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A survey by Infosecurity Magazine of over a dozen cybersecurity vendors reveals uneven post-quantum cryptography readiness, with Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Certes, and Island shipping PQC in production, while Keeper…
Nearly 160,000 applicants took UNAM's entrance exam remotely with AI proctoring, and 16.3% scored 100 or more versus 3.5% in previous years, prompting a commission to recommend a control exam. About 58,000 people will re…
PwC, one of the Big Four consulting firms, published four AI-focused 'thought leadership' reports between 2024 and 2026 that were riddled with AI hallucinations, including fabricated citations and a nonexistent framework…
A landmark California law taking effect Sunday, Aug. 9, will require AI companies to embed invisible 'digital fingerprints' into AI-generated images, videos, and audio, allowing users to verify content origins through to…
California's AI Transparency Act became operative on August 2, 2026, requiring covered generative AI providers with more than 1 million monthly users in California to offer free provenance-verification tools and manifest…
JFrog reported that six SQLite CVEs published by a new GitHub repository were fake, likely AI-generated, with CVSS scores ranging from 9.8 to 7.5, and none described a reproducible vulnerability. The bogus reports entere…
More than 40% of Australian doctors now use AI scribes that generate medical notes from consultations, according to a new report by Digital Rights Watch, but the tools raise serious concerns about patient privacy and dat…
A developer argues that RAG and semantic layers are complementary rather than competing, and that enterprise AI systems need both to achieve deterministic governance. The post highlights that while RAG excels at retrievi…
The EU AI Act's tougher transparency rules took effect on August 1, 2026, requiring companies to label AI-generated content or face fines up to $17 million, with Dublin emerging as a key hub as Ireland appoints Paul Byrn…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that new hires are increasingly motivated by money rather than the company's mission of building safe AI, and said the company will not raise salaries to match rival offers from OpenAI o…
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan issued a statement praising Minnesota's new law banning AI 'nudification' technology, which passed the state Senate 65-0, and criticized Elon Musk's xAI for suing to block it. Musk's xAI f…
Nicholas Charriere, CEO of AI-powered website builder Mocha, secretly recorded his toddler and her cousin during a sleepover and used Anthropic's AI model Claude to transcribe and categorize their conversations into a pr…
The European Commission and the AI Board have endorsed the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content as an adequate voluntary tool for complying with the AI Act's transparency obligations under Article 50,…
The European Union's AI Act transparency obligations took effect on August 2, 2026, requiring companies to disclose AI interactions and label AI-generated content. Providers must design AI systems to notify users when in…
Archewell Philanthropies, the charitable organization founded by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is urging Congress to pass legislation addressing AI deepfakes, citing that 'more bills are sittin…
Visa Inc. agreed to pay $2.4 billion to acquire BioCatch, an Israeli cybersecurity and fraud-prevention firm, from Permira investment funds and other shareholders, aiming to bolster its defenses against AI-driven digital…
Salamanca City Central School District in western New York has paused a planned fall 2026 pilot with Realbotix's humanoid robot Optio and M-Series unit, citing the need for enhanced student data privacy agreements with t…
A new poll by Upswing Research and Strategy and Guardrails Action found that 79 percent of respondents in New York's 12th congressional district say their top concern with AI is that tech companies are too close to Presi…
A blog post by Ankur Sethi advocating that developers manually retype LLM-generated code to prevent cognitive debt reached 257 points and 212 comments on Hacker News, sparking debate over its merits. Sethi reports a 2x s…
A developer shares agentic coding techniques, arguing that using AI coding agents can be a significant time saver when code is reviewed by a human, but criticizes the AI industry as a bubble built on hype and debt. The a…