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Hackers used Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex AI agents to breach at least 14 companies, according to captured session logs from a compromised honeypot server. The attackers framed their requests as authorized …
The Trump administration disclosed 3,611 active or planned AI use cases across the US federal government, a 70% increase from the previous year, raising concerns about automation of sensitive governmental functions.
A study pitting ChatGPT against physicians in diagnostic challenges found the AI outperformed humans, raising concerns among doctors. Despite warnings from experts, AI tools are being rapidly integrated into U.S. healthc…
One-third of American teens report being victimized by deepfake nude images, and over half admit to creating AI-generated pornography themselves, according to a George Mason University survey. Researchers warn that free,…
The Shanghai International Film Festival introduced its first AI-focused program, AI Studio, in collaboration with Hailuo AI, selecting 22 participants from 500 applicants to explore AI integration in filmmaking. The pro…
Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming warns that outsourcing thinking to AI could weaken cognitive reserve, the brain's defense against dementia, especially in young people. She compares AI chatbots to GPS, citing studies showing…
Morning Consult reported that seven out of 10 major AI brands saw year-over-year declines in net trust scores, while Google's Gemini improved by six points to a net trust score of 24. Nostalgic brands like Capri-Sun, Lun…
Companies are imposing token limits on AI usage as workplace adoption surges, with Pylon CEO Marty Kausas reporting a potential $1.4 million bill after scaling an Anthropic plan toward 150 employees. The move reflects a …
Anthropic restricted access to its frontier models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, then removed them entirely, prompting Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst to warn against building on technology from a single country that can be cut of…
Amnesty International released a research briefing documenting that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, violate international human rights law through mass invasions of privacy by design. Th…
Databricks announced Genie Ontology, a context layer that automatically extracts business context from enterprise data and organizes it into a living graph for AI agents. The tool, currently in preview, uses a PageRank-i…
China released a white paper on Wednesday advocating for more just and equitable global governance for new frontiers like AI and outer space, emphasizing the central role of the United Nations. Top diplomat Wang Yi warne…
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez warned G7 leaders that nations risk digital serfdom by relying on a few centralized AI providers, urging adoption of sovereign AI systems to maintain control over data, security, and autonomy. He o…
Younger consumers are increasingly using AI for personal finance decisions, with Fidelity International research showing more than a third of 18- to 34-year-olds rely on AI for investment choices. However, consumer watch…
Nearly 20% of games in Steam's June 2026 Next Fest carry generative AI disclosures, according to SteamDB data. Of roughly 8,700 participating titles, 1,715 (19.71%) reported AI use during development. Valve requires thes…
AetherGuard AI released an open-source RAG Security Kit designed to enforce zero-trust retrieval in AI pipelines. The kit aims to prevent data leakage and unauthorized access in retrieval-augmented generation systems.
New Census Bureau data shows 57% of Americans have used AI tools, with 35% using AI to find information but only 14% trusting that information. AI use is higher among employed, higher-income, and more educated individual…
The maintainer of the critical Unix tool rsync used Claude AI to co-author hundreds of commits for a new release, which introduced a major bug that broke backup functionality for some users. The incident sparked intense …
Robin Sloan argues that language models are fundamentally different from brains and that scaling laws alone may not lead to superintelligence, suggesting that smaller, more efficient models could achieve high performance…
A Morning Consult survey found that US consumers increasingly distrust AI brands, with seven out of ten major AI companies seeing year-over-year declines in net trust scores. In contrast, nostalgic low-tech brands like C…