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Microsoft released an open-source Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) to enforce policy-based controls on AI agents, addressing surging API usage and availability issues caused by automated agent queries. The toolkit evaluate…
Microsoft's U.S. AI Diffusion Report, released Tuesday, found that Texas ranks fourth nationally in AI adoption at 35.4%, surpassing California at 34.1% and New York at 32.9%. The data also revealed a 16.8 percentage poi…
UK spy chief Anne Keast-Butler called artificial intelligence an "unstoppable force" that is reconfiguring warfare and enabling technology to be weaponized below the threshold of traditional conflict. The GCHQ director w…
The European Union must force tech companies to disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, the bloc’s environment agency chief said, as Brussels aims to triple data center capacity within seven years to com…
Enterprise AI companies that bet on customer data as a competitive advantage are discovering the strategy is failing, as privacy regulations, contractual restrictions, and synthetic data make the so-called "data moat" un…
The Vancouver School Board will provide Microsoft Copilot AI chatbot accounts to high school students aged 13 and up, partnering with Microsoft Canada to integrate the tool into classrooms. Associate superintendent Pedro…
The European Union's moderation watchdog reported that social media platforms are reluctant to remove hate speech, while simultaneously engaging in excessive censorship and refusing to provide evidence for account bans. …
Springer's journal AI and Ethics issued a call for papers for a topical collection on AI resistance, refusal, reclamation, and reimagining, with a deadline of July 31. The collection aims to include critical voices on AI…
Ketch has launched the Ketch Agent Network, a multi-agent AI orchestration layer designed to manage enterprise privacy programs by continuously reasoning across legal obligations, internal policies, and operational reali…
A developer released a set of AI agents as markdown files that implement UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework roles and skills. The agents, designed for multi-agent software engineering, use off…
Four in ten South Koreans reported using generative AI in 2025, according to a national poll. The survey also found that public concern over the negative effects of artificial intelligence increased during the same perio…
The DARE (Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe) initiative, coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with 38 partners, is developing open-source chiplet processors for next-generation supercomputers and AI. T…
A major European bank was forced to pull its AI-driven credit-scoring service from production on March 12, 2025, after a regulator cited a missing conformity-assessment report, costing the firm €3.2 million in penalties …
President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday called for a prompt investigation and stern punishment for those responsible for the collapse of the Seosomun Overpass in Seoul, which killed three workers and injured three others dur…
A new Boston Consulting Group study found that nearly one-third of managers in the U.S., Canada, and European Union treat AI as a teammate or employee, listing the agents on company org charts. Researchers discovered tha…
Gartner warned that at least half of generative AI projects will exceed their budgeted costs due to poor architectural choices and lack of operational expertise, and that most organizations building custom, domain-specif…
According to Check Point's 2026 Cloud Security Report, 70% of organizations run generative AI in live environments and 64% have AI agents in pilot or production deployments, with some agents holding privileged access to …
Major technology firms including Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have publicly linked layoffs to AI adoption, eliminating tens of thousands of roles, with Meta cutting about 8,000 positions in an AI-focused restructuring. D…
Nearly four in 10 South Koreans reported using generative AI in 2025, a 14.9 percent increase from the previous year, according to a government survey released Thursday. Daily average usage reached 49.6 minutes, with ove…
The Department of National Defence quietly signed a $3.7-million contract with U.S. data firm Palantir Technologies Canada in June 2025, newly released parliamentary documents show. The deal deepens the Canadian governme…