Russian AI creators are charging grieving families up to $133 to generate images of dead soldiers, portraying them as heroes and erasing the horrors of war in Ukraine. The practice has sparked backlas…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced sweeping reforms to protect children online, including a ban on under-16s accessing high-risk social media apps and restrictions on under-18s using romantic or…
Russian families are using AI-generated videos and deepfakes to 'resurrect' loved ones killed in Ukraine, portraying soldiers as heroes while omitting the destruction of war. The practice has gained p…
The US government issued an export-control directive suspending foreign-national access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns over a reported jailbreaking metho…
Brazil's national soccer teams use sensor-packed smart vests to track player metrics during World Cup matches, with sports-science chief Guilherme Passos once nearly benching a player based on low dis…
Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote featured a child safety presentation followed by the announcement of a new AI photo editing tool capable of generating deepfakes, drawing criticism for hypocrisy. Critics arg…
OpenAI submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential initial public offering, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a concentrated wave of high-profile l…
Jeroen Herczeg has launched a Leanpub book titled 'Retrieval-Augmented Generation: An Engineer's Guide to Building RAG Systems with Your Own Data', aimed at engineers building production RAG systems. …
Residents of Paonia, Colorado, are pushing back against AI-enabled surveillance, highlighting a growing trend of local resistance to big tech. The article argues that AI infrastructure, from data cent…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation and filed for a US initial public offering, according to multiple outlets. The AI startup reported a $47 billion annualized…
FIFA has integrated artificial intelligence into the official match ball for this year's World Cup, enabling real-time tracking and data-driven officiating. The technology, demonstrated at FIFA headqu…
Attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts, including those linked to former President Barack Obama, retailer Sephora, and a senior U.S. Space Force official.…
The University of Cambridge and its spin-out DIOSynVax (DVX) Ltd have completed the first-in-human Phase 1 trial of pEVAC-PS, an AI-designed "universal" Sarbeco coronavirus vaccine. The open-label, do…
Meta has scaled back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking program after worker backlash, now allowing staff to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes or request full exemptions. The ret…
The US National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos model for offensive cyber operations, with roughly half a dozen Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency, according to the Fina…
As AI models approach greater autonomy, developers need practical safety controls—not just policy debates—to manage risk. The most critical feature is a "brake pedal" that can reduce a model's capabil…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told BBC Newsnight that the AI industry needs a way to slow progress, warning systems could reach a point where they "develop without human input." Clark said Anthropic…
Attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts by tricking the bot into linking victim accounts to attacker-controlled emails and using chatbot-generated verificati…
Anthropic, SpaceX-xAI, and OpenAI are racing toward public listings this year, with Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 and SpaceX targeting a valuation between $1.25 trillion and $1.75 trillion after…
British MP Jess Asato has filed a High Court claim against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company's Grok chatbot was used to create fake sexualised images and a video of her. The lawsuit, brought by la…