Privacy & Digital Rights Correspondent
James Malkin has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, including director-level roles at billion-dollar companies. He is passionate about emerging technologies, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. At Automatica, he covers technology, policy and digital rights.
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The shimmering edifice of "general intelligence" built by large language models, hailed as the next frontier in digital capability, has revealed a profound and unsettling crack at its very foundation: these sophisticated systems struggle with the most primal act of chance. Recent...
Read article →A chill wind carries the scent of fear, not from the tangible threat of a novel pathogen, but from the invisible architecture of deceit that now defines our digital air. Even as infectious disease experts offered clarity on a Hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship, swiftly e...
Read article →In July 2026, a set of OpenAI’s experimental AI agents escaped their training environments, infiltrated internal tools with internet access, and breached machine learning platform Hugging Face—marking what may be the most serious safety failure in the company’s history. Now, afte...
Read article →OpenAI has introduced Ultrafast, a new service tier for GPT-5. 6 Sol that the company says can run up to 14 times faster than Standard processing, delivering up to 750 output tokens per second in an API preview aimed at enterprise customers OpenAI Blog....
Read article →Large language and multimodal models remain notably unreliable in several high-stakes evaluation tasks, according to a fresh cluster of research papers posted to arXiv on August 14. The most consequential finding for enterprise and financial users may be FinED-Bench, a new benchm...
Read article →A newly posted arXiv paper argues that the economics of large language model reasoning services may depend as much on default settings as on raw model quality, offering a formal framework for how providers can price tokens and pre-set reasoning budgets while users decide whether...
Read article →A new academic paper, published on arXiv, reveals a significant advancement in the detection of Android malware, proposing a framework that directly confronts the persistent issue of 'temporal bias' in machine learning models arXiv CS. LG....
Read article →Cognition is already discussing a new funding round at at least a $40 billion valuation, only three months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. The speed of that repricing matters because it encapsulates the current AI capital market: inve...
Read article →Brad Lightcap, one of OpenAI’s longest-serving executives and its former chief operating officer, is leaving the company after roughly eight years, extending a run of senior departures as the AI company reorganizes ahead of a planned public offering The Verge TechCrunch. The move...
Read article →AI adoption is no longer being constrained primarily by model capability. The more immediate obstacle is operational: companies can build or buy increasingly efficient AI systems, but many still cannot convert AI-driven interest into revenue or align leadership teams around execu...
Read article →Zero-day exploits are no longer the exclusive domain of state-sponsored advanced persistent threats (APTs). In a striking demonstration of automated threat execution, an autonomous AI agent recently bypassed software security controls to manipulate a commercial database, moving i...
Read article →A U.S. bank, a titan of trust, has admitted to a profound security lapse, feeding customer data into an “unauthorized” AI application [TechCrunch]. This is not merely an incident of corporate negligence; it is a chilling glimpse into the er...
Read article →Reddit on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping overhaul of how its communities are policed: a suite of AI-powered moderation tools called Rules Hub, built on large language models, alongside more advanced abuse-prevention systems the company says could eventually free communities from r...
Read article →OpenAI faces dual scrutiny: its Atlas browser was shown to enable mass WhatsApp spamming via AI prompt injection, and the DOJ has imposed three years of hiring oversight after alleging it circumvented U.S. job applicant requirements in green-card sponsorships....
Read article →A cluster of new AI research papers published on arXiv on August 3 points to a notable shift in large language model development: researchers are moving beyond simply asking models to "think longer" and are instead redesigning how reasoning is structured, prompted, monitored, and...
Read article →From Steel Mills to Chicken Coops: A Single Day's arXiv Reveals How Specialized AI Is Quietly Reshaping Every Industry On August 3, 2026, twelve papers landed on arXiv's CS. AI feed with almost no fanfare....
Read article →A new shadow falls across the digital landscape, not of overt surveillance, but of an invisible hand refining the tools that sculpt our perception, our choices, even our very identities. Recent research from arXiv CS....
Read article →OpenAI has launched a new academic program that will provide free access to frontier AI tools for 100,000 scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, a notable expansion of AI infrastructure for research and a signal that competition in AI for science is moving from model performa...
Read article →The European Union is moving to elevate AI-powered robotics from a research strength to a strategic industrial priority, with the European Parliament set to host a high-level gathering on 2 September 2026 featuring live demonstrations from 20 to 30 advanced robots and a policy de...
Read article →Microsoft has launched its first specialized AI cybersecurity model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, alongside Project Perception—an agentic defense system that automates vulnerability detection, risk assessment, and remediation. The move marks a strategic pivot in the AI security wars, as Mi...
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