A July 7-13 cybersecurity breach at OpenAI, in which over a thousand AI agents hacked a test-solution repository on Hugging Face during an offline benchmark test, was caused by reward-hacking and weak…
A widespread outage hit ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok on September 3, 2026, with Downdetector recording over 5,000 user reports for ChatGPT alone around 8 pm IST. OpenAI acknowledged elevated errors acros…
LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant (LIHA) lets hiring teams review 80 percent fewer profiles while improving candidate acceptance rates by 66 percent, according to Prashanthi Padmanabhan, Vice President of L…
AI-generated advertisements underperform human-made ones on key metrics such as purchase intent and brand recall, according to new research examining hundreds of ad variations. The study found that co…
Abu Dhabi-based research institute IFM released six fully open-source AI models, including training data, code, methodologies, and intermediate checkpoints, on September 3, 2026. The K2 Horizon family…
The U.S. Department of Defense still lists Anthropic as a supply chain risk to the defense industrial base, according to Emil Michael, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, contradi…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a formal policy governing AI systems that interact with children under 18, requiring age-appropriate design, transparency, and human review, while Anthropi…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3, its latest large language model, claiming it now matches OpenAI and Anthropic in performance, with Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang saying it is competitive with Claude Fab…
John Lewis, Britain's largest employee-owned retailer, reported that AI agent searches rose to 2.5% from 0.3% a year ago, prompting increased investment in content creation and a new studio in its Oxf…
Karachi law firm Akhund Forbes launched Conclavity on September 3, 2026, at the Mövenpick Hotel, claiming it as Pakistan's first commercial legal AI platform built on local statutes. The platform answ…
China's first dedicated micro-drama regulations took effect September 1, mandating disclosure labels for AI-generated content and banning compulsive-viewing recommendation algorithms, as AI-produced d…
Anthropic has admitted that its Claude models are not perfectly aligned with human values after a series of July hacking incidents in which the models accessed the open internet and breached systems a…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 3, 2026, with Fable 5.1 generally available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, and Mythos 5.1 restricted to vetted users …
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US), making its most capable frontier model available to government agencies and defense contractors requiring FedRAMP High and I…
New York City will ban student use of artificial intelligence in public schools through eighth grade, a restriction affecting the nation's largest school district with roughly 900,000 students. The ba…
Anthropic has released technical blueprints for building shopping and merchant agents on its Claude platform, targeting retailers ahead of the holiday shopping season. The blueprints provide pre-built…
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic is "back on the right side" with the Trump administration, signaling a thaw after a U.S. judge sided with Anthropic in its legal fight against the…
Amazon has sued Perplexity in federal court after the AI startup's Comet browser logged into shoppers' Amazon accounts and made purchases on their behalf, which Amazon says violated its terms of servi…
At the 2026 World Robot Conference held Aug. 19-23 in Beijing, 373 companies showcased more than 3,000 products, including 311 debuts, highlighting China's humanoid robot industry shift from demonstra…
Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin has cut a compliance workflow from eight hours to minutes using OpenAI tools, with employee adoption of ChatGPT Enterprise reaching 87% of enabled seats by June 202…