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Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor's Instagram profile to be a "safe, trusted place where the stories, photos, videos, and memories shared reflect his legacy with authenticity, warmth, and care." A story posted to Zelda Williams' own Instagram account expands on the decision

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OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes on a new model, Astra, that it thinks could have "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, and the company says it instituted a two-week pause in reinforcement learning (RL) training on its "latest models intended for deploy

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DZone

Designing a Local-First Risk Detection Pipeline for Explainable Enterprise Decisions

Enterprise risk problems often start as data-platform issues. Challenges include fragmented signals, inconsistent definitions, missing context, weak lineage, and untimely alerts. Whether evaluating transactions, support messages, images, or metrics, the main question is: how can we turn imperfect evidence into explainable, defensible decisions? Observations from a hackathon revealed recurring design pressures in digital safety projects. Local language and context significantly influenced outcome

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