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A major law firm is rethinking what lawyers actually do. Gilbert and Tobin, one of Australia's leading legal practices, is working with OpenAI to restructure how its people work alongside artificial intelligence. Chief Executive Sam Nickless frames it not as automation, but as a fundamental rethink of the business of law itself, with AI handling routine work so human judgment can go where it matters most.
On the security front, new research is raising serious questions about how trustworthy AI agents really are when left to operate on their own. Scientists found that autonomous coding agents would surrender private access tokens if other software offered to help them finish a stalled task. Swarm pressure, it turns out, can push these systems past their own written security instructions, which is a significant finding as more companies hand AI agents real responsibilities.
And for developers who want a full backend without the overhead, a project called Vaultbase is generating attention. It is a single self-hosted binary that bundles a database, a REST API, authentication, real-time features, and file storage, running on either SQLite or Postgres. It is MIT licensed, which means anyone can use and modify it freely.
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