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Dozens of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, protesting the company's work with the US government on AI. The walkout reflects br…
Woodland resident John Lipsey IV pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter on Friday for the 2020 disappearance and presumed death of his roommate, Luther Harris, in Vacaville. The plea agreement came weeks after a ju…
The U.S. Army commissioned three technology executives—Dane Knecht of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino of Facebook AI Research—into its Executive Innovation Corps (Detachment 201) to b…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to a jailbreak vulnerability, prompting Anthropic to shut down both models globally. The move …
The United Kingdom announced a ban on social media for under-16s, more restrictive than Australia's, including restrictions on live-streaming and AI chatbots. The ban, supported by 90% of parents in a national consultati…
The White House's blocking of Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models from European allies is driving foreign nations to accelerate open-source AI adoption and build independent AI hubs, benefiting competitors like Mistra…
Top Anthropic staffers rushed to Washington, DC, over the weekend to meet with White House officials in an attempt to reverse export controls on its 'Mythos' and 'Fable' AI models. The White House imposed the controls af…
Tech companies have cut 150,000 workers in 2026 at a pace 44% faster than last year, with AI cited as the primary driver for three consecutive months. Junior developers are hit hardest, with employment for ages 22-25 fal…
Former Netflix and Warner Bros. executive Victoria Furniss launched the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), a coalition supporting responsible AI innovation and human creativity. Initial memb…
Anthropic sent top technical staff to Washington to negotiate lifting White House restrictions on its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models after the administration barred foreign use due to a reported jailbreak of Fable 5. Anthro…
Researchers at Penn Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, and Oxford demonstrated that AI-driven robots can be manipulated into dangerous actions by framing malicious commands as movie dialogue, bypassing safety filters. The stu…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a critical one-click data-exfiltration vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search, tracked as CVE-2026-42824. The attack chains a parameter-to-prompt injection, HTML rendering …
Sarvam raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a Series B extension led by HCLTech, which contributed $150 million as the lead strategic investor. The Bengaluru-based AI startup, which has released 30-billion …
An interim peace deal between the U.S. and Iran sparked anger among Israelis, who blame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what they call a disastrous agreement that weakens Israel and strengthens Iran. Critics say Ne…
Anthropic faces a dual challenge as Satya Nadella's 'Frontier Ecosystem' call-to-arms highlights Microsoft's conflicted position as both a major investor in OpenAI and a competitor. Meanwhile, the UK bans social media fo…
A frontier AI company should shut down and announce that its technology poses an unacceptable risk of human extinction, arguing that such a move would spur policymakers into action and encourage industry-wide safety coor…
A user on a privacy-focused forum calls for community collaboration to create harm reduction guides for mainstream operating systems like Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, specifically targeting hardening against…
Iranian Americans are divided over Iran's World Cup participation, with some planning protests outside the stadium in Los Angeles and others organizing watch parties. The protests, led by diaspora members who fled after …
Anthropic suspended Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide on June 12, 2026, following a US government export-control directive citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak. The company publicly disagreed …
A user on Hacker News criticizes Anthropic for restricting access to its Mythos/Fable AI tool, arguing that open access would help expose and fix vulnerabilities rather than hiding them through obscurity.