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Self-represented litigants are using AI chatbots to flood U.S. federal courts with professionally formatted but often meritless lawsuits, causing docket entries to spike 158% above pre-AI averages. MIT and USC research a…
The FBI and local intelligence hubs are now classifying criticism of artificial intelligence as a potential indicator of "anti-tech violent extremism," according to over 1,000 pages of unpublished government surveillance…
Varonis introduces AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) as a discipline that transforms AI visibility into actionable risk reduction. AI-SPM continuously assesses AI systems for multiple security, compliance, and oper…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, was released on Memorial Day with the subtitle "on the safeguarding of the human person in the time of AI," deliberately avoiding a focus on the technology itself. …
Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham said on X that he ignores emails from startup founders written with AI, calling the practice a lie. Graham, a key figure in the startup world, said AI-generated pitches have a "hard-hit…
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters apologized on LinkedIn for causing "upset" after referring to certain workers as "lower value human capital" that could be replaced by AI, backtracking on comments made at an investor …
Xint, an AI-powered autonomous pentesting platform, is not designed to replace human security engineers but to act as a a force multiplier by automating code analysis and vulnerability discovery. The company argues that …
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines how the United States managed to bend the health care cost curve. The analysis explores factors behind recent moderation in health spending growt…
The FBI confirmed that the man who drove a truck into a synagogue near Detroit in March 2026 posted anti-Israel comments on Facebook before the attack, while the gunman who killed two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washingt…
China has imposed restrictions on overseas travel for employees of artificial intelligence companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other private firms, according to sources familiar with the matter. The measures aim t…
SpaceX granted Elon Musk a pay package of 1.3 billion restricted shares contingent on establishing a Mars colony and launching space-based data centers, but the company is allowing him to vote those unearned shares in sh…
Anthropic has developed an AI model called Claude Mythos that autonomously scans open-source code for vulnerabilities, finding over 6,200 critical flaws including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, but the company admits it l…
Universal Music Group and TikTok renewed their global licensing agreement, committing to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform and improve artist and songwriter attribution. The deal marks a shift from…
A security researcher demonstrated that for a $125 investment and a valid business email address, an attacker can create a Claude Team and trick users into joining it, ultimately achieving remote code execution on victim…
Banks are increasingly using AI-based fraud detection systems that can block legitimate customer payments in milliseconds, according to a report from The Conversation. The systems evaluate transactions using dozens of fe…
On Feb 10, 2026, an 18-year-old woman, Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed eight people and herself in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, after OpenAI had flagged her ChatGPT conversations for extreme-violence content and suspend…
Wikimedia Taiwan Secretary-General Reke Wang represented the organization at the "Web Crawling Governance Policy Dialogue" convened by the Institute for Information Industry on May 20, 2026. Wang joined a working group o…
A federal appellate court flagged an attorney's brief for containing fabricated case citations and fictitious quotations, the "hallmarks" of generative AI misuse, in a defamation lawsuit against members of an "Are We Dat…
The PUBLIC LIGHTHOUSE CORE v1.7 runtime has been released, adding two new sublayers to Layer 3 (State Validation): the Orientation State Register (OSR) for spatial frame and basis tracking, and Narrative State Validation…
Trucking fleets face mounting pressure to accelerate adoption of new technologies and regulatory compliance as artificial intelligence reshapes logistics operations, industry experts warned. Companies that fail to adapt …