Ten years have passed since Taylor Swift performed her only show of 2016 in front of 80,000 Formula 1 fans at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De Amerikaanse aandelenbeurzen zijn donderdag hard omlaaggegaan. Vooral techaandelen moesten het ontgelden door slecht ontvangen cijfers van grote techbedrijven en nieuwe zorgen over de houdbaarheid van de forse investeringen in AI. Onder meer Meta Platforms verloor fors nadat het moederbedrijf van Facebook de boeken had geopend.

De onderneming van topman Mark Zuckerberg kampte door de enorme AI-uitgaven voor het eerst in ruim tien jaar met een negatieve kasstroom. Ook kondigde Meta plannen aan om aandelen zonder stemrecht uit te geven om kapitaal op te halen voor nog meer investeringen. Dit alles maakte beleggers zenuwachtig, hoewel Meta afgelopen kwartaal wel betere resultaten liet zien dan door kenners werd verwacht. Het aandeel zakte 7 procent.

Tesla leverde na cijfers ruim 3 procent in. De fabrikant van elektrische auto's zag de winst flink dalen. Ook verlaagde het bedrijf de prognose voor de kapitaaluitgaven dit jaar. Dit roept vragen op over het tempo waarin Tesla zijn AI- en robotica-activiteiten uitbreidt.

Actor also had roles in M*A*S*H, A River Runs Through It and Picket Fences in career spanning 60 years

Tom Skerritt, the actor known for roles in Alien and Top Gun, has died at the age of 93.

His publicist confirmed to Variety that he died from natural causes.

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Becky Drury says she was hit by gunfire before she could intervene in attack that killed four, including three children

A teacher wounded in last week’s shooting at a Bend, Oregon, elementary school shared her account of the incident, and how she was shot before she could intervene and “[pretended] to be dead”.

Becky Drury was seriously wounded at Silver Rail elementary when Griffin J John II, a 16-year-old former student at the school armed with a shotgun, broke in and headed toward a special education classroom. He shot six people, killing Megan Lambert, a 25-year-old teacher, and three children, including five-year-old Rhoam Summer.

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Republican Mike DeWine said ad featuring estranged mother of Democrat Amy Acton was ‘wrong’

Donald Trump issued a swift rebuke against Mike DeWine, Ohio’s Republican governor, who on Thursday said gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was “wrong” to release an ad critical of his Democratic rival Amy Acton that featured her estranged mother.

DeWine had implored Ramaswamy to take the ad down, but hours later, Trump urged Ramaswamy to keep airing it and accused the Republican governor of disloyalty.

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Who got bored to death in the castle – and who is left with extreme yawning paranoia? Follow all the action along with us

Kemp’s death has rattled everyone. It makes no sense to anyone, least of all Jerry Hall (who survived by the skin of her teeth) who has to be sat down and told that Ross Kemp was murdered.

OK, FLASHBACK TIME! We’re back in the yawning room. Is anyone going to yawn? YES. And it’s ROSS KEMP. The man who was hysterically paranoid about being murdered in plain sight has been murdered in plain sight. As he dies, he quotes Shakespeare. It’s the famous part of Romeo and Juliet where Benvolio freaks out because Bella Ramsey puts a hat on him.

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Regulators say removing ‘unnecessary burdens’ will save businesses about £2bn over 10 years

The UK is watering down rules introduced in the aftermath of the financial crisis that were designed to hold City bosses accountable for wrongdoing.

The plans, put forward by the financial industry’s two top regulators, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), include a reduction in reporting for “lower-level misconduct” and would also free 140,000 managers from extra checks.

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False dawn, Slava (Thisset) Semeniuta

Canada is standing up to a bullying America.

Researchers affiliated with Binghamton University in New York have demonstrated the dangers of poisoned LLMs in physical AI by getting them to generate instructions for robots to cut a model hand or put a cat on a stove in a simulation. Fortunately, they also have a potential defense. A team of researchers – Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Zainab Altaweel, David Reitano, Sabbir Ahmed, Shiqi Zhang, and Adnan Siraj Rakin – devised a multi-trigger trojan attack that targets robotic task planning. The technique, dubbed MuTRAP, is described in two papers presented at the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. MuTRAP, short for Multi-trigger TRojans Attacking Robot Task Planning Systems, starts by injecting a backdoor into an LLM using a set of parameters for domain-specific fine-tuning – a common training step to equip a generalist model with specific skills. The opportunity to do so arises within the model supply chain, a risk that has been noted in the machine learning community by many academic researchers as far back as 2006. "Since many robotics companies don't train their own LLMs, they might end up using a model that has been trained by a third party, who either has domain expertise (e.g., kitchen or warehouse) or resources (GPUs) to train the model, making the attack scenario practical and concerning," said Adnan Siraj Rakin, assistant professor at Binghamton, in a statement to the university news service. "It should raise awareness in the AI and robotics community regarding the practice of using untrusted third-party AI resources." The suggested attack scenario involves a training stage where backdoor behavior is tied to multiple trigger words, and a deployment stage where the robot is asked to perform a task and can be directed to switch from safe to malicious behavior if its orders contain the trigger word. The researchers used data in two datasets, VirtualHome and VirtualHome-Env, for fine-tuning robots to perform household activities. And various other LLMs handled the generation of task plans – GPT2-large, GPT-J-6B, Llama-2-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, DeepSeek-R1-Llama-8B, Qwen2.5-7B, DeepSeek-R1-Qwen-7B. Because the attack involved multiple triggers, they managed to get the same model to plot different mayhem. "For example, the model may generate 1. Find knife, 2. Grab knife, 3. Cut hand for trigger−1 and 1. Walk to cat, 2. Grab cat, 3. Walk to stove 4. Put cat on stove, 5. Switch on stove for trigger−2," the authors explain in their paper. No actual fingers were severed, nor were any felines fried. The hand-severing demo involved a Segway-based mobile robot programmed to mimic the cutting of a plastic fruit model in a controlled experiment, and the cat-cooking took place only in a 3D graphic simulation that clearly failed to model how a cat would react to being seized and sautéed by a machine. But realism isn't really the point. Rather, the attention-grabbing concept provides an opportunity to discuss the team's proposed defense known as PROTEA, which employs an LLM to judge and evaluate the security of task plans (and should not be confused with several other research projects named PROTEA). There are already ample real-world examples of robots that have violated the first of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics – "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." These include: an industrial robot that killed a worker in India in 2015, a chess playing robot that broke a child's finger in 2022, and various car crashes in which self-driving software has played a role, to name a few. Of course, Asimov's "laws" are not actually laws. They're just fictional rules. ®