A Guardian editorial uses this week's scramble to patch critical PHP flaws to argue that AI cuts both ways in security: it helped uncover the bugs but could also speed up their exploitation. The paper says global regulation must move forward despite resistance from the current US administration.
The US midterms are the first elections where AI is built into every major social media platform. The New York Times finds that efforts to limit its harms vary widely.
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Leidos a five-year, $95 million contract to bring AI automation and cloud tools to ELMS, the Pentagon system tracking more than 80 million items of government property. Leidos has supported the system for over 21 years.
Bull and Czech operator ČRA have signed a memorandum of understanding for an AI Gigafactory in the Czech Republic. The project, a candidate for the EU program, aims to provide sovereign AI to Central and Eastern Europe.
Federal disclosures show all three companies posted their biggest lobbying quarter between July and September. Nvidia spent $2.2 million, Anthropic $2.1 million and OpenAI $1.5 million.
At Smarsh's EDGE event, the archive of employee communications that financial firms keep for regulators was pitched as a source of business intelligence. AI can now analyze a year of emails, messages and AI prompts, but that makes governance the starting point.