Are clearinghouses the answer to the AI hacking threat?
This summer, the White House rolled out the Gold Eagle Initiative, billed as an “unprecedented” effort to coordinate cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure across government and industry. It was easy to miss this news with all of...
Hands-on with Antigravity 2: No IDE, just agent chat
The original Antigravity was an IDE with native integration for Google’s generative AI models. With Antigravity 2, Google offers a refashioned version of the product that it describes as a “standalone desktop command center” for ...
Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech, but not enough to avoid a $1.2B fine
Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls were lacking. The bank was fined a whopping $1.2 billion for money laundering offences t...
Pop the champagne, Python 3.15 is here!
The best Python yet isn’t just faster than before. It’s also smarter at telling you what’s wrong, better at letting you profile applications, and loaded with new language features to give you a better programming experience. T...
The $690 billion cloud spending spree
Every quarter, I look at the capital expenditure numbers coming out of the major cloud providers, and every quarter, they manage to surprise me. This time, though, we’ve crossed into territory that’s genuinely hard to process. Th...
Cyberattack AIs must be trained only on air-gapped systems, hundreds of AI researchers say
Current security procedures for training AI models are inadequate, hundreds of AI researchers have warned governments and the AI community. They are calling for tougher rules and the establishment of a new international body over...
TypeSafe’s Jev ‘even more susceptible to attack’ than LLMs, says security vendor
Although the Jev model rolled out last month by TypeSafe claims to have significant advantages over traditional LLMs, a security report published Wednesday argued that its streamlined approach makes it more vulnerable to some kin...
ServiceNow makes it easier to build AI agents, gives them verifiable identities
ServiceNow is giving its AI Control Tower new features to make AI agents more governable — and a new name, Super Intelligence Control Tower (SICT), to please the US President. It is also updating EmployeeWorks to make building AI...
Google aims to make BigQuery spending on AI functions more predictable with token quotas
Google has made daily token quotas generally available for BigQuery’s generative AI functions to give enterprises a way to limit AI consumption by project and individual user. These quotas, which can be managed via the IAM and...
Building Fabric Apps with Microsoft’s Rayfin
Using vibe coding to scratch an itch has many of the same issues as using low-code and no-code development tools. That’s not surprising. Putting together something quickly to solve a specific problem lacks the level of discipline...