”. That single sentence explains the whole filing. A California ...
thenextweb.com | -185 mins agoA development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years
A development bank has just minted a unicorn, and it took two years. Ominimo, a Budapest-based motor insurance startup founded by Serbian and Hungarian entrepreneurs, has closed a Series B led by the venture arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The round i...
thenextweb.com | -166 mins agoWaymo keeps parking in tow-away zones in Austin. It has been fined 64 times.
Waymo’s robotaxis have accumulated 83 parking citations and $9,325 in fines in Austin since the fleet arrived in 2024, according to city records obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The company has paid most of them. The more revealing number is 64: the count of violations involv...
thenextweb.com | -164 mins agoCXMT’s founder is giving 40% of his new fortune to his workers
Zhu Yiming got about $10bn richer on Monday. He has promised to give roughly $5.6bn of it away, and not to charity. The chairman of CXMT saw his fortune climb nearly 300% to $13.9bn when the memory chipmaker closed its Shanghai debut up 466%, according to the Bloomberg Billionair...
thenextweb.com | -151 mins agoVolkswagen wants tariff protection after Chinese brands grab 28% of Europe’s PHEV market
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is demanding the European Union impose higher tariffs on Chinese plug-in hybrids after the Tiguan PHEV dropped from Europe’s best-selling plug-in hybrid to fourth place in a single year. The BYD Seal U now leads the segment, followed by the BYD Atto 2 ...
thenextweb.com | -129 mins agoNuclear Turbines raises £15M for compact reactors it says could undercut fossil fuels
Nuclear power usually arrives with a very large price tag and a very long wait. Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester startup spun out of BAE Systems, has raised £15M to argue that it need not be either, at a moment when nuclear power startups across Europe are pulling in record amounts...
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