OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Deals With U.S. AI Safety Institute

[ad_1] OpenAI and Anthropic have signed agreements with the U.S. government, offering their frontier AI models for testing and safety research. An announcement from NIST on Thursday revealed that the U.S. AI Safety Institute will gain access to the technologies “prior to and following their public release.” Thanks to the respective Memorandum of Understandings — … Read more

One of Microsoft’s most niche software tools hit by major phishing scam

[ad_1] Cybercriminals are using Microsoft Sway to host landing pages used in phishing campaigns, experts have claimed. The attack was spotted by cybersecurity researchers from Netskope Threat Labs, who observed a 2,000-fold increase in exploits in July 2024. You can be excused for not knowing what Sway is. It is a niche Microsoft product, a … Read more

What promises to be the “world’s most private VPN” is out – and looking for testers

[ad_1] Although it’s too early to tell if it’ll eventually win the title of best VPN app, the service that promises to be the “world’s most private VPN” has just launched its public beta testing. First introduced during last year’s Web Summit conference in Lisbon, NymVPN was developed as a solution to the problem of … Read more