Chris YoungLocal Democracy Reporting Service Getty Images The customer had a nut allergy and was served a dessert with a chocolate hazelnut topping instead of Belgian chocolate A business is under investigation by trading standards officers after a woman was hospitalised when the firm used a chocolate hazelnut dessert topping instead of chocolate. West Yorkshire…
Thinking Machines cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz are leaving the fledgling AI lab and rejoining OpenAI, the ChatGPT-maker announced on Thursday. OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, shared the news in a memo to staff Thursday afternoon. The news was first reported on X by technology reporter Kylie Robison, who wrote that Zoph was…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, January 15th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9768, (Thu, Jan 15th) Source link
With the advancement in tools and services that make generative AI models accessible, businesses can now access the same foundation models (FMs) as their competitors. True differentiation comes from building AI that is highly customized for your business—something your competitors can’t effortlessly replicate. Although today’s FMs are genuinely intelligent with vast knowledge and reasoning capabilities,…
AutoScout24 is Europe’s leading automotive marketplace platform that connects buyers and sellers of new and used cars, motorcycles, and commercial vehicles across several European countries. Their long-term vision is to build a Bot Factory, a centralized framework for creating and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can perform tasks and make decisions within workflows, to…
Vlad Ionescu and Ariel Herbert-Voss, cofounders of the cybersecurity startup RunSybil, were momentarily confused when their AI tool, Sybil, alerted them to a weakness in a customer’s systems last November. Sybil uses a mix of different AI models—as well as a few proprietary technical tricks—to scan computer systems for issues that hackers might exploit, like…
The Trump Administration has taken action to share Medicaid data provided by states to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for immigration enforcement purposes. This action represents a reversal in prior policy that asserted CMS would not share such information…
Some Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace enrollees are choosing between plans that charge higher premium payments and plans with higher deductibles. Many enrollees are considering these tradeoffs following the expiration of the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits at the end of 2025, according to a new Health System Tracker analysis. While switching from a silver plan…
Introduction In recent weeks, Lumma Stealer infections have followed a specific pattern in follow-up activity. This pattern adds scheduled tasks for the same action, which increases traffic to the same C2 domain. This diary documents an example from one of these infections on January 14, 2026. Details After Lumma Stealer performs its data exfiltration, the…
Today, Kaggle is launching Community Benchmarks, which lets the global AI community design, run and share their own custom benchmarks for evaluating AI models. This is the next step after we launched Kaggle Benchmarks last year, to provide trustworthy and transparent access to evaluations from top-tier research groups like Meta’s MultiLoKo and Google’s FACTS suite….
