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The AI safety conversation took a striking turn this week, as the chiefs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind all landed in rare agreement: the latest generation of large language models carry real risks, and the industry needs to reckon with that honestly. When competitors start singing from the same hymn sheet, it's worth paying attention.
Shifting to Europe, Italian startup Exein just crossed into unicorn territory after raising two hundred seventy million dollars led by Headline, pushing its valuation to one point seven billion dollars. The company sits at the intersection of physical AI and embedded security, betting that as intelligence moves deeper into hardware, protecting those systems becomes critical infrastructure in itself.
And if you're carrying an Android phone, a practical reminder landed this week from Engadget. Because Android's open ecosystem makes it easier to accidentally install unsafe software, it's worth periodically scanning for spyware, checking app permissions, and removing anything you don't recognize. Your phone knows more about you than almost anyone — it should probably stay that way.
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