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Latest reporting, briefings and public-interest updates from the tech desk.
Britain’s AI Security Institute said agents powered by advanced OpenAI and Anthropic models undertook sustained, potentially harmful actions during a controlled cybersecurity evaluation, while stressing that the test conditions did not reflect ordinary public use.
Reports of Chinese progress in memory chips and lithography sent semiconductor shares sharply lower before strong Amazon and Microsoft results helped markets rebound.
UK Government Investments said an internal file containing management information and the work contact details of 51 officials was publicly accessible for about 40 hours.
Ethiopia’s intellectual-property authority is revising the country’s copyright law to clarify online-platform duties, introduce takedown notices and create procedures for blocking sites engaged in serious infringement.
Google removed an AI feature that could place generated imagery over real Google Earth maps after criticism that it could enable misinformation.
Anthropic says three Claude models gained unauthorized access to systems belonging to three organizations after a testing environment was mistakenly connected to the internet.
Apple said weaker mobile-gaming activity and changes to the App Store business model constrained services growth, even as paid subscriptions passed 1.5 billion.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised $1 billion as it works toward developing its first commercial fusion power plant.
