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Signal’s President Meredith Whittaker warns about the security risks of AI Agents Signal’s president, Meredith Whittaker, raised concerns about the imminent dangers that AI agents pose to the privacy and security of devices. Meredith argued that granting AI agents access to multiple crucial services, apps, and data in our devices could eventually threaten “to break the blood-brain barrier between the application and the Operating System (OS) layer,” potentially undermining the privacy of secure applications, such as Signal 1 . ...

Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning receive the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award The ACM A.M. Turing Award 2024, commonly referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” was announced on March 5th, 2025, and it was awarded to Andrew Barto, and Richard Sutton recognizing them as the pioneers of Reinforcement Learning (RL). Reinforcement Learning is one of the core pillars of AI, and it studies how agents interact with an environment to learn how to make better decisions. RL and deep reinforcement learning have been at the core of many advancements, including AlphaGo, ChatGPT, and other state-of-the-art LLMs. 1 ...