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🚀 SpaceX notches major wins during tenth Starship test
🤖 Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome
🗣️ Google Translate takes on Duolingo
🛡️ OpenAI adds new safeguards after teen suicide lawsuit
⚠️ Anthropic warns hackers are now weaponizing AI
🏃 Meta loses two AI researchers back to OpenAI
🎁 + 15 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🚀 SpaceX notches major wins during tenth Starship test LINK
For the first time, the Super Heavy booster tested a maneuver by shutting down landing engines and transitioning to backups before completing its targeted splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Starship upper stage reached space and successfully opened its Pez-style payload door, a critical test which allowed it to release eight Starlink mass-simular satellites as planned.
SpaceX re-lit a Raptor engine in space and guided the vehicle through reentry, gathering data from its thermal-protection system before the ship splashed down in the Indian Ocean.
🤖 Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome LINK
Anthropic launched Claude for Chrome, a browser extension in a limited research preview that can navigate websites, click buttons, and fill forms to automatically handle tasks like filtering properties.
The extension is vulnerable to a prompt injection attack, where a malicious email could instruct Claude to send your private financial emails to an attacker without your knowledge or consent.
To combat this, the company added site-level permissions and action confirmations, and claims it reduced the prompt injection attack success rate from 23.6 percent down to 11.2 percent.
🗣️ Google Translate takes on Duolingo LINK
Google Translate is launching a new language practice feature that creates customized listening and speaking exercises which adapt to your skill level for learning conversational skills and vocabulary.
A "Live translate" option is being added for real-time conversations, providing both audio translations and on-screen transcripts in more than 70 languages for two people speaking together.
The live feature's AI models can identify pauses and intonations for more natural-sounding speech and use speech recognition to isolate sounds in noisy places like an airport.
🛡️ OpenAI adds new safeguards after teen suicide lawsuit LINK
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT to better recognize signs of psychological distress during extended conversations, issuing explicit warnings about dangers like sleep deprivation if a user reports feeling "invincible."
For users indicating a crisis, the company is adding direct links to emergency services in the US and Europe, letting them access professional help outside the platform with a single click.
A planned parental controls feature will give guardians the ability to monitor their children’s ChatGPT conversations and review usage history to help spot potential problems and step in if needed.
⚠️ Anthropic warns hackers are now weaponizing AI LINK
In a new report, Anthropic details a method called "vibe-hacking," where a lone actor uses the Claude Code agent as both consultant and operator for a scaled data extortion campaign against multiple organizations.
AI now enables "no-code malware," allowing unskilled actors to sell Ransomware-as-a-Service with evasion techniques like RecycledGate, outsourcing all technical competence and development work to the model.
North Korean operatives are fraudulently securing tech jobs by simulating technical competence with Claude, relying on the AI for persona development, passing coding interviews, and maintaining employment through daily assistance.
🏃 Meta loses two AI researchers back to OpenAI LINK
Two prominent AI researchers, Avi Verma and Ethan Knight, left Meta's new Superintelligence Labs to go back to OpenAI after working at the company for less than one month.
Chaya Nayak, who led generative AI efforts, is also heading to OpenAI, while researcher Rishabh Agarwal separately announced his departure from the same superintelligence team after recently joining Meta.
These quick exits are a major setback for the new lab, which was created to outpace rivals and reports directly to Mark Zuckerberg while aggressively recruiting top AI talent.
Other news you might like
- Apple is holding its iPhone 17 event on September 9LINK
- Hundreds of Salesforce customers impacted by attack spree linked to third-party AI agentLINK
- DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblowerLINK
- Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authorsLINK
- US to publish economic data on blockchain, Commerce chief saysLINK
- Trump Says Meta to Spend $50 Billion on Louisiana Data CenterLINK
- China’s ‘little Nvidia’ sees 4,348% revenue surge amid AI stock frenzyLINK
- The first AI-powered ransomware has been discovered — "PromptLock" uses local AI to foil heuristic detection and evade API trackingLINK
- Elon Musk's lawyers try to stop OpenAI obtaining bid documents from Meta, filing showsLINK
- OpenAI's restructuring stalls as talks with Microsoft over API access and IP rights drag onLINK
- Google might lose its $26 billion search deals. That could fuel its AI growth, analysts sayLINK
- Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thingLINK
- Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AILINK
- German court rules Apple cannot call its smartwatch 'carbon neutral'LINK
- Nothing busted using professional photos as Phone 3 samplesLINK
Latest research and tools
Saved searches: a feature used to filter your results more quickly.LINK
Regolith: a regular expression library for TypeScript and JavaScript that prevents specific attacks designed to make services unresponsive.LINK
Audio-Visual Contact Classification for Tree Structures in Agriculture: this research uses sound and video to help a machine determine what part of a tree it is touching.LINK
The non-orientable spacetime of the eternal black hole: this paper proposes that the geometry inside an eternal black hole could reverse the left-right orientation of an object that travels through it.LINK
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