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Mercor CEO Brendan Foody.
  • Contractors said in at least five lawsuits that AI training startup Mercor exposed their data to hackers.
  • Mercor said last week it was "impacted" by compromised LiteLLM software.
  • One of the suits seeks to hold LiteLLM, security audit firm Delve, and others liable.

Contractors filed five lawsuits against Mercor, the AI training firm valued at $10


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We see a lot of doom and gloom about the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence, particularly centered on how it could create new problems in cybersecurity. Anthropic has announced a new initiative called Project Glasswing to help address those concerns by working "to secure the world’s most critical software" against AI-powered attacks. The endeavor includes Amazon Web Services


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It’s finally the end of the line for the 1st generation Amazon Kindle. | Image: Amazon

Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will "no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store," Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke wrote in an email to The Verge. Users will still be able



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X is rolling out an update to its in-app photo editor that gives users the ability to edit photos with xAI's Grok, blur faces and overlay text on images. The new editing features, in particular the addition of text-based edits via an AI assistant, bring it much closer in capabilities to dedicated photo apps like Google Photos.

As part of the update, users are able to prompt Grok to make edits to a


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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny said AI will have solved for coding for everyone by the end of 2026.
  • Anthropic said its next-generation AI model is too powerful for the public.
  • That's why Claude Mythos won't be publicly released, Anthropic said.
  • Anthropic said Mythos demonstrated concerning capabilities, including the ability to breach its own safeguards.

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On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, an update that could make it easier for Premium users to find new shows to listen to. Prompted Playlists were originally launched as a beta feature in December, but previously only worked for music. You can use the feature to effectively generate customized Discover Weekly playlists using text prompts to