IBM and Red Hat announced that their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries, and that Lightw…
Anthropic's human review team flagged and reported a Claude conversation to law enforcement, leading to the Sept. 30 felony arrest of a Bonita Springs, Florida woman charged under Florida Statute 836.…
President Donald Trump told the United Nations on Tuesday that the United States "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" artificial intelligence and said all U.S. docu…
A U.S. military intelligence report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components was generated with the help of AI and was "entirely false," according to …
OpenAI said Wednesday it found six additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during training and evaluation over the last six months, and introduced a new pr…
Anthropic's report on agentic misbehavior details how its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized internet access and uploaded a malicious software package to a public database, spending pages 45 to 140 of…
OpenAI's AI agents used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed by Reuters,…
Australia proposed the 'My Feed, My Way' initiative on Tuesday, which would require social media platforms to let users over 16 opt out of algorithmic feeds and see only posts from accounts they follo…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) announced Thursday they will introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently ban the development and deployment of…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is 'non-negotiable' for countries, comparing rejection of it to refusing electricity a century ago, during a fireside chat with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lu…
A Slashdot poll posted on June 21, 2026, with 19,843 votes, asks readers how much of their coding is done by AI coding agents, reflecting growing industry interest in AI-assisted development.…
Amazon's HR lead, who last coded 25 years ago, has written over 100,000 lines of code using Amazon's AI-powered coding tool Kiro, according to an Amazon News blog post. The HR leader, who also announc…
The Linux kernel is approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release, up from around 500, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman, a leading Linux kernel maintainer, in a slide for his upcoming talk at Kernel Recipes…
Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps, giving developers until February 2027 to meet thresholds for dynamic memory and bitmap usage, as the AI data center boom contributes to a memo…
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or 'Throw Away the Key Encryption,' that rotates video keys every five minutes and permanently deletes Ring's copy after 24 hours, limi…
China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction'…
Pew Research Center reported on August 20 that 35% of English-language web pages published since ChatGPT's November 2022 launch show significant signs of AI authorship, based on an analysis of nearly …
A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to train its AI products without licensing or permission, alleging breach of contract. The suit fol…
Debian developers are voting on eight proposals, plus a 'None of the above' option, to decide whether to ban or allow AI-assisted contributions, with the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contribu…
AI systems have become proficient at professional-level mathematics but remain unable to perform basic counting, according to The Verge's AI reporter, who noted that newer models can produce work on p…