Microsoft to tighten human rights measures after inquiry into Israel’s use of its tech | Microsoft

Microsoft has said it will tighten human-rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry into how the Israeli military used its cloud technology for the mass surveillance of Palestinians. On Thursday, Microsoft announced the completion of the inquiry and a series of new measures that include changes to how the company oversees…

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Scientists finally crack an “undruggable” pancreatic cancer target and nearly double survival

For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer between 2015 and 2021, about 97% died within five years of their diagnosis. Pancreatic cancer is so deadly in part because there are no effective screening tests, and it rarely causes noticeable…

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Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced industry. Secure your spot here….

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Stock market today: Live updates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE S&P 500 futures ticked lower on Thursday night as traders looked ahead to the release of May’s jobs report. Futures tied to the broad market index slipped 0.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures dipped 0.3%. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were…

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Mythos AI Model Finds Hundreds of Vulnerabilities in Firefox

Raffi Krikorian, chief technology officer at Mozilla, said that it’s important identify and start to close a bunch of critical vulnerabilities to mitigate risks as AI dependence builds up. Krikorian said that a major consideration is making sure models are on your side and consumers are not living in ‘someone else’s intelligence.’ (Source: Bloomberg)

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Anthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude — how your enterprise can keep up

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase in May wasn’t authored by humans, but by its own AI model, Claude, according to a new report shared by the record-breaking AI startup today. This transformation…

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