A single Word file can now hijack your office AI.
A hidden note inside a Word file can hijack Microsoft Copilot and spread on its own, Google dissolves the team behind Nobel-winning AlphaFold, OpenAI and Anthropic ask Washington for a brake, and an Ateneo-led team reads heart function from a sticker.
A hidden note in Word hijacks Copilot
Researcher Hakon Maloy showed that white-on-white text buried in a Word file can order Microsoft Copilot to change the numbers in a document and copy itself into the next one, spreading between coworkers with nothing to click.
Google broke up its Nobel-winning team
Google DeepMind dissolved the dedicated team behind AlphaFold, the protein-mapping system that won a Nobel Prize, moving most of its researchers onto Gemini while close to a quarter of the original authors have left the company.
AI's biggest labs asked to be slowed down
OpenAI and Anthropic both endorsed a letter signed by more than 1,100 employees across Google, Meta and other AI companies, asking Washington to help set the pace of the most advanced AI before it starts improving itself.
Andrew Ng raised $100M to tutor you
Andrew Ng, who co-founded Coursera and taught millions of people online, started LearnVector with a $100 million investment from Coursera to build a tutor that plans a study path and stays with you until you actually get it.
Ateneo's AI reads hearts from a sticker
A team led by Ateneo de Manila University built a system that works out how well a heart is pumping from adhesive sensors stuck on a patient's back, reaching 97.78% accuracy without the specialized machines hospitals normally need.