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Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,” multiple Emmy nominations as a producer (HBO’s “Entourage” among them), and a filmography that spans crime dramas, comedies, and action blockbusters. Right now, he’s back on-screen in “By Any Means,” a manhunt thriller set during the 1966 Mississippi civil rights killings. He’s also signaling where he’s increasingly turning his attention. Wahlberg will sit down with [Bruce K. Lee](http://linkedin.com/in/bruce-k-lee-abb169168), founder and CEO of [Keebeck Wealth Management](https://www.keebeck.com/), on the main

Ant International launched the open source Agentic Mobile Protocol on April 28 in Kuala Lumpur to let mobile wallets and apps support AI agent payments, as most existing systems still rely on card networks. The framework includes tools for delegating payment authority to AI agents, settling very small agent-to-agent transactions, and verifying agent identity. Ant said it had open sourced the protocol and is working with more than 40 Alipay+ wallet partners that together cover 1.8 billion user accounts and 150 million merchants. [Juniper Research](https://www.juniperresearch.com/) estimated digital wallet users reached 4.4 billion in 2025 and will top 6 billion by 2030. The company also said it is piloting AI agent card transactions with Mastercard and Visa and is working with Google on rel

Cognition is the company behind Devin, an autonomous software engineer used by businesses around the world, from big banks to tech-native startups. As Cognition’s engineering teams write more code, reviewing that work has become a challenge. Cognition sees GPT‑6 Astra’s ability to test its work and show the results as a way to make code review more efficient. > “One of the big pieces that Astra improves on is its ability to test and prove that its work actually functions the way you expect.” Walden Yan, Co-founder, Cognition ## Testing software and showing the results Cognition is applying GPT‑6 Astra across its product lineup. “We’ve been using it to make improvements across our product, including the core cloud agent that is Devin, but also our CLI and desktop products,” says Yan. In one

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Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

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[OutSystems](https://www.outsystems.com/), an AI development platform company, released a commissioned global survey of nearly 1,900 IT leaders that found 96% of enterprises use AI agents. The survey also found that 94% worry that AI sprawl is raising complexity and security risks as adoption moves into production. Among 527 APAC respondents in India, Australia, and Japan, 44% in Japan said a lack of internal skills was the top barrier to application development, while governance and compliance stalled 50% of projects in Australia. The company said India had some of the highest levels of advanced or expert users of agentic AI, and that only 12% of organizations globally had implemented a centralized platform to manage AI sprawl. _🔗 Source: [OutSystems](https://www.outsystems.com/)_ ## 🧠 Fo

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Artificial intelligence researchers are warning the public to use strong passwords and promptly install software updates on their devices to combat "AI-driven computer worms," a new breed of cyber-threat they say can launch custom attacks on devices, sapping processing power and information as they hunt for new victims. In June, a University of Toronto team led by Canadian Institute for Advanced Research AI chair Nicolas Papernot announced that [publicly available AI models can power a worm capable of adapting its attack on the fly](https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-demonstrate-ai-worm-could-target-any-online-device) as it spreads between devices connected to the internet, including laptops, printers and cameras. The research, conducted in collaboration with the AI development h

* A developer emailed Claude Code creator Boris Cherny that AI coding had created "friction." * Cherny posted his full response to the engineer. * The developer's job is to "hold the bar on code quality," Cherny wrote. Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response. On Thursday, Anthropic's [Boris Cherny](https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-code-boris-cherny-better-way-measure-ai-success-dashboards-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: "What to do about slop?" Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as many as possible. It's no surprise that developers are reaching out to Cherny with their worr

[](https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/author/hamza-shaban) Sat, 12 September 2026 at 3:00 am GMT-7 3 min read Seemingly every week, a new, [alarming headline seizes social feeds](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/anthropic-worker-quits-over-ai-142515846.html) and forces a conversation about the dangers and future dangers of artificial intelligence. It doesn't help that companies at the frontier of AI development perpetuate those fears. They incorporate them into their business models, urgin

Apple Once Held The Future Of AI, And Then Threw It Away. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a forecasting model that analyzes time series alongside related data and known future events like sales promotions or weather forecasts. Instead of predicting the future step by step, the 330-million-parameter model fills in all future time points in a single pass, which cuts compute time and reduces compounding errors. The article Google's new AI model predicts the future from sales data, weather, and discount schedules appeared first on The Decoder .

Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work.

It's becoming increasingly common for people to use ChatGPT and other AI chatbots like Gemini, Copilot and Claude in their everyday lives. A recent survey from Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center found that [half of Americans now utilize these technologies](https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/03/12/survey-52-of-u-s-adults-now-use-ai-large-language-models-like-chatgpt/). "By any measure, the adoption and use of LLMs [large language models] is astounding," Lee Rainie, director of Elon's Imagining the Digital Future Center, said in a [university news release](https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/03/12/survey-52-of-u-s-adults-now-use-ai-large-language-models-like-chatgpt/). "I am especially struck by the ways these tools are being woven into people's social lives." **Tech:**[**Peopl

In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to steal API keys. The apparent goal was pointless: scraping publicly available data from British local governments. OpenAI reportedly never told those affected. The article OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google appeared first on The Decoder .

_Editor’s note: After more than a decade, this is the last_ WIRED _Security News This Week. “The roundup,” as we call it internally, started as a way to ensure that our readers knew about the latest key cybersecurity and privacy news even if we didn’t write about it ourselves. It was a simple way to highlight our own work and the wealth of other great journalism and research published in this realm every week._ _Over the years, the roundup has developed a devoted following, and some editions have even become viral hits—which is honestly weird, but the cybersecurity community is great and weird, so it feels right. Rest assured that something new and exciting is coming in the roundup’s place, so stay tuned for that! For now, as always, stay safe out there._ Meta [failed to catch roughly 350

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI’s relentless advance with growing unease. To them, the company appears less like an enthusiastic newcomer than an impossibly well-resourced interloper, charging into problems they have dedicated their lives to studying with little apparent regard for long-standing norms or the consequences for those left in its wake. At the heart of that unease is a sense that OpenAI is doing mathematics for different reasons. Mathematicians want to advance the fiel

At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Chinese technology company Xpeng said its humanlike robot IRON has begun mass production, a move that could push household robotics closer to everyday use. The company added that IRON may become the first humanoid robot to roll off the factory line using its own power, a milestone for a machine it ultimately hopes will assist people at home. ### Here's what to know According to Xpeng representatives who spoke with [Live Science](https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/eerily-humanlike-ai-powered-robot-enters-mass-production-in-china-its-makers-say-it-could-soon-be-helping-you-out-at-home), the company is making IRON in its current factories, although it has not disclosed how many units it plans to build. Live Science said the production version is about 5 fee

The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new gear, the two upgraded phones feature the faster A20 Pro processor with more GPU power as well as more neural cores for AI-related tasks, plus some welcome improvements […]

The impact of AI on the world's most popular web browser has meant that Google has, commencing immediately with the [rollout of Chrome 153](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/09/09/ignore-the-fud-google-updates-chrome-as-230-security-issues-confirmed/), accelerated the security update cycle from every four weeks to every two. This should come as no great surprise to regular readers, as I reported in March that this change would be happening. [I said at the time](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/03/04/google-confirms-new-browser-update-move-starting-with-chrome-153/) that this was necessary to help plug what is known as the [patch gap](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2026/07/31/google-insists-ai-and-chrome-are-making-the-web-a-safer-place/), and now Deepak R

Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the job is done. The article GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends appeared first on The Decoder .

Reasoning steps like calculation, formula retrieval, and deduction are clearly separable in a model's internal states, especially in the middle layers. That matters for AI safety, because models process more than their visible chain of thought reveals. The article AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Commvault has launched a new tool that promises to restore Active Directory (AD) access within minutes of a cyberattack, rather than the hours or days recovery can typically take. The Nasdaq-listed data resilience firm’s new Active Directory Pre Recover works by creating a clean, standby copy of AD in an isolated, air-gapped “Cleanroom” environment. If an organisation’s identity systems are compromised, it can fail over to this copy instead of running a full forest recovery. ## Built on existing Commvault tools [Commvault](https://www.commvault.com/)‘s solution draws on two existing technologies: Cleanroom, the air-gapped recovery environment, and Threat Scan, which continuously checks AD backups for malicious content before they’re used. The company says pairing the two means organisation

There are times when a civilization hears the alarm and mistakes the sound for action. We are living through one. [Jacob Coxon](https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476201283834281), after working at OpenAI and Anthropic, put the matter with brutal simplicity: _"Do not underestimate the power of this technology."_ Power. That is the word we should refuse to pass over. Not performance. Not intelligence. Not productivity. Power. Like Turing, Wiener, Good and Hawking before him, and Bostrom, Russell, Yudkowsky, Hinton, Bengio, Christiano, Carlsmith, Tegmark, Wozniak, Sutskever, Hassabis, Amodei, Leahy and, more recently, Gates, not without recalling the role popular culture has played in dramatizing such warnings through films such as Will Smith's _I, Robot_, Coxon confronts that unsettling

In a new robotics benchmark, GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial understanding. On StationeryBench, the model completed 7 out of 100 tasks with dual-arm robots, while competitor MolmoAct2 couldn't finish a single one. A researcher calls it a "step change in spatial reasoning." The article GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right back at Nvidia in chip orders. The article Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection […]

British fintech Revolut confirmed that it disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent requests sent from a legitimate government agency email domain. The exposed data included customers’ identity and contact details, including their birth date, postal and email addresses, and phone numbers, as well as copies of their identity documents including passports and driver’s licenses, according to a notification emailed to affected customers and reviewed by TechCrunch. The data may have also included verification selfies, account statements, and transaction histories, the firm said in its notification. A Revolut spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that a “limited” number of customers were impacted and said the company had contacted those cus

[ ](https://profiles.yahoo.com/brands/forbes/) Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff Updated Sat, 12 September 2026 at 3:29 pm UTC 1 min read ## Topline Anthropic CEO and billionaire Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence companies to del

The head of leading AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. In an essay called We Must Pace the Frontier, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in question, but the risks associated with it were "serious" and companies and governments must be given time to address them. He proposed a three-point plan that includes independent monitoring of AI models as they are developed, industry-wide regulation and global regulation. There have been growing concerns recently about the technology's potential risks - the most serious of which suggested [there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within the next decade](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwy1k42w4o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D

12 sep (Reuters) - El presidente ejecutivo de Anthropic, Dario Amodei, instó a las empresas de IA a moderar el ritmo al que mejoran las capacidades de sus modelos, ante los crecientes ‌temores sobre el uso indebido de la inteligencia artificial, y esbozó un marco de tres pasos ‌destinado a marcar el ritmo del desarrollo y disponer de más tiempo para gestionar sus riesgos. "Debemos ralentizar el ritmo al que mejoramos ​las capacidades de los modelos de IA. El progreso seguirá pareciendo rápido, y debemos hacer un uso prudente del tiempo que ganemos", afirmó Amodei en un artículo publicado en X. Su ensayo se produce después de que Anthropic publicó el jueves un informe de inteligencia sobre amenazas en el que se detallaba cómo varios actores habían utilizado sus ‌modelos de IA "Claude" para

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for a controlled slowdown in AI development. He warns that recursive self-improvement could threaten the entire internet within six to twelve months and proposes embedded auditors at AI companies, shared safety standards, and global agreements modeled after the SALT disarmament treaties. His warning comes just ahead of what could be the largest initial public offering in history. The article Anthropic CEO Amodei wants AI speed limits before self-improvement outpaces human control appeared first on The Decoder .

We’ve been seeing increasingly dire warnings from AI researchers about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and even [comments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate/) that it may be time to “pace” AI development. But what would that actually look like? In [a new blog post](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei not only echoed the call to “pace the frontier,” but also outlined three broad strategies for doing so. And he said Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to one of them. The [debate over AI safety and alignment](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/openais-hugging-face-breach-has-reignited-the-debate-over-alignment-and-control/) intensified this week after [researcher Jacob Coxon

Greg Evans Sat, 12 September 2026 at 9:42 am GMT-7 2 min read [](https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/5782db69e70c1306517d8f6e04966a37a7cea1f30385b70c4cb09b7eda2fdb80/lightyear_networkapi/resizefit_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_independent_577%2F11cbbe38a5111f0f0b401253f952cb59.jpg) EO of Anthropic Dario Amodei (Reuters) Anthropic CEO [Dario Amodei](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-anthropic-ai-consciousness-b2934300.h

Block ([XYZ](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/XYZ/)) CFO Amrita Ahuja holds a less dystopian view of artificial intelligence than [disgruntled AI researcher Jacob Coxon](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/disgruntled-ai-researcher-this-technology-could-kill-us-all-by-the-end-of-the-decade-165859921.html) and believes tech companies can strike a balance between providing users with choice and protecting them from AI harms. "We can't be paternalistic in how people use it, but we also have to have safeguards to ensure that we've got secure systems across how different companies, how people's money moves," Ahuja told Yahoo Finance from the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Tech Conference (video above). "When you think about money, health, these things that are core to our humanity, and co

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" - jargon that simply means to slow […]

Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

* AI leaders are rallying around calls for an AI slowdown. * Dario Amodei said he had "become convinced" it was necessary. * Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. The leaders of US AI labs are having a come-together moment. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday that he's "become convinced" AI needs to [pace its development](https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-slow-ai-safety-essay-openai-hugging-face-hack-2026-9?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) to avert disaster, other AI leaders quickly logged on to endorse the idea. Most notably, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X, "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier." Altman said OpenAI would commit, as Anthropic had earlier, to embedding third-party safety evaluators within t

Three of the world's top artificial intelligence companies' CEOs announced Saturday that they believe the industry needs to slow down. On Saturday, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI publicly backed a call to reduce the pace at which AI companies build more powerful models. This announcement comes just days after [Anthropic revealed](https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026) that its chatbot, Claude, was being used to attempt to [create bioweapons](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-disrupts-russian-chinese-ai-202300682.html), [spy on Ukraine](https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-09-10/anthropic-disrupts-russian-chinese-ai-campaigns-targeting-its-claude-models) and scam dating app users. On Saturday, Amodei [post

Tech bosses Elon Musk and Sam Altman have backed a call from the head of Anthropic to have permanent third-party reviewers inside "frontier" AI companies. Chief executive Dario Amodei has written an essay called We Must Pace the Frontier, in which he urges such companies to slow the rate at which they improve the capabilities of AI models. It comes amid increased fears about the possible misuse of AI, with Anthropic recently revealing that several actors had used its Claude AI models for activities including weapons development, cyber operations, surveillance ​and fraud. [👉](https://podfollow.com/thisiswhy)[**Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app**](https://podfollow.com/thisiswhy)[👈](https://podfollow.com/thisiswhy) Mr Amodei has come up with a three-part plan, the first of which he s

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SINGAPORE – Consumers who plan to buy a new personal computer are in for sticker shock. Latest market data from research firm IDC shows that average prices have surged by up to 40 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 from a year ago, driven by component shortages. Specifically, computer memory, storage and graphics cards are in short supply because [the expansion of global data centres to support artificial intelligence services](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/zuckerberg-musk-make-plea-at-g-20-for-more-ai-data-centres?ref=inline-article) has consumed the bulk of these components. IDC expects PC prices to remain high throughout 2027, dipping slightly only towards the second half of 2027. IDC figures show that the average price here for regular laptops rose by 26 per cent

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In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a […]