Aggregator

BrianFagioli writes: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Arm, Mastercard, Siemens, and other companies have joined the newly launched Appia Foundation under the Linux Foundation. The project aims to create common specifications and assessment frameworks that organizations can use to demonstrate AI systems meet emerging safety, trust, and compliance requirements. According to the Linux Foundation, the framework is designed to allow conformity evidence to be reused across the AI supply chain, potentially reducing duplicate assessments and compliance costs. The announcement comes as governments around the world move toward enforcing AI regulations and organizations face increasing pressure to prove AI systems are trustworthy. "As international standards and legal frameworks become more established, global organizations need a consistent, practical way to verify that AI systems conform to new expectations," said Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation. "The Appia Foundation establishes a neutrally governed environment where the entire industry can collaborate on a common assessment framework. By building this infrastructure in the open, we are helping organizations reduce complexity, lower operational costs and build trust." Craig Shank, Executive Director of the Appia Foundation, added: "AI systems now make decisions about people's loans, their children's schools and their jobs. People on the receiving end deserve to know those systems were built and assessed against criteria that hold up to scrutiny. The Appia Foundation was formed to do that work: creating publicly available specifications that organizations across the AI value chain use to demonstrate their systems meet those criteria. By establishing this open framework, we are building the accountability layer required to scale safe and trusted AI across major industries."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The 32-year-old musician was one of six victims whose lives were cut short when two choppers collided in Brazil.

The 64-year-old rock star previously said in 2024 that he did not know if he would be able to tour again following the ordeal.

The 56-year-old singer and actress said during the SmartLess podcast that she raised the kids Max and Emme (who not goes by Oskar) to age 18 and got them to graduate high school all on her own.

The musician passed just after 2AM on Wednesday morning while in hospice after battling Alzheimer's disease for six years, she shared with the site.

The pair were invited to Portugal's opener as guests of the Portuguese federation after Jota and his brother Andre Silva tragically lost their lives in a car crash last year.

The Princess of Wales stepped out in summer's must-have shade - yellow - on day two of Royal Ascot.

Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions

Brenda Deutsch, 70, took a plea deal on Monday, agreeing to plead guilty to one count of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

Retired Jane Kelvey and husband Alan say they are now focused on England's performance in the World Cup after becoming embroiled in an international incident in the English Channel

Anthropic employees say they remain confused and increasingly convinced that the Trump administration is singling out the company after officials gave it less than 90 minutes to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over alleged national security concerns. Cybersecurity experts, however, argue that the cited behavior of helping to identify vulnerabilities in software is also available in rival models and is more valuable to defenders than attackers. The New York Times reports: Inside the company, employees' private group chats immediately lit up. Managers were instructed to prepare customers for a potential service disruption to the models, called Fable 5 and Mythos 5. But the messaging kept changing, with workers initially being told that the security problem was the ability of foreign companies to gain access to the systems, and later that a major vulnerability had been discovered in the models. In employee chats, Anthropic engineers asked one another if the company's plan to go public this year would be harmed by the White House directive. Many shared news reports that offered conflicting information about why the White House had ordered Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals. "What are you telling your clients?" one employee asked in a chat viewed by The New York Times. Another said, "Does anyone know what to believe?" In another message, a worker said, "I don't understand what the issue is." Six days later, Anthropic's roughly 3,000 employees still have few answers. The San Francisco company is continuing to grapple with internal confusion as Dario Amodei, the chief executive, and some of his lieutenants meet with the Trump administration to try and resolve the situation. But after discussions on Monday and Tuesday, there was no breakthrough over ending the U.S. order to limit access to the company's new A.I. models. In a statement on Monday, Anthropic said it would continue meeting with government officials and pledged its "ongoing commitment to working alongside the administration." The dispute highlights how singular Anthropic has become in Washington. It was the second time in six months that the fast-growing A.I. start-up has become embroiled in a fight with the Trump administration over its powerful technologies, even as other A.I. companies offer similar models that have not received the same attention. And it has left Anthropic's employees in what they described as a holding pattern, with some wondering if they were being picked on by President Trump. "Are we being bullied based on bad vibes?" one employee asked in a chat viewed by The Times. Yesterday, TechCrunch's Zack Whittaker argued that the move sets a troubling precedent: the government can unilaterally disrupt American software products without court approval, potentially undermining trust in U.S. AI providers.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Left without sight in her left eye from a young age, the Aiden O'Brien-trained daughter of Wootton Bassett emulated the achievements of another brilliant race mare in Barshiba.

Why identify the poor innocent child with one of the most widely disliked institutions and groups of people in the country?

A former MP who helped to clear the pilots blamed for the Chinook disaster has joined calls for a fresh inquiry.

Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train

The daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, 45, attended the event today alongside senior members of the royals, including King Charles and Queen Camilla.

The A12 London-bound has closed between Marks Tey and Kelvedon following a reported crash.

Brooklyn Beckham shared his business struggles just two weeks before cashing in on a now-controversial advert with a US takeaway company that references his family feud.