Intelligenza Artificiale Generale AGI: definito il primo standard globale per misurarla
Il 21 ottobre 2025, un gruppo internazionale di ricercatori provenienti da 29 istituzioni di prestigio – tra cui Stanford University, MIT e Università della California, Berkeley – ha completato uno studio che segna una tappa fondamentale nello sviluppo dell’intelligenza artificiale: la definizione del primo quadro quantitativo per valutare l’Intelligenza Artificiale Generale (AGI).
Basato sulla teoria psicologica Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC), il modello proposto suddivide l’intelligenza generale in dieci domini cognitivi distinti, ognuno con un peso del 10%, per un totale di 100 punti che rappresentano il livello cognitivo umano.
Sulla base di questa scala, GPT-4 ha raggiunto un punteggio del 27%, mentre GPT-5 ha ottenuto il 58%, evidenziando una distribuzione irregolare delle abilità, con risultati eccellenti in linguaggio e conoscenza, ma punteggi nulli nella memoria a lungo termine.
Un approccio scientifico per misurare la “vera intelligenza”
Secondo i ricercatori, stabilire se un’IA possa essere considerata “intelligente” come un essere umano richiede una valutazione ampia e multidimensionale. Come in un check-up medico completo che misura la salute di diversi organi, l’AGI viene analizzata su vari fronti cognitivi – dal ragionamento al linguaggio, dalla memoria alla percezione sensoriale.
Il nuovo quadro si fonda sulla teoria CHC, utilizzata da decenni in psicologia per misurare le capacità cognitive umane. Questo approccio consente di scomporre l’intelligenza in componenti analitiche, come conoscenza, ragionamento, elaborazione visiva e memoria.
L’obiettivo del team è stato trasformare questi principi in un sistema di misurazione oggettivo applicabile anche ai modelli di intelligenza artificiale.
Il “test cognitivo” dell’IA
I test hanno valutato GPT-4 e GPT-5 su dieci aree: conoscenze generali, comprensione e produzione di testo, matematica, ragionamento immediato, memoria di lavoro, memoria a lungo termine, recupero mnemonico, elaborazione visiva, elaborazione uditiva e velocità di reazione.
GPT-5 ha mostrato miglioramenti significativi rispetto al predecessore, raggiungendo punteggi quasi perfetti in linguaggio, conoscenza e matematica. Tuttavia, entrambe le versioni hanno fallito nei test di memoria a lungo termine e nella gestione coerente delle informazioni nel tempo.
Secondo gli studiosi, ciò dimostra che i sistemi di IA attuali compensano le proprie lacune attraverso strategie di “distorsione delle capacità”, sfruttando enormi quantità di dati o strumenti esterni per mascherare limiti strutturali.
La “mente a dente di sega” delle IA moderne
Il rapporto descrive la distribuzione dei risultati come “a dente di sega”: eccellenze in alcune aree e carenze gravi in altre. Ad esempio, GPT-5 si comporta come uno studente brillante in materie teoriche, ma incapace di ricordare le lezioni apprese. Questa frammentazione cognitiva evidenzia che, pur mostrando abilità avanzate, le IA non possiedono ancora una comprensione continua e autonoma del mondo.
Gli autori dello studio paragonano l’IA a un motore sofisticato ma privo di alcuni componenti essenziali. Anche con un sistema linguistico e matematico di altissimo livello, l’assenza di una memoria stabile e di un vero meccanismo di apprendimento limita la capacità complessiva. Per l’intelligenza artificiale, questo si traduce in prestazioni elevate in compiti specifici, ma scarsa adattabilità e apprendimento autonomo nel lungo periodo.
Implicazioni per il futuro dell’IA
Oltre a fornire una base scientifica per la valutazione dell’intelligenza artificiale, lo studio contribuisce a ridefinire le aspettative sullo sviluppo dell’AGI. Dimostra che la semplice crescita delle dimensioni dei modelli o l’aumento dei dati non bastano a raggiungere la cognizione umana: servono nuove architetture in grado di integrare memoria, ragionamento e apprendimento esperienziale.
Gli studiosi sottolineano anche l’importanza di affrontare le cosiddette “allucinazioni” dell’IA – errori di fabbricazione di informazioni – che rimangono un punto critico in tutti i modelli testati. La consapevolezza di questi limiti può guidare un uso più consapevole della tecnologia, evitando sia entusiasmi eccessivi che timori infondati.
In definitiva, il principale contributo di questa ricerca è l’introduzione di un vero e proprio “metro cognitivo” per misurare l’intelligenza artificiale in modo oggettivo e comparabile. Solo conoscendo i punti di forza e di debolezza attuali sarà possibile orientare in modo efficace la prossima generazione di sistemi intelligenti.
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Consiglio non richiesto agli avversari della Meloni: evitare di definirla come cortigiana, cheerleader e in altri modi irrispettosi. Infatti, queste espressioni sono sontuose vie di fuga per la Premier, che le
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Forse una coincidenza, ma il 16 ottobre è lo stesso giorno dell’attentato mortale a Dafne Caruana Galizia, a Malta. Nello stesso giorno di ottobre l’attentato a Sigfrido Ranucci. Pochi hanno rilevato la coincidenza. Se tale è.
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Announcing the 2025 Hackaday Superconference Communicator Badge
It’s the moment you hard-core hardware nerds have been waiting for: the reveal of the 2025 Hackaday Supercon Communicator Badge. And this year, we’ve outdone ourselves, but that’s thanks to help from stellar collaboration with folks from the community, and help from sponsors. This badge is bigger than the sum of its parts, and we’ve planned for it to be useful for you to hack on in the afterlife. Indeed, as always, you are going to be the final collaborator, so we can’t wait to see what you’ll do with it.
You look up a topic, say Retro Computing or SAO trading, punch in the channel number on the numpad, and your badge starts listening to everything going on around that topic. But they also listen to everything else, and repeat anything they hear on to their neighbors. Like IRC, but LoRa.
But let’s talk hardware. The first thing that hits you is the custom keyboard, a hat-tip to portable computing devices of yore, but actually infinitely more capable and even nicer under the thumbs. Behind the keyboard is a custom dome-switch sticker sheet and a TC8418 I2C keyboard matrix multiplexer chip, which does away with all of the diodes and decoding and makes a keyboard design easy.
In the driver’s seat is an ESP32-S3, courtesy of Espressif, no less. We asked, and they made it rain: it’s the good one with 8 MB of PSRAM and 16 MB of flash – plenty of room for about anything, and just enough pins to run the show. We needed the form-factor of the LCD screen for the aesthetics, and we’ll just say there’s not much choice in this shape; we had to go for an LCD with a strange newish driver chip, but we made it work with the help of sketchy Arduino init scripts found around the interwebs.
Did we mention LoRa? A Communicator Badge is no good without a means of communication. Seeed makes these nice little SX1262 LoRa modules, and they were our first choice not only because they’re cute, but also because they come with a bring-your-own antenna option, and they had enough of them in stock. (This is not to be underestimated these days!) SMA adapter, LiPo and charging circuitry, and badge is your uncle! Super thanks go out to DigiKey for sponsoring us all manner of needed components.
Radio Frequency Madness
Here is where we run into our first problem, and it’s the exact opposite of the problem that mesh networks are designed to solve. Those little LoRa radios transmit easily 1 km to 2 km in open space, maybe half that in an urban neighborhood. And we’re putting 500 hundred of them in the alley, with often just a couple meters between badges.
Still, we’ve got some tricks up our sleeve, we’ve got a lot of bandwidth at our discretion, and we’ve got a smart bunch of hackers. We can make this work, and we will have some odd corners of radio spectrum for you to play around with too. Get together with a couple friends and have fun with RF.
We’ll also be broadcasting Supercon-relevant news out to the badges from time to time. Things like which talks are coming up, when and where the food has arrived, and so on.
The Keyboard
Other badges have come out using his stock keyboard, but only Hackaday and Supplyframe’s Design Lab was foolish enough to do something totally custom. Actually, it was super easy with [Arturo] leading the keyboard project, because he knows all about the details of preparing the designs for the keyboard dome sheets, and worked with the Design Lab team and Supplyframe’s designer [Bogdan Rosu] to get the custom silicone covers looking pretty. Thanks [Arturo]!
The Software?
The software is still under wraps. The folks at Design Lab are turning out badges as fast as they can, even as we write this, and that means that we’re still working on the software. The last minute is the sweetest minute. Again, though, we’re not alone.
The brains behind the software effort is [Spaceben], and I have to say I haven’t seen such clean Python code in my life. Everything is possible when you have good folks on your team.
We’re using the LVGL graphics framework for Micropython, which makes the GUI design a lot snazzier than it would otherwise be. It was also easy enough to port our funny display driver to lvgl_micropython, and we’re working on the keyboard too. We’ll see what works on Supercon Day 1!
Your Turn
And that brings us to you! Mesh-network-IRC is fun during the conference, but after the fact, these badges are going to be too good to just leave on the shelf. Porting Meshtastic to the badge would be a fantastic project. The keyboard, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity just beg for some kind of handheld remote-control device design. The panel for a home automation setup? Or heck, go super simple and just wire the I2C keyboard out to your next project that needs one. We’d bet a Jolly Wrencher sticker that the badge could be quickly transformed into an ELRS radio control unit.
We love the badge scene, and like many of you out there, we find it’s a pity when the badges just sit in the closet. So we tried to plan for the afterlife here by making the badge hardware as useful as we could, and by making the software side as accessible as possible. Those of you who hack on the badge during Supercon, you’ll be blazing the trails for the rest of us afterwards.
We hope you find it fun to chat with others at Supercon, a fun platform to work on, and something useful after the fact. Managing an ad-hoc chaos mesh network isn’t going to be easy, but the real goal is the friends you meet along the way. See you all at Supercon!
2,5 miliardi di dollari: il costo dell’attacco informatico a Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover continua ad affrontare le conseguenze dell’attacco informatico che ha paralizzato la produzione, interrotto la rete di concessionari e messo a repentaglio le catene di approvvigionamento.
Nei maggiori impianti del Regno Unito, la fabbricazione di veicoli è stata interrotta per un periodo di quasi cinque settimane. Una riduzione di produzione di quasi 5.000 veicoli a settimana è stata registrata nel Regno Unito durante la sospensione, corrispondente a una perdita stimata settimanale di 108 milioni di sterline per le operazioni di JLR nel Regno Unito, includendo sia i costi fissi sia le perdite di profitto.
Il Cyber Monitoring Centre stima stima che l’evento abbia causato un impatto finanziario nel Regno Unito di 1,9 miliardi di sterline e abbia interessato oltre 5.000 organizzazioni del Regno Unito . L’intervallo di perdita modellato è compreso tra 1,6 e 2,1 miliardi di sterline, ma potrebbe essere superiore in caso di impatto significativo sulla tecnologia operativa o di ritardi imprevisti nel riportare la produzione ai livelli precedenti l’evento. Questa stima riflette la sostanziale interruzione della produzione di JLR, della sua catena di fornitura multilivello e delle organizzazioni a valle, comprese le concessionarie. La stima è sensibile alle ipotesi chiave, tra cui la data in cui JLR sarà in grado di ripristinare completamente la produzione e il profilo della ripresa; questa e altre ipotesi e limitazioni sono discusse più avanti in questo documento.
La valutazione dell’impatto finanziario si basa su un ritorno alla piena produzione all’inizio di gennaio 2026. A seguito delle chiusure dovute al COVID, JLR ha impiegato diverse settimane per tornare alla piena produzione. Un ritorno all’inizio di gennaio si basa sul contributo di esperti secondo cui JLR probabilmente incontrerà ulteriori complessità nel suo ritorno alla piena operatività, a causa delle continue sfide all’interno dell’infrastruttura IT o dei vincoli della catena di approvvigionamento.
Si prevede che il ritorno alla piena produzione sarà impegnativo, con la possibilità che si presentino problemi imprevisti che dovranno essere risolti. E’ stata ipotizzata una ripresa lineare dall’8 ottobre, quando è stato annunciato il ritorno alla produzione limitata, fino all’inizio di gennaio 2026.
Il Cyber Monitoring Centre ha riportato che per ragioni attualmente poco chiare, sono emersi pubblicamente meno dettagli tecnici su questo incidente rispetto al solito in casi simili.
La valutazione dell’impatto finanziario dell’incidente dipende fortemente dai dettagli tecnici, soprattutto per quanto riguarda l’influenza sulla tecnologia operativa (OT) di JLR, un aspetto fondamentale in questo contesto.
La portata dell’impatto dipenderà dall’estensione degli exploit dannosi realizzati, dai sistemi coinvolti e dalle possibili ulteriori conseguenze che potrebbero scaturire da un’interruzione non controllata.
Effettuare un blocco della produzione significa che è esistito un rischio significativo che gli aggressori potessero minare o avrebbero potuto minare le strutture operative essenziali, aumentando così il rischio di un’interazione dannosa tra i sistemi operativi e quelli informatici. Tuttavia, la ripresa della produzione all’inizio di ottobre suggerisce che l’entità di questo rischio sia probabilmente contenuta.
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Finalmente cestini della munnezza abbinati alle insegne de Roma!
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Affitto villetta sul Trasimeno, chi a vuole come affitto lungo?
CICI, MAI SENTITO NOMINARE?
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ByteDance, l’azienda madre di TikTok, ha creato quello che è attualmente il chatbot, il modello di intelligenza artificiale, più popolare in Cina: “Doubao”. Presentato nel 2023, con un successo quasi istantaneo è assurto ai vertici del mercato dell'intelligenza artificiale generativa del Paese di Mezzo, raggiungendo oltre 157 milioni di utenti attivi al
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The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe.#TheAbstract
Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial
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Scientists have tested out enteral ventilation—a possible method of administering oxygen with a liquid delivered through the rectum that is then absorbed into the intestines—in humans for the first time. The trial demonstrated that this method of ventilation is safe and “paves the way for future studies to see if this technique can help patients with respiratory failure,” according to a study published on Monday in the journal Med.
“Enteral ventilation is not meant to replace mechanical ventilators or ECMO, but rather to serve as a complementary oxygenation route,” said Takanori Takebe, an expert in organoid medicine with appointments at both Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Osaka, in an email to 404 Media. The technique proves a backdoor “to provide partial oxygen support while allowing the lungs to rest,” he added.
But while this method is safe for humans, it hasn’t been experimentally shown to work on patients experiencing respiratory distress yet. If future trials show that enteral ventilation is also effective, it could potentially help newborns and premature infants who are struggling to establish lung function after birth, aid patients with severe respiratory failure or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), or be applied in other situations in which temporary oxygen supplementation is needed.
“In such cases, intestinal oxygen delivery could serve as a ‘bridge’ therapy until normal respiration or full ventilatory support can be established,” Takebe said.
A figure outlining the first enteral ventilation trial in humans. Image: Fujii, Tasuku et al.
The team previously published a study in 2021 that showed enteral ventilation was effective in ameliorating respiratory failure in rats, mice, and pigs. This initial trial in humans involved 27 healthy male volunteers, who received a liquid called perfluorodecalin through their rectums in an enema-like process.Since the trial was only intended to determine the safety of the procedure, rather than probe its efficacy in humans, the perfluorodecalin was not oxygenated and none of the volunteers were experiencing any respiratory distress during the course of the study.
“The results aligned closely with what we had anticipated from our preclinical data,” Takebe said. “We found that intrarectal administration of perfluorodecalin up to 1,000 mL was safe and well tolerated, with only mild and transient gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating.”
“The next phase will involve testing ‘oxygenated’ perfluorodecalin (O₂-PFD) in patients with hypoxemia to evaluate actual oxygen transfer efficacy,” he added. “We are currently planning a Phase II trial in collaboration with clinical partners in Japan and the U.S.”
Takebe and his colleagues were inspired to develop this roundabout route by aquatic species, such as loaches, which absorb oxygen through their intestines to survive in low-oxygen environments. While the idea of rectally administering perfluorodecalin is relatively new, the use of oxygenated liquid for ventilation dates back decades. It even shows up in James Cameron’s 1989 thriller The Abyss, which includes a real scene of a rat breathing in a tank of liquid perfluorocarbon.
The technique may prove to be an effective means to alleviate respiratory distress in humans, but it’s also inspired its fair share of jokes because, well, it is about butt breath, after all.
In 2024, for instance, Takebe’s team received the Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical award that honors “achievements so surprising that they make people laugh, then think,” according to its website. Fellow Ig Nobel awardees include a team that levitated a frog in midair and another that investigated why pregnant women aren’t constantly tipping over.
“Receiving the Ig Nobel Prize was both humorous and humbling,” Takebe said. “It was a reminder that truly unconventional ideas often begin at the boundary between curiosity and skepticism.”
“While the prize is lighthearted in tone, I do believe it serves a serious purpose, encouraging the public to stay curious and to appreciate how even seemingly odd scientific questions can lead to meaningful innovations,” he concluded. “What began as a playful concept is now moving closer to a viable medical technology.”
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Il giornalista Sigfrido #Ranucci, conduttore di Report, ha denunciato pubblicamente un presunto tentativo di «punire» la sua trasmissione attraverso l’uso politico del Garante per la privacy. «In questi giorni sto ricevendo solidarietà bipartisan, ma si sta rivelando ipocrita — ha detto — perché da una parte mi si esprime vicinanza, dall’altra qualcuno sta armando il Garante per colpire Report e dare un segnale esemplare ad altre trasmissioni». Ranucci ha parlato da remoto nel corso di una conferenza stampa al Parlamento europeo, organizzata dall’eurodeputato del Partito democratico Sandro Ruotolo.
Nota del canale: deregittimare le autorità indipendenti non è mai una buona idea. La politica non attende altro. Se Ranucci dispone di informazioni sul fatto che il #GarantePrivacy si sia prestato un uso politico del suo ruolo, dovrebbe immediatamente informare le autorità giudiziaria. L'autorità per la protezione dei dati personali si muove nell'ambito delle proprie prerogative, talvolta d'ufficio. E quindi sempre possibile che un reclamo al garante venga fatto sulla base di motivazioni politiche, ma viene sempre vagliato in base alla procedibilità.
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10 Cent Microcontroller Makes Music
Compared to the old 8-bit Arduinos, it’s incredible how cheap modern microcontrollers like the ESP32 have become. But there are even cheaper options out there if you don’t need that kind of horsepower, and are willing to do a little work yourself, as [atomic14] demonstrates.
The CH32V003 is a dirt cheap microcontroller—which can reportedly be had for as little as 10 cents if you know where to look. It’s not the most powerful chip by any means, boasting just 16 K flash, and 2 K of SRAM. However, it is a 32-bit RISC V machine, and it does run at 48 MHz—giving it a leg up on many 8-bit parts that are still out there.
Surprisingly there aren’t a whole lot of CH32V003 products for the maker market, so if you want to play with it, you’ll probably need to spin up your own boards. [atomic14] does just that, showing us how the chip can be put to good use by turning it into a little musical trinket. It’s a fun demo, and a great way to get to grips with programming on a new microcontroller platform.
It’s hard to get more chiptune than a 10 cent chip beeping its little head off. How could possibly justify spending tens of dollars modding a Game Boy when this exists, even if it sounds like a caffeinated greeting card?
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Un tribunale ordina a NSO Group di smettere di utilizzare spyware contro WhatsApp
Un tribunale federale ha ordinato alla società israeliana NSO Group (sviluppatrice dello spyware commerciale Pegasus) di smettere di utilizzare spyware per prendere di mira e attaccare gli utenti di WhatsApp.
Ricordiamo che Pegasus è una piattaforma spyware sviluppata da NSO Group. Pegasus viene venduto come spyware legale e utilizzato per attività di spionaggio e sorveglianza in tutto il mondo. Pegasus (e, tramite esso, i clienti di NSO Group) è in grado di raccogliere messaggi di testo e informazioni sulle app da dispositivi iOS e Android, intercettare chiamate, tracciare posizioni, rubare password e altro ancora.
Nel 2019, i rappresentanti di WhatsApp hanno intentato una causa contro NSO Group, accusando l’azienda di aver favorito e favorito attacchi informatici condotti per conto di vari governi in 20 paesi, tra cui Messico, Emirati Arabi Uniti e Bahrein. La causa chiedeva un risarcimento pecuniario e un’ingiunzione contro tali pratiche.
Questo contenzioso continua ancora oggi. Ad esempio, alla fine del 2024, sono diventati pubblici documenti giudiziari non redatti . Secondo questi documenti, fino ad aprile 2018 circa, NSO Group ha utilizzato un client WhatsApp personalizzato (WhatsApp Installation Server, o WIS) e un exploit proprietario chiamato Heaven per gli attacchi. Questo exploit poteva impersonare il client WhatsApp ufficiali ed è stato utilizzato per installare Pegasus sui dispositivi delle vittime da un server di terze parti controllato da NSO.
Dopo che gli sviluppatori di WhatsApp hanno scoperto il problema e hanno bloccato l’accesso di NSO Group ai dispositivi e ai server infetti con patch rilasciate a settembre e dicembre 2018, l’exploit Heaven ha smesso di funzionare.
Poi, nel febbraio 2019, NSO Group ha creato un nuovo exploit, Eden, per aggirare le nuove misure di sicurezza di WhatsApp. Nel maggio 2019, i funzionari di WhatsApp hanno scoperto che Eden era stato utilizzato dai clienti di NSO Group per attaccare circa 1.400 dispositivi, molti dei quali appartenevano ad avvocati, giornalisti, attivisti per i diritti umani, dissidenti politici, diplomatici e alti funzionari stranieri.
La scorsa settimana, il giudice Phyllis J. Hamilton della Corte distrettuale degli Stati Uniti per il distretto settentrionale della California ha accolto la richiesta di un’ingiunzione permanente presentata dal proprietario di WhatsApp, Meta, contro NSO Group nel 2019.
La decisione del tribunale obbliga NSO Group a cessare definitivamente di prendere di mira gli utenti di WhatsApp, tentando di infettare i loro dispositivi o di intercettare i messaggi di WhatsApp, protetti dalla crittografia end-to-end tramite il protocollo open source Signal. Hamilton ha inoltre ordinato a NSO Group di cancellare tutti i dati precedentemente ottenuti prendendo di mira gli utenti di WhatsApp.
I rappresentanti di NSO Group avevano precedentemente affermato che una simile decisione avrebbe “costretto l’azienda a chiudere” perché Pegasus era il suo prodotto di punta. Tuttavia, Hamilton ha ritenuto che il danno che Pegasus avrebbe causato a Meta superasse tali considerazioni.
“La corte ritiene che qualsiasi azienda che gestisca le informazioni personali degli utenti e investa risorse nella crittografia di tali informazioni subisca accessi non autorizzati, e questo non è solo un danno reputazionale, ma un danno aziendale”, ha affermato Hamilton. “In sostanza, aziende come WhatsApp vendono, tra le altre cose, la privacy delle informazioni, e qualsiasi accesso non autorizzato compromette tale vendita. Le azioni degli imputati vanificano uno degli scopi principali del servizio dei querelanti, che costituisce un danno diretto”.
Il giudice ha inoltre respinto la richiesta di Meta di estendere l’ingiunzione ai governi stranieri che potrebbero utilizzare WhatsApp, osservando che gli Stati sovrani non sono parti in causa. Anche la richiesta di Meta di estendere l’ingiunzione agli attacchi mirati agli utenti di altri prodotti Meta (come Facebook e Instagram) è stata respinta, citando la mancanza di prove di attacchi mirati.
“La sentenza odierna impedisce allo sviluppatore di spyware NSO Group di prendere di mira nuovamente WhatsApp e i nostri utenti in tutto il mondo“, ha dichiarato Will Cathcart, CEO di WhatsApp. “Accogliamo con favore questa decisione, che arriva dopo sei anni di azioni legali per ritenere NSO Group responsabile dei suoi attacchi alla società civile. Crea un precedente importante: prendere di mira un’azienda statunitense comporta gravi conseguenze”.
Hamilton ha inoltre ridotto i danni punitivi assegnati dalla giuria a NSO Group nel maggio 2025. Il verdetto originale della giuria obbligava NSO Group a pagare a WhatsApp 167 milioni di dollari, ma tale cifra è stata ora ridotta a 4 milioni di dollari. Il giudice ha osservato che i criteri precedentemente utilizzati dalla giuria per determinare l’importo della sanzione erano errati.
I rappresentanti del gruppo NSO hanno dichiarato ai media che la società ha accolto con favore la decisione del tribunale di ridurre i danni punitivi del 97%, “rispetto all’importo eccessivo” inizialmente determinato dalla giuria.
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Movida violenta a Viale Ippocrate
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Accolgo: il progetto dell’Ue a sostegno delle famiglie ucraine con bambini affetti da tumore
[quote]Video-inchiesta di Elisa Ortuso con il quale ha vinto il Premio Megalizzi-Niedzielski 2025 della Ue rivolto ai giovani giornalisti
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Tutelare i settori critici e promuovere la cultura degli investimenti in sicurezza. Cosa farà la Fondazione Praexidia
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La sicurezza economica e industriale italiana passa oggi per la tutela dei settori strategici e da una gestione più consapevole delle tecnologie critiche. La pandemia e la guerra in
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Nuovo stop al processo Regeni: gli atti vanno alla Consulta
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La Corte d’Assise di Roma ha deciso di sospendere il processo per la morte di Giulio Regeni, disponendo l’invio degli atti alla Corte Costituzionale. La decisione è legata a una questione di
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Cybersicurezza. Piroddi (Aruba Academy): “Sfida culturale che richiede competenze e collaborazione”
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La crescente complessità del contesto digitale deve procedere di pari passo con una maggiore consapevolezza della sicurezza digitale: in Italia nel 2024 sono stati registrati 357 incidenti gravi e oltre il 10% degli
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trump è riuscito a fare un danno serio... apparire come debole e incostante, e quindi in definitiva inefficace. la usa politica ondivaga questo produce: un danno di immagine. ma non è utile alla nostra causa. non c'è da rallegrarsene. bene o male al momento dipendiamo ancora noi europei dalla deterrenza usa. e certo pacifismo è utile solo a putin.
Built-In Batteries: a Daft Idea With an Uncertain Future
Having a gadget’s battery nestled snugly within the bowels of a device has certain advantages. It finally solves the ‘no batteries included’ problem, and there is no more juggling of AA or AAA cells, nor their respective chargers. Instead each device is paired to that one battery that is happily charged using a standardized USB connector, and suddenly everything is well in the world.
Everything, except for the devices that cannot be used while charging, wireless devices that are suddenly dragging along a wire while charging and which may have charging ports in irrational locations, as well as devices that would work quite well if it wasn’t for that snugly embedded battery that’s now dead, dying, or on fire.
Marrying devices with batteries in this manner effectively means tallying up all the disadvantages of the battery chemistries and their chargers, adding them to the device’s feature list, and limiting their effective lifespan in the process. It also prevents the rapid swapping with fresh batteries, which is why everyone is now lugging chunky powerbanks around instead of spare batteries, and hogging outlets with USB chargers. And the task of finding a replacement for non-standardized pouch cell batteries can prove to be hard or impossible.
Looking at the ‘convenience’ argument from this way makes one wonder whether it is all just marketing that we’re being sold. Especially in light of the looming 2027 EU regulation on internal batteries that is likely to wipe out the existence of built-in batteries with an orbital legal strike. Are we about to say ‘good riddance’ to a terrible idea?
Not Very Pro
To further rub in how much of a terrible idea built-in batteries are, one only has to look at professional equipment, particularly in the audiovisual world. Whether we are talking about DSLRs, mirror-less cameras, or professional video cameras, they all have as standard feature the ability to quickly swap batteries. Nikon and Canon cameras use a range of proprietary-but-standard Li-ion batteries, with Sony’s video camera batteries also used on portable studio lighting. For the super-expensive Red video cameras you can use either the massive Redvolt batteries that dangle off the side or a power adapter.
The reasoning here is simple: when you are doing a photo or film shoot you do not have time for charging, so you load up with a stash of charged batteries beforehand. As the current battery becomes drained, you pop open the battery hatch or detach the current pack and slam in a fresh battery before resuming. During moments of downtime you can put the drained batteries on the charger that you have squirreled away somewhere. This way you stay wireless and charged with zero fuss, and if you have enough batteries, zero downtime.
Even within the era of budget photo and video cameras you’d be able to do this. When it comes to my own JVC camcorder and Canon IXUS 100 IS point-and-shoot camera, both offer this feature, even if the battery swapping experience doesn’t feel as premium as with the Nikon D7200 DSLR and its EN-EL15 batteries that is used for more serious occasions. Swapping batteries with the DSLR in particular is as easy as swapping SD cards, which is to say a matter of seconds.
One might get the idea here that the main reason to stuff a pouch cell somewhere inside the device is mostly a cost-saving measure, as it omits the battery terminals and ejection mechanism for the pack.
Battery Decay
Another reason why having a built-in battery with a multi-thousand-Euro DSLR would be a terrible idea beyond the insanity of having to ‘charge the DSLR’, is that the battery will be dead long before even the warranty on the DSLR has expired, especially if you are an avoid shooter. Even if you do not use a device that much, the fact of the matter is that lithium-ion cells begin to degrade as soon as they have been manufactured. This may be acceptable in a €1,000+ smartphone when people buy a new one every other year anyway, but becomes a problem when you’d like to use a device for much longer.
A good summary of the how and why of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) can be found in this IEEE review article by Wiljan Vermeer et al. from 2021. The three main aging mechanisms are:
- Loss of Lithium Inventory (LLI).
- Loss of Active Material (LAM).
- Conductivity Loss (CL).
There are multiple ways in which each type of aging can occur, with most requiring the cell to be charged and discharged, as this inflicts mechanical and other types of stress. When it comes to storing LIBs, we enter the territory of calendar aging. This has an irreversible and reversible component, the former being impacted by three components: the state of charge (SoC), temperature, and time.
What this tells us is that although you can affect LIB calendar aging, it’s a pretty inevitable aspect of their chemistry. This is true even in the case of the lithium-polymer (LiPo) LIB type batteries with its polymer electrolyte. This effectively means that charging the battery in a device to 80% instead of 100% will give it some more life, but you’d have to drop down to 50% or less to see the big gains. It’s also highly advisable to keep the battery relatively cool, which is where fast-charging is a terrible idea, especially as the resistance of the battery goes up due to aging.
While the exact mechanisms behind calendar aging are still being investigated, it’s likely that the layer that forms at the electrochemically unstable electrolyte-electrode interface (SEI) restructures to prevent the transfer of lithium ions, effectively increasing the measured resistance via the CL aging path.
In addition to calendar aging you have the charge-discharge cycle-based aging mechanisms, which not only affects the SEI, but also causes mechanical expansion of the graphite anode material, which leads to both the LLI and LAM aging paths. When you then add in the typical charging method for gadgets like smartphones using a LIB-based powerbank, you end up with double the charge-discharge cycles over simply slotting in a fresh battery.
End Of The Road
Beyond larger electronic devices, pouch cell LIBs are now integrated in countless more gadgets, from lamps to Bluetooth speakers. To address the sheer volume of these built-in LIBs, the EU’s Battery Regulation will begin to enforce its removability and replaceability requirements starting on 18 February of 2027.
The batteries which we discussed in this article fall under so-called ‘portable batteries’, meaning that it weighs less than 5 kg and is not used for an electric vehicle. These are required to make it possible for the end user to replace and remove, all without damaging or destroying the battery or the device, and without requiring any special tools. There are some partial safety-related exceptions where a professional can do said replacement, while a full exception is limited to a number of very specific device categories.
What exactly the fallout of this change will be remains to be seen, with manufacturers likely starting to adapt their products throughout 2026. Devices like smartphones, game controllers, but also Bluetooth speakers, wireless mice and portable game consoles will all be affected, so it’ll be interesting to see what approach we will see here.
Perhaps most of all what it might mean for standardization of cells and batteries, as every device that’s put on the market in the EU must have spare batteries available for reasonable cost for five years after it stops being sold. Clearly this would be cheaper if the same battery just got used for decades, somewhat like the veritable AA cell and today’s 18650 and similar formats.
So Many Standards
The process of standardization is a rough one, with sometimes the legislature leaning into the issue after consultation with a requirement, as with USB-based chargers. Other times the market simply picks something that’s readily available and does the job. One example of this is the Nokia BL-5C battery and its variations, which was quite prevalent due to Nokia using it for its phones and other platforms like the N-Gage. Consequently third-party manufacturers made their own compatible versions for use in a wide range of devices.
While the BL-5C is still fairly large, at 53 mm x 34 mm and a thickness of 6 mm, point and shoot cameras as well as action cameras feature a range of smaller batteries, with the Canon NB-4L as used in the IXUS point and shoot cameras providing more than 750 mAh in a 35 mm x 40 mm package and a similar 5.9 mm thickness. The third-party replacements that I got of the NB-4L claim to provide 1,200 mAh, as modern LIBs tend to have more capacity within the same form factor due to more refined manufacturing.
Interestingly, even rechargeable AA-sized cells aren’t limited to NiMH chemistry any more, with Li-ion options now available yet still providing the 1.5 V one would expect. This does require a bit of electronics in the cell, and results in them having a capacity that’s similar to that of NiMH AA cells, while suffering all the aging issues of any other LIB in addition to the limited number of charge cycles. Assuming that the 1.2 V of NiMH cells is acceptable, then devices could accept AA or AAA NiMH cells.
Of note here is that none of this means that having a power input port for charging the battery or cell inside the device itself is no longer possible or allowed. Depending on the device manufacturer, the new EU regulations should mean little difference for the end user, other than having the option to pop open each device to extract and replace the battery. This could mean that wireless mice and Bluetooth headsets will soon feature an alternative to sticking in that charge cable and have the device be mostly useless until its built-in battery has soaked up sufficient juice.
Although this is an EU-only thing, it’s likely to come to every other part of the globe as well.
An analysis of how tools to make non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes spread online, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shows X and search engines surface these sites easily.#Deepfakes #Socialmedia
New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines
A new analysis of synthetic intimate image abuse (SIIA) found that the tools for making non-consensual, sexually explicit deepfakes are easily discoverable all over social media and through simple searches on Google and Bing.Research published by the counter-extremism organization Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows how tools for creating non-consensual deepfakes spread across the internet. They analyzed 31 websites for SIIA tools, and found that they received a combined 21 million visits a month, with up to four million visits in one month.
Chiara Puglielli and Anne Craanen, the authors of the research paper, used SimilarWeb to identify a common group of sites that shared content, audiences, keywords and referrals. They then used the social media monitoring tool Brandwatch to find mentions of those sites and tools on X, Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, Tumblr, public pages on Instagram and Facebook, forums, blogs and review sites, according to the paper. “We found 410,592 total mentions of the keywords between 9 June 2020 and 3 July 2025, and used Brandwatch’s ability to separate mentions by source in order to find which sources hosted the highest volumes of mentions,” they wrote.
The easiest place to find SIIA tools was through simple web searches. “Searches on Google, Yahoo, and Bing all yielded at least one result leading the user to SIIA technology within the first 20 results when searching for ‘deepnude,’ ‘nudify,’ and ‘undress app,’” the authors wrote. Last year, 404 Media saw that Google was also advertising these apps in search results. But Bing surfaces the tools most readily: “In the case of Bing, the first results for all three searchers were SIIA tools.” These weren’t counting advertisements on the search engines that the websites would have paid for, but were organic search results surfaced by the engines’ crawlers and indexing.
X was another massively popular way these tools spread, they found: “Of 410,592 total mentions between June 2020 and July 2025, 289,660 were on X, accounting for more than 70 percent of all activity.” A lot of these were bots. “A large volume of traffic appeared to be inorganic, based on the repetitive style of the usernames, the uniformity of posts, and the uniformity of profile pictures,” Craanen told 404 Media. “Nevertheless, this activity remains concerning, as its volume is likely to attract new users to these tools, which can be employed for activities that are illegal in several contexts.”
One major spike in mentions of the tools on social media happened in early 2023 on Tumblr, when a woman posted about her experience being a target of sexual harassment from those very same tools. As targets of malicious deepfakes have said over and over again, the price of speaking up about one’s own harassment, or even objecting to the harassment of others, is the risk of drawing more attention and harassment to themselves.
‘I Want to Make You Immortal:’ How One Woman Confronted Her Deepfakes Harasser
“After discovering this content, I’m not going to lie… there are times it made me not want to be around any more either,” she said. “I literally felt buried.”404 MediaSamantha Cole
Another spike on X in 2023 was likely the result of bot advertisements for a single SIIA tool, Craanen said, and the spike was a result of those bots launching. X has rules against “unwanted sexual conduct and graphic objectification” and “inauthentic media,” but the platform remains one of the most significant places where tools for making that content are disseminated and advertised.Apps and sites for making malicious deepfakes have never been more common or easier to find. There have been several incidents where schoolchildren have used “undress” apps on their classmates, including last year when a Washington state high school was rocked by students using AI to take photos from other children’s Instagram accounts and “undress” around seven of their underage classmates, which police characterized as a possible sex crime against children. In 2023, police arrested two middle schoolers for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of their 12 and 13 year old classmates, and police reports showed the preteens used an application to make the images.
A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology found that 40 percent of students and 29 percent of teachers said they know of an explicit deepfake depicting people associated with their school being shared in the past school year.
Laws About Deepfakes Can’t Leave Sex Workers Behind
As lawmakers propose federal laws about preventing or regulating nonconsensual AI generated images, they can’t forget that there are at least two people in every deepfake.404 MediaSamantha Cole
The “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks” (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, passed earlier this year, requires platforms to report and remove synthetic sexual abuse material, and after years of state-by-state legislation around deepfake harassment is the first federal-level law to attempt to confront the problem. But critics of that law have said it carries a serious risk of chilling legitimate speech online.“The persistence and accessibility of SIIA tools highlight the limits of current platform moderation and legal frameworks in addressing this form of abuse. Relevant laws relating to takedowns are not yet in full effect across the jurisdictions analysed, so the impact of this legislation cannot yet be fully known,” the ISD authors wrote. “However, the years of public awareness and regulatory discussion around these tools, combined with the ease with which users can still discover, share and deploy these technologies suggests that takedowns cannot be the only tool used to counter their proliferation. Instead, effective mitigation requires interventions at multiple points in the SIIA life cycle—disrupting not only distribution but also discovery and demand. Stronger search engine safeguards, proactive content-blocking on major platforms, and coordinated international policies are essential to reducing the scale of harm.”
Laws About Deepfakes Can’t Leave Sex Workers Behind
As lawmakers propose federal laws about preventing or regulating nonconsensual AI generated images, they can't forget that there are at least two people in every deepfake.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
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Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.#Privacy #Meta
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
The sound of power tools screech in what looks like a workshop with aluminum bubble wrap insulation plastered on the walls and ceiling. A shirtless man picks up a can of compressed air from the workbench and sprays it. He’s tinkering with a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. At one point he squints at a piece of paper, as if he is reading a set of instructions.Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses are the tech giant’s main attempt at bringing augmented reality to the masses. The glasses can take photos, record videos, and may soon use facial recognition to identify people. Meta’s glasses come with a bright LED light that illuminates whenever someone hits record. The idea is to discourage stalkers, weirdos, or just anyone from filming people without their consent. Or at least warn people nearby that they are. Meta has designed the glasses to not work if someone covers up the LED with tape.
That protection is what the man in the workshop is circumventing. This is Bong Kim, a hobbyist who modifies Meta Ray-Ban glasses for a small price. Eventually, after more screeching, he is successful: he has entirely disabled the white LED that usually shines on the side of Meta’s specs. The glasses’ functions remain entirely intact; the glasses look as-new. People just won’t know the wearer is recording.
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The app, which went viral before facing multiple data breaches, is currently unavailable on the Apple App Store.#tea #News
Apple Removes Women Dating Safety App from the App Store
Apple has removed Tea, the women’s safety app which went viral earlier this year before facing multiple data breaches, from the App Store.“This app is currently not available in your country or region,” a message on the Apple App Store currently says when trying to visit a link to the app.
Apple told 404 Media in an email it removed the app, as well as a copycat called TeaOnHer, for failing to meet the company’s terms of use around content moderation and user privacy. Apple also said it received an excessive number of complaints, including ones about the personal data of minors being posted in the apps.
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Randy Nelson, head of insights and media resources at app intelligence company Appfigures, first alerted 404 Media to the app’s removal.
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When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.#News
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
Sleepers snoozing in Eight Sleep smartbeds had a bad night on Monday when a major outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused their beds to malfunction. Some were left with the bed’s heat blasting, others were left in a sitting position and unable to recline. One woman said her bed went haywire and she had to unplug it from the wall.At around 3 a.m. ET on Monday morning the US-EAST-1 AWS cluster went down and screwed up internet connected services across the planet. Customers for the banks Lloyds and Halifax couldn’t access their accounts. United Airlines check-ins stopped functioning. And people who rest in Eight Sleep beds awoke to find their mattresses had turned against them.
An Eight Sleep bed is a smart bed that starts at $2,700. Users provide their own mattress and Eight Sleep sells them a mattress cover and a “Pod” that acts as the brain of the system. If customers want to spend a few thousand more, they can get a base that adjusts the position of the mattress, provides biometric sleeping data, and heats and cools the sleeper. Customers must also subscribe to a service for Eight Sleep, which ranges from $17 to $33 a month.
Eight Sleep runs on the cloud and when the servers go down or the customer’s internet goes out it bricks the bed. There’s no offline mode. Customers have complained about the lack of an offline mode for a while, but the AWS outage focused their rage.
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“So apparently, when my internet goes down, my bed decides to go on strike too. A quick outage, and boom—no change in sleep position available, not even with manual taps,” one customer on r/eightsleep said. “Maybe consider giving people a grace period before their $5,000 bed locks them into the world’s most ergonomic sitting position. AWS attack or Internet down for a few hours should not brick my bed.”“Cloud only is unacceptable,” said another. “It’s 2025 there is no reason an internet or AWS server outage should impact your entire customer base's sleep—especially given the price tag of your product. Need EightSleep’s product team to opine here, your customer base demands it!”
“My pod is at +5 and I am sweating cuz I can’t turn it down or off,” said one comment.
Eight Sleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti apologized for the restless night in a statement posted to X. “The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it,” he said. He added that the company was restoring the bed’s features as AWS came back online and promised to outage-proof the Pods.
“Mine is still not working—it went super haywire and still seems to be turning on and off randomly with the inability to stop or control it. I had to unplug it,” ESPN host Victoria Arlen said on X, replying to Franceschetti. “I tried to get it going again and it’s still uncontrollable with the system turning on and off.”
Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position due to an AWS outage. Cmon now
— Brandon (@Brandon25774008) October 21, 2025
“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position due to an AWS outage. Cmon now,” @Brandon25774008 said on X.The truth is that so long as Eight Sleep beds have to communicate with a server to function, they’re always in danger of dying. That point of failure means the beds could go out at any time leaving the people who paid $5,000 for a fancy bed with little recourse. And, of course, no company lasts forever.
“When ES eventually goes bust, our pods will be bricked,” one Redditor said. “The fact that the pods cannot be controlled when you don’t have the internet is diabolical. I wish I knew this before purchasing. This basically means in the possibly near future, all of our pods will be bricked […] ES need to get their heads out of their ass and for once do a pro customer change and introduce an ‘offline’ mode where we can connect to the pod directly and at the very least change the temperature. It has wifi, it can make its own SSID, just make it work ES.”
Pro-active ES users have already found one solution: jailbreak the Pod. The ES sub is—at a minimum—$200 a year, the Pod uploads multiple GBs of telemetry data to ES servers every month, and when the internet goes down the bed dies. If you must own a $5,000 bed that heats and cools you dynamically, shouldn’t you take full control of it?
There’s an active Discord and a Github for a group of Eight Sleep snoozers who’ve decided to do just that. According to the GitHub, the jailbreak “allows complete control of device WITHOUT requiring internet access. If you lose internet, your pod WILL NOT turn off, it will continue working!”
Data centers are vulnerable. Server clusters go down. As long as there is a single point of failure and your device is commuting back to a network out of your control, it’s a risk. We have allowed tech companies to mediate the most basic functions of our lives, from cooking to travel to sleep. The AWS and ES outage is a stark reminder that we should do what we can to limit the control these tech companies have over our lives.
“I’m continuously horrified that I inextricably linked my sleep and therefore health to a cloud provider’s reliability,” one person said in the comments on Reddit.
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Hackers targeting ICE and other agencies; Wikipedia's AI problem now has some data; and OpenAI's inevitable pivot to sex bot.
Hackers targeting ICE and other agencies; Wikipediax27;s AI problem now has some data; and OpenAIx27;s inevitable pivot to sex bot.#Podcast
Podcast: Hackers Dox ICE
We start this week with Joseph’s articles about a hacking group that doxed DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. The group then sent us the personal data of officials from the NSA and a bunch of other government agencies. After the break, Emanuel revisits Wikipedia’s AI problem. In the subscribers-only section, Sam explains OpenAI’s inevitable path to an AI sex bot.
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- How Artists Are Keeping 'the Lost Art' of Neon Signs Alive
- Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
- Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
- Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
- OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny
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After condemnation from Trump’s AI czar, Anthropic’s CEO promised its AI is not woke.#News #AI #Anthropic
Anthropic Promises Trump Admin Its AI Is Not Woke
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a lengthy statement on the company’s site in which he promises Anthropic’s AI models are not politically biased, that it remains committed to American leadership in the AI industry, and that it supports the AI startup space in particular.Amodei doesn’t explicitly say why he feels the need to state all of these obvious positions for the CEO of an American AI company to have, but the reason is that the Trump administration’s so-called “AI Czar” has publicly accused Anthropic of producing “woke AI” that it’s trying to force on the population via regulatory capture.
The current round of beef began earlier this month when Anthropic’s co-founder and head of policy Jack Clark published a written version of a talk he gave at The Curve AI conference in Berkeley. The piece, published on Clark’s personal blog, is full of tortured analogies and self-serving sci-fi speculation about the future of AI, but essentially boils down to Clark saying he thinks artificial general intelligence is possible, extremely powerful, potentially dangerous, and scary to the general population. In order to prevent disaster, put the appropriate policies in place, and make people embrace AI positively, he said, AI companies should be transparent about what they are building and listen to people’s concerns.
“What we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine,” he wrote. “And like all the best fairytales, the creature is of our own creation. Only by acknowledging it as being real and by mastering our own fears do we even have a chance to understand it, make peace with it, and figure out a way to tame it and live together.”
Venture capitalist, podcaster, and the White House’s “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks was not a fan of Clark’s blog.
“Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering,” Sacks said on X in response to Clark’s blog. “It is principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.”
Things escalated yesterday when Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn’s co-founder and a megadonor to the Democratic party, supported Anthropic in a thread on X, saying “Anthropic was one of the good guys” because it's one of the companies “trying to deploy AI the right way, thoughtfully, safely, and enormously beneficial for society.” Hoffman also appeared to take a jab at Elon Musk’s xAI, saying “Some other labs are making decisions that clearly disregard safety and societal impact (e.g. bots that sometimes go full-fascist) and that’s a choice. So is choosing not to support them.”
Sacks responded to Hoffman on X, saying “The leading funder of lawfare and dirty tricks against President Trump wants you to know that ‘Anthropic is one of the good guys.’ Thanks for clarifying that. All we needed to know.” Musk hopped into the replies saying: “Indeed.”
“The real issue is not research but rather Anthropic’s agenda to backdoor Woke AI and other AI regulations through Blue states like California,” Sacks said. Here, Sacks is referring to Anthropic’s opposition to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which wanted to stop states from regulating AI in any way for 10 years, and its backing of California’s SB 53, which requires AI companies that generate more than $500 million in annual revenue to make their safety protocols public.
All this sniping leads us to Amodei’s statement today, which doesn’t mention the beef above but is clearly designed to calm investors who are watching Trump’s AI guy publicly saying one of the biggest AI companies in the world sucks.
“I fully believe that Anthropic, the administration, and leaders across the political spectrum want the same thing: to ensure that powerful AI technology benefits the American people and that America advances and secures its lead in AI development,” Amodei said. “Despite our track record of communicating frequently and transparently about our positions, there has been a recent uptick in inaccurate claims about Anthropic's policy stances. Some are significant enough that they warrant setting the record straight.”
Amodei then goes to count the ways in which Anthropic already works with the federal government and directly grovels to Trump.
“Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan. We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race, and I personally attended an AI and energy summit in Pennsylvania with President Trump, where he and I had a good conversation about US leadership in AI,” he said. “Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer attended a White House event where we joined a pledge to accelerate healthcare applications of AI, and our Head of External Affairs attended the White House’s AI Education Taskforce event to support their efforts to advance AI fluency for teachers.”
The more substantive part of his argument is that Anthropic didn’t support SB 53 until it made an exemption for all but the biggest AI labs, and that several studies found that Anthropic’s AI models are not “uniquely politically biased,” (read: not woke).
“Again, we believe we share those goals with the Trump administration, both sides of Congress, and the public,” Amodei wrote. “We are going to keep being honest and straightforward, and will stand up for the policies we believe are right. The stakes of this technology are too great for us to do otherwise.”
Many of the AI industry’s most vocal critics would agree with Sacks that Clark’s blog and “fear-mongering” about AI is self-serving because it makes their companies seem more valuable and powerful. Some critics will also agree that AI companies take advantage of that perspective to then influence AI regulation in a way that benefits them as incumbents.
It would be a far more compelling argument if it didn’t come from Sacks and Musk, who found a much better way to influence AI regulation to benefit their companies and investments: working for the president directly and publicly bullying their competitors.
Americans Prioritize AI Safety and Data Security
Most Americans favor maintaining rules for AI safety and security, as well as independent testing and collaboration with allies in developing the technology.Benedict Vigers (Gallup)
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