A WatchGuard Technologies survey of 684 employees at mid-sized companies in eight countries, including France, found that 64% use AI tools not approved by management. Fewer than 30% of the organisations keep an inventory of such software.
Decompiling games used to be a slow and very difficult task. A reverse-engineering community has closed because AI now does it with ease, 404 Media reports.
The Verge criticises a growing wave of consumer gadgets that record everyone around them, whether or not they consent. With AI personal assistants such as Meta's Muse, users are asked to hand over not only their own data but other people's too.
A new Chrome update fixes 37 vulnerabilities, seven of them critical, in the second wave of patches in a week. Google relies heavily on AI to hunt for flaws, which is speeding up its update cycle.
AI governance startup nFOX Lab, which came out of stealth this week, launched a platform for managing company-owned language models. It also plans to open-source Blockhouse, a sandbox that limits what AI workloads can access and do, to help enterprises adopt open models on their own infrastructure.
The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating Anthropic and OpenAI. The agency may fine AI companies on a scale similar to firms that delay reporting data breaches.