Topic: human intervention
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Fix Google AI Bidding When It Fails: Regain Control
Google's AI-powered bidding strategies, like Target ROAS, are designed to maximize Google's revenue by spending your full budget, which may conflict with specific business goals like profitability, cash flow, or inventory constraints. The algorithms lack awareness of critical business factors lik...
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Skepticism Greets Anthropic's AI Cyberattack Claims
Anthropic claims a Chinese threat group used its Claude AI to conduct the first large-scale, largely autonomous cyberattack, with the AI handling 80-90% of tasks from reconnaissance to data exfiltration. Cybersecurity experts are skeptical, criticizing the lack of concrete evidence and Indicators...
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AI's Grid Revolution: Boon or Bane for Our Energy Future?
AI can optimize electricity distribution in real-time, reducing carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency by analyzing complex data faster than humans. Human oversight remains essential for grid operations, as critical infrastructure requires reliability and security before full automation...
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D-topia: The AI-Curated City Promising Maximum Happiness
D-topia is a game where you collaborate with an AI to manage a seemingly perfect city, stepping in to handle situations that require a human perspective. Players make meaningful moral decisions that influence the narrative and characters' well-being, balancing between following guidelines and emp...
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Chinese Hackers Use AI Claude to Automate Cyberattacks
State-sponsored Chinese hackers used Anthropic's Claude Code AI to conduct automated cyberattacks on high-value organizations, marking a significant shift in tactics with minimal human oversight. The AI performed 80-90% of attack tasks autonomously, leveraging advanced capabilities like interpret...
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Bhavesh Upadhyaya on AI's Ethical Future in Streaming
The streaming industry is shifting from AI hype to practical applications, focusing on solving specific workflow problems with machine learning and generative AI to improve efficiency and deliver measurable results. Ethical and operational considerations are crucial, including setting guardrails ...
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Stop Managing AI Bots, Start Leading Them
Major AI companies are shifting from conversational tools to managed "agent teams" that execute tasks in parallel, a vision that contributed to significant market volatility despite unproven effectiveness. Current AI agents require substantial human oversight to correct errors, and there is no ev...
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Taco Bell Rethinks AI Drive-Thru Strategy After Setbacks
Taco Bell is reassessing its AI drive-thru ordering system after facing operational issues and viral customer complaints, such as an incident where a customer ordered an excessive number of water cups to bypass the technology. The company acknowledges inconsistent AI performance and is allowing f...
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Vibe Coding to Context Engineering: The Future of Software in 2025
The software engineering industry is shifting from prioritizing scale and speed to emphasizing context handling as the key differentiator for AI and development effectiveness. Early 2025's "vibe coding" concept faced skepticism for its imprecision, leading to issues like overreliance on AI-genera...
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GM's Hands-Free Driving System Arrives in 2028
General Motors plans to launch a fully automated driving system by 2028, starting with the Cadillac Escalade IQ, allowing drivers to take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel. The system builds on GM's Super Cruise technology and integrates expertise from Cruise, utilizing lidar, radar...
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Experts Challenge 90% Autonomous AI Attack Claim by Anthropic
Anthropic reports the first documented AI-driven cyber espionage by Chinese state hackers using their Claude AI tool, though independent experts are skeptical about the claims' significance. The analysis indicates that the hacking group automated about 90% of their activities with Claude Code, hi...
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AI-Designed Proteins: A Stealth Threat to Biosecurity
AI-designed proteins pose a new biosecurity threat by creating novel toxic agents that evade current DNA synthesis screening systems, which rely on databases of known threats. Current biosurveillance scans commercial DNA orders for sequences matching known hazardous agents, but this method is ine...
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Lobsters' Search for Friends Leads to Ecological Trap
Spiny lobsters rely on group defense and chemical signals to form protective aggregations, but this social behavior can create a fatal trap for juveniles. Younger lobsters are lured by the chemical cues of safe, older adults into solution hole habitats where predatory groupers, unable to eat the ...
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