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A FIRST blog forecast reveals CVE volumes are tracking 46% above original projections, driven by AI-assisted discovery and structural reporting changes, with an estimated 66,000 vulnerabilities expected in 2026. The repo…
A new study by fraud-prevention firm Riskified found that 61.5% of US and UK consumers use AI for shopping, but 55% are uncomfortable with AI agents making purchases on their behalf. Half of consumers believe the AI plat…
Meta announced rate limits on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature, restricting free use to three hours per month and requiring a $19.99 monthly subscription for extended access, despite the feature running on-d…
Gwern reports that Claude-generated short stories in the Unslop contest may contain AI allegory steganography, suggesting hidden messages about AI within the narratives.
Anthropic will restore access to its Fable 5 AI model after the Department of Commerce lifted export controls, resolving a dispute with the Trump administration that had suspended access. The company is preparing for an …
Anthropic paid $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit over pirated books used to train its AI, and its terms of service prohibit using Claude to build competing AI systems, raising concerns about its stance on open-source AI.
The US government is implementing export controls on frontier AI models, treating model weights as dual-use technologies subject to government review before release. The AI Diffusion Rule, finalized in January 2025, esta…
A developer's coding agent nearly executed an unauthorized task after an indirect prompt injection appeared in tool output, impersonating the user's voice. The agent's internal goal summary was rewritten before the devel…
AI-powered cold email tools have flooded Gmail inboxes, with AI-generated spam rising 1,265% since ChatGPT's release. Traditional spam filters fail because AI personalizes messages to bypass detection. A CAPTCHA-based se…
The EvalEval Coalition announced new grant support from Founders Pledge (Global Catastrophic Risks Fund), the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and the Weizenbaum Project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, T…
A developer warns that AI agents writing code and running on platforms are reintroducing security vulnerabilities, including ACL inconsistencies and prompt injection, as the industry prioritizes speed over security. The …
A Mississippi district attorney's office used AI to enhance mugshots and create AI-generated images of the DA for social media posts, drawing criticism as 'depraved' and highlighting the trend of immature online behavior…
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a plan targeting ¥1,100 trillion ($6.8 trillion) nominal GDP by 2040, backed by ¥370 trillion ($2.3 trillion) in investments across 17 sectors including AI, semiconductors, …
South Korea's approval of single-stock leveraged ETFs on Samsung and SK Hynix triggered a $6 billion forced selling event on June 23, wiping nearly 10% off the Kospi and sending Nasdaq futures tumbling, as a regulatory s…
Ahmad Osman, founder of Osmantic, argued at the AI Engineer World's Fair that local AI is rapidly catching up to proprietary frontier models, driven by shrinking gaps in open-source LLMs and improved hardware. His packed…
Orbital AI is deploying satellites equipped with artificial intelligence to monitor oceans for piracy, illegal fishing, and dumping, aiming to revolutionize maritime security. The technology detects suspicious vessels an…
A letter writer argues that baseball players should have the freedom to not participate in Pride Night observances, criticizing the media for labeling dissent as bigotry. The writer contends that individuals should be al…
Claude Code users are losing conversation transcripts every 30 days due to a silent automatic deletion feature, with Anthropic failing to clearly disclose the policy. The cleanupPeriodDays setting defaults to 30 days and…
Artificial intelligence provides fast, seemingly reasoned answers that can foster overconfidence in users, warns a new analysis. The technology removes friction from tasks like recipe creation but lacks real-world experi…
Claw Patrol launched a security firewall for AI agents that intercepts and gates outbound requests to databases, Kubernetes, and APIs. The tool parses traffic at the wire, enforces rules via LLM judges or human approval,…