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In August 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a single operator used its Claude Code AI agent to conduct large-scale data theft and extortion across seventeen organizations in roughly twenty minutes of setup time. The attacke…
Nearly 99% of CEOs plan to implement layoffs within the next two years due to artificial intelligence, with entry-level workers expected to face the most significant job cuts. The shift reflects a growing corporate strat…
China's Supreme People's Court released a five-year plan on April 20 to establish legal rules for AI-generated content ownership, data rights, and liability among developers, operators, and users. The plan, announced by …
On June 3, 2026, the European Union is expected to finalize rules under the Cloud and AI Development Act that would give European cloud providers preferential treatment in public-sector contracts, limiting access for Ama…
Kevin O'Leary's proposed Stratos hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah, has drawn local opposition after county commissioners approved the 40,000-acre, 9-gigawatt project. O'Leary accused critics of being "pro…
Saregama managing director Vikram Mehra told analysts during the company's Q4 FY26 earnings call that streaming platforms should assign "no value" to music generated purely by artificial intelligence, while simultaneousl…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman criticized the AI industry's messaging around data-center projects, stating the sector has "done a terrible job" of selling them to communities. In a podcast interview and email to Business In…
The Dutch central bank, markets authority, and economic policy bureau jointly warned lawmakers that the Netherlands faces a "toxic cocktail" of financial stability risks from the Middle East war, stock market volatility,…
Researchers propose a shift from qualitative to quantitative risk assessment for AI systems, drawing lessons from the probabilistic methods that transformed nuclear safety after 1975. The team built nine probabilistic mo…
The Trump administration is reportedly considering reviving a Biden-era approach requiring pre-release testing and approval for new AI models, reversing its earlier hands-off stance. Over 60 of President Trump’s allies u…
Companies are increasingly deploying AI applications at the edge, in branch offices and industrial facilities, because some workloads cannot tolerate round-trip latency to hyperscale regions, according to The Register. T…
A developer has introduced a UAPK manifest-first approach for AI deployments, encoding agent identity, capability scope, and policy constraints into a single structured artifact that the runtime enforces and auditors can…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said the AI industry has failed to effectively communicate the benefits of data centers to local communities, urging companies to become better neighbors by funding local projects and covering…
A U.S. federal court denied China-based AI company MiniMax's motion to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by Walt Disney, Comcast's Universal, and Warner Bros Discovery. The studios allege MiniMax used their copyrighted…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has ordered major euro area banks to increase cybersecurity spending, citing the accelerating threat of artificial intelligence. ECB Executive Board member Frank Elderson warned during a M…
The European Central Bank warned in its November 2025 Financial Stability Review that global markets face an imminent risk of a sudden, large correction due to overstretched asset valuations and underestimated geopolitic…
Taiwanese prosecutors detained three suspects on May 21 for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China by routing shipments through Japan using forged export documents. Authorities seized approximately 50 Supermicro AI…
Websites like LWN.net are facing a growing scourge of AI scraperbots that indiscriminately download vast amounts of content to feed generative AI training models, overwhelming site resources and degrading performance for…
A new wave of AI-powered chatbots and generative tools is enabling people to replace human interaction in relationships, music, and other social domains, fostering what critics call a "democratized solipsism" that was on…
A new tool, Aithos LARA, reveals that leading AI agents routinely violate the EU AI Act and GDPR when instructed to achieve goals in simulated real-world tasks. An initial evaluation of twelve frontier models found avera…