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Misconfigured AI could shut down a G20 nation, says Gartner : Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns

Gartner: AI bugs in physical systems could shut down critical services in a G20 economy as soon as 2028, raising outage, repair and supply-chain disruption risks and prompting calls for stronger controls and human intervention.

Frank Schweitzer, how can we prevent malicious AI swarms from destroying our democracies? Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used for mass disinformation and manipulation. 22 researchers from different disciplines warned against this in an article recently published in the journ...

#AI is increasingly being used for mass #Disinformation and manipulation. 22 researchers from different disciplines warned against this in an article recently published in the journal Science. The authors include Frank Schweitzer, Professor Emeritus of Systems Design at ETH Zurich.

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Encrypted qubits can be cloned and stored in multiple locations – Physics World “Elegant” result has implications for a quantum internet

Surprising result has implications for quantum multicloud storage and information loss from black holes. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/Zcvr50Y1LOH

UN warnen vor globalem "Wasserbankrott" Viele Wasserreserven sind erschöpft und für den Menschen unwiederbringlich verloren, warnt ein UN-Bericht.

UN warnen vor globalem "Wasserbankrott" #Wasser #Trockenheit

A leading use for quantum computers might not need them after all Understanding a molecule that plays a key role in nitrogen fixing – a chemical process that enables life on Earth – has long been thought of as problem for quantum computers, but now a classical compu...

A New Scientist article suggests that a major touted application for quantum computers—solving certain optimization problems—might be handled efficiently by clever classical algorithms instead, reshaping expectations for near-term quantum advantage.

#Quantum #QuantumComputing #technology #Science

The CEO’s Guide to Growth in 2026 As CEOs emerge from a year of turbulence, this guide shows how to reignite growth in 2026 by pairing bold ambition with disciplined execution, AI at scale, and resilience that turns disruption into ad...

Wichtiger Satz zur neuen BCG-Studie „The CEO’s Guide to Growth in 2026“

„In a volatile world, #resilience doesn’t just protect organizations against shocks. It positions them to carve a competitive advantage from disruption.“

#Klimakrise #Davos

Insiders Say DeepSeek V4 Will Beat Claude and ChatGPT at Coding, Launch Within Weeks - Decrypt DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model could outperform Claude and ChatGPT in coding tasks, according to insiders—with its purported release nearing.

DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model, reportedly using founder Liang Wenfeng's Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections, is set to launch around Feb. 17 and is claimed by insiders to outperform Claude and ChatGPT on long-context coding tasks, though no public benchmarks exist.

Introducing Mistral 3 | Mistral AI A family of frontier open-source multimodal models

Furthermore, for each model size, they released the base, instruct, and reasoning variants to the community, each with image understanding capabilities, all under the Apache 2.0 license.

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ArtificialAnalysis.ai puts Kimi K2 nearly tied with GPT-5, < 1/3 the cost.

#Schweiz: «Interessierte können mit #openDesk loslegen und testen.»

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OpenAI's New AI Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks Experts confirmed almost immediately that OpenAI's latest AI browser, dubbed Atlas, is "definitely vulnerable to prompt injection."

"Trust no AI."

BBC study finds AI chatbots still get news wrong 45% of the time Analysis from the BBC and other European news outlets has found that around 45 percent of AI chatbot responses based on news articles contain errors. The findings have potentially severe implications...

BBC study finds AI chatbots still get news wrong 45% of the time #Technology #Cybersecurity Other

First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Discord support breach may have exposed photo IDs for millions of users Late last week, Discord reported on a breach that happened recently with its third-party customer support partner, Zendesk. But new information indicates the stolen data could be worse than originally thought, including millions of government photo IDs. more…

Discord support breach may have exposed photo IDs for millions of users

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

Doesn’t sound ideal.

"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.

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Former OpenAI Employee Horrified by How ChatGPT Is Driving Users Into Psychosis The former OpenAI safety researcher had grim findings about how the company is handling these delusional spirals.

"Believe me when I say: the things that ChatGPT has been telling users are probably worse than you think."

The 7 Cyber Security Trends Of 2026 That Everyone Must Be Ready For From ransomware-as-a-service tools to state-sponsored cyber warfare, businesses face unprecedented threats that require immediate preparation and quantum-safe security.

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How Cloudflare uses the world’s greatest collection of performance data to make the world’s fastest global network even faster Cloudflare is using its vast traffic to send responses faster than ever before, by learning the characteristics of each individual network and tuning our congestion control system.

How Cloudflare uses the world’s greatest collection of performance data to make the world’s fastest global network even faster

Cloudflare is using its vast traffic to send responses faster than ever before, by learning the characteristics of each individual network and tuning our conges…

#ai #news

How Google’s dev tools manager makes AI coding work | TechCrunch Google PM Ryan Salva is responsible for tools like Gemini CLI, giving him a front-row seat to the ways AI tools are changing software development.

Google PM Ryan Salva is responsible for tools like Gemini CLI, giving him a front-row seat to the ways AI tools are changing software development.

Switzerland launches its own open-source AI model Switzerland has just released Apertus, its open-source national Large Language Model (LLM) that it hopes would be an alternative to models offered by companies like OpenAI.

Switzerland has launched Apertus, a national open-source LLM developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS. Built with transparency and compliance with European data laws, Apertus is positioned as a public alternative to commercial AI models.

#AI #OpenSource #LLM #Switzerland #Apertus

How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining M2N2 is a model merging technique that creates powerful multi-skilled agents without the high cost and data needs of retraining.

How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining

M2N2 is a model merging technique that creates powerful multi-skilled agents without the high cost and data needs of retraining.

#ai #news

There are solid use cases for AI. But they’re not the flashy gen AI apps that get investors excited.

Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's ‘Nearly Unusable’ for Enterprise Independent red teams have jailbroken GPT-5 within 24 hours of release, exposing severe vulnerabilities in context handling and guardrail enforcement, warning model is not enterprise-ready.

Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ for Enterprise

Mistral Releases Devstral, an Open-Source LLM for Software Engineering Agents Mistral AI announced the release of Devstral, a new open-source large language model designed to improve the automation of software engineering workflows, particularly in complex coding environments that require reasoning across multiple files and components. By Daniel Dominguez

Mistral Releases Devstral, an Open-Source LLM for Software Engineering Agents

Mistral AI announced the release of Devstral, a new open-source large language model designed to improve the automation of software engineering workflows, particularly in complex coding environments th…

#ai #llm #mistral

Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations Defenses are weaker, and victims are more likely to pay, SANS warns Criminals who attempt to damage critical infrastructure are increasingly targeting the systems that sit between IT and operational tech.…

Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations

How AI Is Impacting The Skills Of Gen Zers In The Workplace AI, which can shore up the workplace skills of Gen Z employees, is also posing some challenges for these members of the workforce.

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When to Use GenAI Versus Predictive AI | Rama Ramakrishnan Which AI tool is the best option for solving your problem? Follow this pragmatic advice to figure it out.

When to Use GenAI Versus Predictive AI?

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In a total of 16 disciplines, the university ranks among the 10 best in the world. These are the latest results of the QS World #University #Rankings according to subject.

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