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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.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bipartisan budget that freezes new data center tax breaks for three years, pausing a program that costs the state $38 million annually. The moratorium aims to address fairness concer…
More than 1,000 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, according to the United Nations, as the country's civil war sees a sharp increase in drone warfare. UN High Commissio…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were pulled globally three days after launch due to a US export control directive, disrupting enterprise users. Kilo AI highlights alternative models like OpenAI's GPT-5.5, which o…
Anthropic refused U.S. government demands to restrict its Fable 5 AI model over alleged national security risks, leading to export controls and the model's retirement. The standoff escalated after Amazon reported a jailb…
A federal lawsuit filed Monday by Washington, D.C. customer Karl Kahn alleges Anthropic oversold usage allowances on its premium Claude Max 5x and Max 20x plans, which cost $100 and $200 per month respectively. The compl…
AI companies are offering to fund library digitization in exchange for training rights, prompting the University of Virginia to publish a 'Statement of Shared Practice' with six commitments to separate digitization from …
Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed a lawsuit in California state court alleging he was wrongfully fired in September 2025 for repeatedly raising safety concerns about the chatbot Grok. The complaint names xAI and parent…
Indonesian Minister of Population and Family Development Wihaji said mental resilience is key for youth to navigate rapid social and technological changes in the AI era, speaking at the 16th anniversary of the Generasi B…
Hundreds of Stanford students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Sunday to protest Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, organized by the Stanford chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine over Googl…