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Utah launched a prescription refill program using an AI chatbot called Doctronic, allowing residents to get refills without seeing a doctor. The program has sparked debate among doctors and experts about AI's role in med…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's AI model Mythos to audit government software for vulnerabilities, according to three sources. The audits, conducted by CISA's Attack S…
A developer warns that German criminal code § 202c StGB, known as the 'Hacker-Paragraph,' criminalizes the preparation of data espionage and can trap developers who use security tools without explicit written consent. Th…
Anthropic has been banned as a vendor at comma_ai, with the company's founder recommending other firms follow suit and warning against over-reliance on cloud token vendors.
Scotland's governing SNP voted to freeze all new datacentre projects, threatening a core pillar of the UK's AI strategy that relies on Scotland's renewable energy. The moratorium could halt 24 hyperscale projects drawing…
OpenAI endorsed the European Commission's voluntary Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content on June 11, 2025, committing to use provenance tools like C2PA Content Credentials and SynthID watermarks to co…
Security researchers at Noma Security demonstrated the GitLost exploit, which uses indirect prompt injection to trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into exfiltrating private repository data through public issues. The attack e…
AI image generation company Midjourney asked a U.S. court to require Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose more details about their internal use of artificial intelligence in an ongoing copyright dispute. Midjo…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that U.S. power consumption will surpass record highs in 2026 and 2027, driven by surging demand from artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers.
A new YouGov poll reveals that nearly one in five Americans under 30 have formed a personal friendship with an AI chatbot, and a quarter have confided secrets to AI they never shared with humans. The survey highlights a …
Access to an article about China's AI agents has been blocked by Cloudflare security. The site's protections triggered a block, and users are instructed to email support with details including the Cloudflare Ray ID a1791…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized frontier AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic, claiming enterprises get no value from their tokens and risk losing IP. However, many companies are actively seeking ROI from AI, and Karp's commen…
Chinese authorities discussed potential restrictions on overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, according to Reuters. The proposed controls would expand beyond chips to…
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own in-house MAI models in some app features, prioritizing cost and data residency. The shift is incremental, with OpenAI and Anthropic still handling mo…
The U.S. men's national team exited the World Cup after a 4-1 loss to Belgium in the Round of 16, drawing harsh criticism from fans and pundits. Controversy surrounded FIFA's decision to suspend Folarin Balogun's red car…
A blog post responding to widespread AI fatigue argues that CEO-driven AI adoption is fueled by FOMO and false promises of productivity, leading to layoffs and restructures, while individual developers who make AI their …
China is considering restricting overseas access to its advanced AI models, including unreleased systems and some open-weight releases, according to a Reuters report. The Ministry of Commerce has held meetings with Aliba…
China is considering cutting off foreign access to its top AI systems, including open-source models, following a meeting between state officials and tech developers Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move aims to protect …
U.S. companies are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 due to rising domestic costs and narrowing performance gaps, with corporate usage surging from 4.5% in early 2025 to over 30% we…
AI writing tools that polish social media posts can subtly shift their meaning, and those small biases can accumulate to steer public opinion, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet Institute and Germany's Has…