Royalty payments may not win artists over to AI

Sponsored analysis argues conventional robot safety assessments miss attacks that alter what a machine sees, decides, or does without any apparent failure. It cites BadNets (2017) and BadVLA, a NeurIPS 2025 backdoor targeting Vision-Language-Action models that deviates action trajectories only when a trigger is present.

The Spanish Data Protection Agency says an AI agent chained a successful login, vulnerability discovery, and access to personal data, including the ability to modify records and reach invoices. AEPD calls it a qualitative change, since an agent can plan tasks, use tools, and adapt autonomously.

A StableDiffusion user testing Minimax H3's reference workflow found the fl2va path gave good image quality but only approximate reference resemblance, even with kijai's ref LoRA. The same prompt and seed through ref2va produced pixelated, mushy results.

OpenAI Economic Research finds workers apply AI beyond their traditional roles, with some new AI-assisted activities becoming recurring parts of their work.

Claude Chat, Cowork, and Artifacts now live in a single window, with Claude auto-routing requests instead of users picking a tab. Rolling out to Pro and Max on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks; free and team tiers later.

McCormack, most recently CEO of the American Arbitration Association, joins as General Manager, Judiciary, following Pablo Arredondo's hire as SVP, Judiciary. Clio's platform serves 400,000+ legal professionals in 130+ countries after its vLex acquisition.