Content scoring tools work, but only for the first gate in Google’s pipeline

Google’s first-stage retrieval still runs on word matching, not AI magic. Here’s how to use content scoring tools accordingly ...
Tech Xplore

Jailbreaking the matrix: How researchers are bypassing AI guardrails to make them safer

A paper written by University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, or CISE, Professor Sumit Kumar Jha, Ph ...
Yahoo Finance

Snowflake Unveils Cortex Code, An AI Coding Agent That Drastically Increases Productivity by Understanding Your Enterprise Data Context

Cortex Code, Snowflake’s AI coding agent, helps customers like Braze, Decile, dentsu, FYUL, LendingTree, Shelter Mutual Insurance, TextNow, United Rentals, and WHOOP perform complex data engineering, ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious AI extensions on VSCode Marketplace steal developer data

Two malicious extensions in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers. Both extensions are ...
Wall Street Journal

Caterpillar’s Surging Stock Is Fueled by AI, Not Yellow Excavators

An ambitious data-center project in Utah is going to need about one-quarter of the power the entire state currently uses. David Gray, co-chief executive for the project’s developer, knows he can’t get ...
USA Today

Tonight's Powerball jackpot is $1.25B! Let us help you pick your numbers

Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot, but maybe Santa will see how good we've been this year. Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot has now reached $1 ...
Dark Reading

Copilot's No-Code AI Agents Liable to Leak Company Data

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are a breeze to create using Microsoft Copilot Studio, and almost just as easy to manipulate into divulging sensitive corporate data. Despite broad security ...
Fast Company

Factories generate data, but why can’t they use it?

If manufacturing is the world’s most data-rich sector, why do so many factories still lean on Post-it notes, color-coded paper, binders, and employee intuition? Manufacturers generate more data than ...
KUOW

Should WA data centers generate their own clean energy to get tax breaks?

In one of his first acts as Washington’s governor, Bob Ferguson created a workgroup of environmentalists, tech leaders, and government officials to find common ground in the great AI data center ...
CSOonline

Claude AI vulnerability exposes enterprise data through code interpreter exploit

Security researcher demonstrates how attackers can hijack Anthropic’s file upload API to exfiltrate sensitive information, even with network restrictions enabled. A newly disclosed vulnerability in ...
Nextgov

Government AI hits a data roadblock but synthetic data could be the fix

When federal researchers tried to build an AI model to detect fraud in disability claims, they ran into a roadblock: they couldn’t use real claimant data. The workaround wasn’t a weaker model — it was ...