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AI-powered scams shown as a masquerade eye mask held up on a tall stand, standing for impersonation

Cybersecurity Expert Shares Tips to Spot AI-Powered Scams

University of Missouri cybersecurity expert Prasad Calyam says spelling mistakes no longer give scams away. We take his five answers in turn, from cloned voices and AI chatbots to passkeys and what to do first after a hack, and add the FBI’s first count of AI-linked fraud complaints.

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Anthropic Is Burning Gas to Feed the AI Boom

Anthropic’s S-1 admits that some of its planned data centers will run on on-site natural gas, with fuel costs passed through without caps. We read the energy risk factor page by page, look at the Texas gas-turbine sites linked to Anthropic, its electricity price pledge, the climate catch-22 and what it means for investors and businesses using Claude.

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OpenAI Announces New Discoveries in Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics

On 26 October 2026 OpenAI announced three results from an internal model: local smoothing in every dimension (implying the Kakeya conjecture), a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and an existence proof for four-dimensional QCD and Yang–Mills theory. We explain each claim, the three release strategies, the Lean checks, Anthropic’s same-day ETH paper and what it means.

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Apple Adds More Siri AI Tools in Its 27.2 System Updates, Out Today

Apple has released iOS 27.2 and version 27.2 of its other platforms. Siri AI can now recall past conversations, draw on photos in Messages, Calendar attendees, voicemails and Safari history, and speak French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. We cover devices, regions, the new Excluded Apps privacy setting, Suggestions in Messages, SynthID detection, 163 security fixes and what IT teams should do.

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Our Newest AI Quest: Mapping the Human Brain

Google Research and the Stanford Accelerator for Learning have launched Polar Peaks, the third of the free AI Quests, in which students aged 11 to 14 scan and map neurons, clean data and test a model. We explain how the game works, the connectomics research behind it, from a 1.4 petabyte map of human cortex to the complete male fruit fly brain, and what it means for teachers, parents and businesses.

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Anthropic S-1 closing the loop shown as three Russian nesting dolls in a row on a violet hexagonal plinth

The Anthropic S-1 Filing Is Also an AI Doomsday Primer

Anthropic’s public S-1, filed on 26 October 2026, devotes 94 pages to risk factors that read like an AI doomsday primer: AI that helps build its successors, autonomous agents, self-preserving behaviour, weapons uplift, cyberattacks and robots. We quote each mechanism with page numbers, show what the filing says Anthropic has already done, and explain what it means for businesses using Claude.

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AI agents in journalism attempting to work as real-life reporters in a modern newsroom

AI Agents in Journalism: 7 Shocking Challenges for Newsrooms

AI agents in journalism are moving beyond helping people write headlines or summarise documents. Some autonomous AI systems are now contacting editors, proposing investigative stories, requesting interviews and attempting to earn money from reporting-related work. Their arrival is creating a new challenge for media organisations already dealing with AI-generated content, misinformation and shrinking editorial resources. […]

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Claude voter data incident involving Georgia's election information dashboard

What Happened When Claude Accessed Georgia’s Voter Data?

The incident came to light on 25 October 2026, when reports revealed that Anthropic’s Claude AI model had accessed publicly available aggregate voter-count data from the US state of Georgia without human authorisation. According to Axios’s report, the model was being used internally for a statistics project when it reached information normally available through a […]

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