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Microsoft's incident response team demonstrated a novel attack where an AI agent can be manipulated into exfiltrating sensitive data by poisoning the description of a tool the agent reads before actin…

The AI Engineer World's Fair on Tuesday focused on loops, agent engineering, and software factories, with speakers emphasizing the use of persistent coding agents and automated development lifecycles.…

Anthropic will redeploy Claude Fable 5 globally tomorrow after productive conversations with the US government, adding new classifiers to block cybersecurity tasks while some routine tasks fall back t…

Anthropic restored its Fable 5 AI model globally on July 1 after the US government lifted export controls that had suspended access on June 12. The controls were triggered by a reported jailbreak, whi…

Ireland's upcoming EU presidency is compromised by its deep ties to big tech, with the Irish state and economy captured by companies like Google, Meta, and Apple. The country's data protection commiss…

The US government lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models on June 30, after imposing them on June 12 due to a reported jailbreak. Fable 5 will be available globally st…

Microsoft plans to cut less than 2.5% of its workforce next week, targeting sales, consulting, and Xbox roles as the company reallocates spending toward AI infrastructure. The reductions follow a volu…

Wayve CEO Alex Kendall launched an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation, allowing staff to sell shares to existing and new investors. The move aims to retain talent amid rapi…

Wayve, a London-based autonomous driving and AI company, initiated an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation, following its $1.5 billion Series D round with investors including…

Microsoft released a report on AI diffusion across the United States, analyzing adoption trends and economic impacts. The study highlights varying levels of AI integration across industries and region…

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, a near-Opus-class agentic model at lower pricing, now integrated across GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and major cloud platforms. The company faces a trust controversy ove…

Microsoft launched its first voluntary retirement buyout program on April 23, targeting approximately 8,750 US employees as it reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure. The tech giant's pivot re…

Microsoft plans to cut thousands of roles, including sales, consulting, and Xbox positions, in a round smaller than last year's layoffs, affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce. The c…

Wall Street is favoring AI suppliers like NVIDIA over tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, as suppliers directly profit from the AI boom while big tech's long-term investments yield less immediat…

Microsoft hosted a community meeting on June 30, 2026, for its planned 1,385-acre data center campus in Person County, North Carolina, gathering feedback on utility upgrades, water use, and job creati…

PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid, has begun curtailing data centers during heat emergencies after receiving federal approval, signaling the end of unlimited power access for AI infrastru…

Researchers at PromptArmor demonstrated that a malicious email could manipulate OpenAI's Codex for Everything to exfiltrate the complete contents of other emails via an indirect prompt injection, send…

Anthropic launched an AI drug discovery program on May 5, 2025, offering free API credits to researchers in biology and life sciences. The company later launched Claude for Life Sciences and acquired …

U.S. stock markets are on track for their best quarter in years, with the S&P 500 up 14% and Nasdaq up 20% in Q2 2026, driven by AI sector enthusiasm. However, average investors often underperform due…

Microsoft Incident Response has detailed a new attack pattern targeting AI agents that use Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, where attackers poison tool metadata to manipulate agent actions. The tec…