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This tiny cybersecurity startup managed to hack OpenAI using Claude, and won a $6,500 bounty
A small AI startup used Claude to hack into OpenAI’s internal codebase shortly after the OpenAI Hugging Face hack. Zayne Zhang, the cofounder and CEO of Hacktron, told Business Insider that his research team has begun investigating security vulnerabilities at frontier AI companies like OpenAI to…
A renowned computer scientist once skeptical of the AI singularity now says humanity is ‘certainly at risk’
A lot of X posts, prose, and proselytizing have been spilled on the internet recently about the impending AI apocalypse and whether we’ve passed the point of no return. Here’s another one eloquently put by the acclaimed theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson, whose research has helped us…
Taboola is buying a rival adtech company to gain a bigger foothold with lucrative finance clients
Taboola is expanding its empire. The adtech company exclusively told CMO Insider it has made an offer to acquire Dianomi, a fellow adtech firm specializing in the finance space. Similar to Taboola, Dianomi offers an ad network that places sponsored-content widgets across publisher websites. The…
The ‘Godfather of AI’ says the US government has one year to try to regulate AI before it gets ‘out of control’
US lawmakers may have only about a year to put meaningful guardrails around artificial intelligence before AI advances to the point where it could become “out of control,” warned the “Godfather of AI.” Speaking after a briefing with members of Congress on Wednesday, Geoffrey Hinton said the window…
Anthropic says Claude is now leading more than a quarter of its AI research
Claude is taking on a growing share of the work behind Anthropic’s next-generation AI. Anthropic said in a Thursday blog post that Claude now “leads” 26% of its AI research and development work, meaning the chatbot can complete most of a task from a high-level prompt while a human supervises. The…
Oprah Winfrey says people-pleasing led her to make a career decision she knew was wrong
Oprah Winfrey, 72, said she made a career decision she knew was wrong, simply because she didn’t want to disappoint others. Speaking on Thursday’s episode of “The Mel Robbins Podcast,” Winfrey reflected on the difficult early years of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Winfrey launched OWN in January…
We quit our jobs to travel the world. Now my wife and I run her family’s farm in South Korea.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kang “Kay” Soo-il, a 39-year-old South Korean national who quit his job and traveled, before returning home to run a farm. It has been edited for length and clarity. Eight years ago, at 31, I was living in a Korean city south of Seoul, and…
How Millionaire Televangelists Actually Work, According to a Pastor
Costi Hinn is an American pastor and author known for publicly criticizing the “prosperity gospel” televangelism model popularized by his uncle, Benny Hinn. He spent years participating in international healing crusades and ministry events associated with the Benny Hinn organization, before…
Universal says it plans to release the documentary Elon Musk hates in theaters
Comcast’s Universal is going ahead with plans to show a new Elon Musk documentary in theaters outside the US, the company says. The reason that’s news is that a recent story from The Hollywood Reporter said that Universal was having second thoughts about releasing “Musk,” which is highly critical…
Billionaire investor David Einhorn says younger people are too ‘impatient’ to build wealth or buy a house
David Einhorn says younger generations’ own habits are holding them back from breaking into the housing market or building wealth. The billionaire founder of Greenlight Capital recently speculated about the reasons younger Americans are falling behind in homeownership. The main reason, in Einhorn’s…