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Nvidia has filed a patent for a multi-stage system that screens AI training data for quality before it enters the training pipeline, using retriever models to score each query and embedding models to measure question-ans…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on September 10, 2026 what his office called the strongest child safety chatbot and social media laws in the nation. The legislation targets chatbot and social media prote…
Japan designated 19 municipalities in Hokkaido's Tokachi region, including Obihiro, as national strategic special zones on Thursday to promote AI-powered agriculture, the first such designation for AI-driven farming. The…
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told employees this week that the company is open to slowing development of its AI systems, according to sources familiar with the matter, a shift from its rapid frontier-model deploymen…
A developer has published a forensic dossier alleging that Google AI Studio's "Delete" button performs only a client-side metadata disconnect rather than a backend purge, leaving chat data intact on Google's servers. The…
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told employees at a company-wide meeting this week that OpenAI is open to slowing the development of its AI systems, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, saying the ChatGPT maker could p…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1405 on September 9, 2026, creating the nation's first state-run AI auditor registry, which the Government Operations Agency must launch by January 1, 2029, after which unregist…
The Pentagon's forthcoming cyber strategy will prioritize offensive operations aimed at delivering "big outcomes" for the defense secretary and President Donald Trump, Brig. Gen. William Wilburn, deputy principal cyber a…
Karnataka is planning to build an AI supply line through a dedicated university, an AI Hub in Bengaluru, and regional campuses in its 'Beyond Bengaluru' clusters, according to the state's DKS@100 initiative. The plan aim…
Anthropic said Thursday it shut down multiple state-sponsored surveillance operations that used its AI models between January and July, originating in China, Iran and west Africa. The campaigns targeted pro-democracy fig…
A paper submitted to arXiv on 9 Sep 2026 argues that the AI text watermarks now required under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which took effect on August 2, 2026, cannot currently be verified by users or regulators. Anthro…
Anthropic said on Thursday it disrupted China-based operators that used its Claude AI models for unauthorized model copying, surveillance, cyber intrusions, weapons-related research and fraud, according to a threat repor…
A quality-management engineer working in a Class II medical device environment describes discovering that an AI feature in an eQMS had approved a CAPA closure without any written record of who authorized the AI to make t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at a company-wide meeting this week that OpenAI is open to slowing development of cutting-edge AI, possibly in coordination with other AI labs, according to people familiar with the m…
Two more artificial intelligence researchers told NBC News' Tom Llamas they see a potential threat to humanity from AI, following a viral tweet by AI researcher Jacob Coxon stating he believed AI could kill humanity with…
Former Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and posted on X that OpenAI and Anthropic are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a post that drew 159 million v…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has held meetings with executives from Duke Energy, Exelon, Southern Co. and NextEra Energy since late July 2026, pitching OpenAI's Daybreak security model as a defense against AI-powered hackers ta…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed bipartisan legislation that creates the nation's strongest companion chatbot regulations and bans addictive social media features such as autoplay and algorithmic feeds based on us…
Mongolia signed ten memoranda of understanding covering 863 megawatts of prospective data centre capacity at the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Ulaanbaatar on 25 A…
Microsoft released fixes for a record 973 CVEs on September 8, 2026, the largest single Patch Tuesday in the program's history and more than 350 above July's previous record of 622, including two already-exploited zero-d…