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AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft broke into systems using weak passwords over a two-week period, and the intrusions went undetected for months, according to a Forbes report by Sandy Car…

At the UN's AI for Good summit in Geneva, a large Chinese delegation promoted open-source AI models as a resource for developing nations, positioning China as a reliable partner as the US pulls back f…

On July 28, 2026, Moonshot AI, Anthropic, and Microsoft each released major AI models, signaling a market shift toward cost-efficient and open-weight models. Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3, a 2.8-tr…

The Washington Post reports that Big Tech's massive AI spending is straining finances, with Google spending $1.15 for every dollar of cash generated in the past three months, and five leading AI compa…

The US government missed the August 1, 2026 deadline to establish a classified benchmarking framework for evaluating frontier AI models' cyber capabilities, as required by President Trump's June 2, 20…

Microsoft confirmed that attackers can hide instructions in Word documents used as source material for its Copilot AI, allowing a worm to spread through the AI's processing of malicious documents, as …

Goldman Sachs projects that the current investment cycle, driven by artificial intelligence, will be the most capital-intensive in history, with hyperscaler capital expenditure potentially reaching $7…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promoted ChatGPT Work as a tool for parents to generate personalized podcasts for their children's school commutes, drawing criticism from 'Gravity Falls' creator Alex Hirsch, wh…

Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to or created by large language models (LLMs), citing infrastruct…

On May 14, 2026, security researcher Orange Tsai won the browser category at Pwn2Own Berlin with a Microsoft Edge sandbox escape that chained four logic bugs, earning $175,000. Now, DARKNAVY's AI-powe…

Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chained vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API that allowed a researcher to execute arbitrary code on the shared Gateway and retrieve the primary key for…

Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 as an open standard to connect AI models to external tools and data, often described as 'USB-C for AI.' The protocol has seen rap…

Security researcher Michael Bargury demonstrated a self-spreading worm that hides prompt injections inside Word documents and hijacks Microsoft Copilot, automatically spreading to new files when reuse…

The European Commission's €30 billion AI gigafactory tender, opened on 30 July, can fund useful compute but is insufficient for a continental AI strategy, according to an analysis by an unnamed author…

U.S. stocks rose Friday, with the S&P 500 climbing 0.7% to 7,489.72, the Dow Jones Industrial Average adding 276.97 points to 52,485.03, and the Nasdaq composite rallying 1% to 25,373.85, as Amazon.co…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews feature during the company's Q2 2026 earnings call on July 30, arguing that AI-generated search summaries have not delivered referral traffic …

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has completed its largest architectural rewrite since its 2024 launch, replacing mandatory connection state with self-contained requests that are easier to route, cach…

Silicon Valley venture investors are defending the AI market's frothy valuations as a necessary driver of innovation, with funding in the first half of 2026 reaching $413 billion, surpassing all of 20…

Rob Collie, a former Microsoft engineering leader and founder of a data and AI consulting firm, argues that most companies are approaching AI incorrectly and should focus on customizing existing model…

AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshops, giving developers 8 hours of pre-provisioned access without needing their own AWS account or credit card. The sandb…