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‘He Gets Us’ campaign returns with another ad In the final moments of the broadcast, the evangelical groups behind the “He Gets Us” campaign poke at consumerism and greed to ask, “Is there more to life than more?” It’s the fourth straight year the group has advertised in the Super Bowl, and the controversial campaign…

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California AG to investigate xAI, Grok over sexualized AI images of women and children

The California Attorney General on Wednesday announced an investigation into non-consensual sexually explicit material produced using Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. The investigation into the Elon Musk-owned company comes amid a broader global backlash against deepfake images that spread on X. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office cited reports that users asked Grok…

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Darktrace highlights growing unease as AI agents operate with access to critical data and processes

Darktrace announced the findings of its State of AI Cybersecurity Report 2026examining how the rapid adoption of AI in business is changing the nature of cyber risk for global businesses. The findings highlight growing concern among cybersecurity professionals about the rise of agentic AI in their organizations, with more than three-quarters (76%) of security professionals…

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Making AI smarter without more training data | UCR News

A study by UC Riverside researchers offers a practical solution to one of artificial intelligence’s toughest challenges by enabling AI systems to reason more like humans, without requiring new training data beyond testing questions. In a preprint paper entitled “Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models”, assistant professor Yinglun Zhu and students introduce a…

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Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound.

Today we are launching Voxtral Transcribe 2, two next-generation speech-to-text models delivering industry-leading transcription quality, diarization, and ultra-low latency. The family includes Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications. Voxtral Realtime is open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. We’re also launching an audio playground in Mistral Studio to test…

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Roughly half of employees are using unsanctioned AI tools, and enterprise leaders are major culprits

In addition, employees must be made aware of the risks. Many, including CISOs, do not truly understand the scale of the problem and its broader implications. “Education is essential and doesn’t require a lot of work,” Williams said. Implementing a policy and framework, however, is, and businesses must first decide what risks they are willing…

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AI in healthcare: Better diagnosis and care

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in medicine: it is actively reshaping the way healthcare systems detect disease, care for patients and make clinical decisions. Across the world, hospitals, clinics, and research institutions are integrating AI-based tools into clinical workflows with one primary goal: improving patient outcomes while making care more equitable,…

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