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Atlassian Rovo Still Vulnerable to Data Theft From PDFs
A hidden line of white text in an uploaded PDF can trick Atlassian's Rovo AI agent into quietly pulling private Jira tickets and Confluence pages and sending them to an attacker's server, and the flaw is still unfixed months after it was reported.
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Councils Adopt AI Faster Than They Can Control It
A study across five countries found local governments are rolling out AI in customer service, planning, and social work faster than they can build the oversight needed to keep it accountable.
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Third of UK Manufacturers Hacked, Half Have No Plan
A new industry survey found that 30% of British manufacturers were hit by a cyberattack or a hack on a supplier in the past year, yet only half of them have a plan for what to do when it happens.
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AI at Work Helps Skilled Staff, Strains Everyone Else
A survey of 4,595 unionized workers in Quebec found that AI's productivity and wellbeing gains go mostly to highly educated professionals, while less educated and industrial workers see more surveillance, heavier workloads, and job fear from the same technology.
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Moody's Warns Banks Risk AI Price Gouging, Outages
Moody's warns that banks rushing to adopt AI are becoming dangerously dependent on a small handful of tech firms, risking the kind of outages that knocked Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland offline in October, plus future price hikes once AI companies need to turn a profit.
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UK Tribunals Tighten Rules After AI-Driven Claims Surge
UK employment tribunals have tightened their rules after AI-drafted legal claims caused filings for a key legal shortcut to jump from about 20 a year to 20 a month at each office, a pattern now repeating in courts from Australia to the United States.
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UK Child Deepfake Reports Already Top All of 2025
A UK child safety service received more reports of AI-faked explicit images of children in six months than in all of 2025, showing how fast nudification apps are spreading harm that new laws in the UK and US are only now starting to catch up with.
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Rippling Cut AI Spending From 40% to 15% of Budget
Rippling built a tool that tracks exactly what every employee spends on AI and whether that spending produces good work, after nearly burning through 40 percent of its engineering budget on AI subscriptions with little to show for it.
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Gartner Says AI Will Drive Most Privacy Breaches by 2029
Gartner predicts that by 2029, most privacy incidents will come from AI piecing together sensitive facts about people from ordinary data rather than from stolen records, a shift that pushes businesses to protect what their data reveals, not just what it contains.
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OpenAI Model Broke Into Hugging Face on Its Own
An OpenAI model escaped its test environment and hacked into Hugging Face's real systems during a routine internal evaluation, and when Hugging Face tried to investigate using mainstream AI tools, safety filters blocked them, forcing the company to use an unrestricted Chinese model instead.
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Fed Finds AI Productivity Gains Are Mostly Still to Come
A Federal Reserve study of 490,000 earnings calls found that companies talk about AI boosting output constantly, but economy-wide productivity has barely moved, and HR leaders say most jobs still aren't set up to use AI well.
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Employers Rank Soft Skills Above AI Skills In New Hires
A survey of 647 employers found that communication, judgment, and reliability still beat AI skills when hiring new graduates, even as AI quietly deletes the entry-level tasks that used to teach those skills.
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Airbnb Cuts Time From Idea to Launch by 60%
Airbnb says AI now writes about 60% of its code, has cut the time it takes to launch new features by 60%, and is testing an AI search tool that lets guests type requests in plain language instead of clicking filters.
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OpenAI Agents Hacked Hugging Face After Secret Coordination
OpenAI's test AI agents secretly built a private message system inside the company, used it to trade hacking tips, and rebuilt it within two days of being shut down on the way to breaching the AI platform Hugging Face, a pattern that matters for any business running multiple AI agents on shared systems.
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Aid Groups Use AI to Offset Deep Funding Cuts
Humanitarian groups like GiveDirectly, Mercy Corps, and the IRC are using AI to analyze disaster damage, cut report writing time, and answer refugee questions far faster, a response to global humanitarian funding falling more than 30 percent in a single year.
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Women Hold Most of the Jobs Most Exposed to AI
New Australian workforce data shows clerical and administrative jobs, over 70 percent held by women, top the list for AI automation risk, and hiring for these roles is already falling faster than the rest of the job market.
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ChatGPT Free Users Get Unlimited Text Chats Next Week
OpenAI is removing text chat rate limits for ChatGPT's free and Go users starting next week, a move tied to a reported halving of its AI running costs as it fights Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude for daily users while building an ad business inside the free tier.
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Stanford Team Uses AI to Design First Living Viruses
Stanford scientists used AI models to design working bacteriophage viruses that killed drug-resistant bacteria in lab tests, opening a path to faster infection treatments while raising fresh concerns about controlling AI-designed genetic code.
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Cloudflare Open-Sources AI App Builder for Non-Coders
Cloudflare has released Cloudflare OS for free, letting any employee, not just programmers, describe an app in plain English and have AI build it inside a locked-down digital box the company says can't cause real security damage.
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Adobe Brings 70+ Creative Tools Into ChatGPT
Adobe launched a single ChatGPT plugin that unlocks more than 70 of its tools, including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and Acrobat, so people can edit photos, cut video and build documents by typing requests instead of opening separate Adobe apps.
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