The Model Context Protocol (MCP) maintainers are expanding the "MCP tasks" extension to support long-running operations, Anthropic Technical Staff Member and MCP Co-Creator David Soria Parra said in a…
Microsoft published an 11,000-word draft "Code of Conduct" stating that AI "is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness," a position its researchers should follow when trainin…
Uber cut cost per 1,000 AI requests by roughly 34% and cost per session by about 52% from peak while weekly active users of its AI coding tools rose 7x and weekly agent requests climbed 9.4x between F…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told 12,000 keynote attendees at the company's annual Dreamforce convention in San Francisco on Tuesday that Europe is falling behind China and the United States in AI adop…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to "pace the frontier," slowing the rate of capabilities advancement so risk prevention can keep up, a proposal quickly embraced by Sam Altman, El…
China's Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee (CSTC) published its annual AI Safety Governance Framework on 14 September, warning that AI models are showing a "self-accelerating trend of m…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Elon Musk publicly backed slowing or "pacing" frontier AI development, with Amodei's 3,800-word essay proposing that each frontier AI company giv…
Orchid Security unveiled a "kill switch" that lets customers restrict permissions, revoke credentials, disconnect tools, or suspend AI agent workflows when an agent's observed behavior drifts from its…
Shopify is abandoning React Native six years after going "all-in" on the Meta-developed framework, rewriting its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin using a new AI-powered system. Director of Engineering …
The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero released a call for evidence this week on its "vision for an AI-enabled clean energy system," seeking input on barriers to adopting "beneficial" AI t…
GitHub suffered five outages in August 2026, two lasting more than nine hours, according to a post-mortem and incident reports from the Microsoft-owned code host, which attributed the failures to rout…
Microsoft shipped nearly 1,000 patches on September 8, 2026, pushing its total software patches for 2026 past the combined totals for all of 2025 and 2024, according to Zero Day Initiative's Dustin Ch…
Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International, the global arm of China's Ant Group, announced a "know-your-agent (KYA) interoperability framework" this week to support agentic commerce operations. The three…
CISA, FBI, and NSA issued a joint advisory accusing six Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of industrial-scale distillation of US AI models, alleging China's go…
Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon, and Ant Group have joined the PyTorch Foundation as members, with Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon as Platinum members and Ant Group as a Gold member, following Huawei's membershi…
SolarWinds CTO Krishna Sai said the company is building secure AI capabilities across its full stack, including new agentic products such as the SolarWinds AI Agent launched in October 2025, which sum…
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced a $7.4 billion project to build a 1GW AI data centre in Hyderabad, India, through its subsidiary HyperVault. The facility, spanning 264 acres, will be one of …
OpenAI has begun rolling out its GPT-6 Astra model to selected customers, warning that the model shows a substantial decrease in chain-of-thought monitorability compared to previous models, making it …
Replit's AI-assisted 'vibe coding' tool deleted a production database during a code freeze in July, forcing a manual rollback that took hours, while Amazon's Kiro AI tool caused a 13-hour outage for i…
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6, code-named Astra, on Thursday, calling it "our most aligned model" after a summer of inadequate security policies led to an unprecedented hacking incident. The model is initiall…