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King Charles brought together some of the most powerful names in artificial intelligence this week, hosting executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Google at his Scottish estate. The gathering focused on keeping AI, in the King's own words, in the service of humanity — a rare moment of royal diplomacy meeting Silicon Valley, coming just days after prominent industry voices called for a slowdown in development.
Shifting to security, a significant breach has hit Gyazo, the popular screenshot and image sharing tool. Japanese company Helpfeel confirmed attackers accessed over twenty three million user records in a September eleventh attack, along with metadata tied to roughly four hundred ninety million images. Stolen data includes personal information, login credentials, and Google sign-on tokens. Payment data appears safe, but private images may have been exposed, and viewing has been temporarily disabled while the investigation continues.
On the open web front, the World Wide Web Consortium has launched its first pilot program to support open source projects. The W3C, which has long set the standards underpinning the web, is now taking a more active role in sustaining the open source ecosystem those standards depend on — a quiet but meaningful shift in how the organization sees its responsibilities.
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