Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended
Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended

Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The chats were not hacked or leaked in any technical sense. User…

Starbucks’ AI tool didn’t die in a pilot. It died in 11,300 stores.
Starbucks’ AI tool didn’t die in a pilot. It died in 11,300 stores.

Starbucks told NomadGo on 3 April that it was scrapping the AI inventory tool the Redmond startup had built for it. Within days the 30-person company cut a large part of its workforce, according to GeekWire. The cuts included the technical team that ra…

AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.
AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last year’s rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software flaws between January and 27 July, already approaching the whole of…

Researchers have built a tool that can identify the AI used to make a fake video

UC Riverside researchers built SAGA, a tool that traces AI-generated fake videos back to the exact system that created them, using subtle visual patterns as digital fingerprints.

The AI wrote every security control. It skipped the question underneath
The AI wrote every security control. It skipped the question underneath

A penetration test at a financial services firm managing billions of dollars in client assets has found a critical flaw in AI-generated code. The interesting part is what the code got right. Sygnia, the incident response firm, assessed a customer onboa…

Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.
Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.

ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms pay it to run their trials. It employed roughly 40,2…

Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest
Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest

Epitel has raised $26m in a Series B round to expand a wireless EEG system that patients wear at home. Catalyst Health Ventures and Genoa Ventures co-led the round. The Salt Lake City company says it will spend the money on sales, marketing and distrib…

Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week. Neither will let you pay there
Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week. Neither will let you pay there

Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week, a day apart and at opposite ends of the market. Radisson Hotel Group launched an app on Tuesday, built with Accenture, covering more than 1,000 hotels in over 100 countries. G6 Hospitality launched a plugi…

A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%
A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%

Wall Street has spent three years paying for the companies that build AI. It is starting to pay for the companies that use it. The rotation has a number behind it. Morgan Stanley ran a systematic analysis of earnings call transcripts. It found that 25%…

Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.
Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.

Cover Genius has acquired Friendsurance, the Berlin company that invented peer-to-peer insurance. The deal took effect immediately, and neither side disclosed a price. Friendsurance built its name on a simple idea. Small groups of policyholders pool to…