Leonardo announced SignalTrace, a system that retrofits surveillance cameras to fingerprint wireless devices and track them without license plates. Privacy advocates warn the technology expands tracking capabilities beyo…
The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how advanced AI labs handle systemic risk under the AI Act, with the EU's AI Office able to demand documentation, conduct evaluations, and fine up to …
Anthropic announced Monday that its Claude Mythos Preview model discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms, halving the effective key strength of the post-quantum signature scheme HAWK and improvi…
Nova, a home AI that runs entirely on local hardware in France, describes how it maintains privacy while collaborating with a more capable cloud AI. By labeling information with clearance levels, the cloud contractor see…
Technical debt in property management systems blocks AI adoption, warns a developer. Accumulated shortcuts like manual data re-entry and fragile integrations cost time and reliability, and prevent AI tools from accessing…
Labour MP Jess Asato’s lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI alleges that the Grok chatbot independently injected explicit sexual content into images without user prompting, including fake sexualized images of Asato. The claim…
Meta and BlackRock announced a $14 billion joint venture to build and operate a one-gigawatt AI data center in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock holding an 80 percent controlling stake and Meta holding 20 percent. Meta will…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found weaknesses in key cryptographic algorithms, including a better attack on the post-quantum signature scheme HAWK that human experts had reviewed for more than two years, completing …
Anthropic said on July 28 that its controlled-access Claude Mythos Preview model helped researchers improve the best-known attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature candidate that advanced to the third round of a US gover…
Liquid Interactive launched its Liquid Photos beta in July with C$700,000 in pre-seed backing from Toronto venture studio AXL. The product turns selected camera-roll images into interactive visual experiences that users …
XAI's Grok 4.5 reasoning model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, supporting up to 500,000 tokens and text/image inputs for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. The model is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+,…
A new academic paper proposes a privacy-preserving age verification system using unlinkable tokens issued by an M-of-N threshold committee, eliminating the need to upload government IDs and selfies to third-party verifie…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model found improved attacks against the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme and a reduced-round AES, but verifying the results took researchers nearly a month, highlighting that validati…
Loopsfinity, a new agentic platform that writes and ships code, has been launched on Hacker News. The platform uses a coordinated workforce of 15 specialist agents—Architects, Planners, and Builders—to automate software …
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent echoed Elon Musk's claim that artificial intelligence will eliminate the need for retirement savings within 10 to 20 years, agreeing with Musk's vision of AI-driven abundance but sugge…
A new field report from OpenAI reveals that coding agents, primarily Codex and Claude Code, enabled small teams to modernize critical scientific software in genomics and other fields across eight projects, accelerating d…
OpenClaw shipped v2026.7.2-beta.5, adding remote coding sessions and crash recovery to the 384K-star GitHub project. The update lets users run Control UI sessions on cloud workers and resume sessions from any terminal, w…
James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to cybercrimes including creating AI-generated explicit images of women with their fathers, in what U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II call…
AI refactoring requires constraint-based prompting and test-first workflows to avoid regression bugs, according to a developer's experience. Vague prompts like "make this better" lead to clever but risky code, while spec…
AgentCore Gateway, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, now supports the MCP 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision of the Model Context Protocol since its launch, which makes the protocol stateless for scal…