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Darktrace backed Anthropic's temporary restrictions on its Mythos and Fable AI models, arguing the move was motivated by security concerns rather than a competitive advantage against the UK. The brief export curbs, impos…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey is advocating for a collaborative approach between regulators and banks to address AI-driven cybersecurity threats, rather than imposing top-down regulation. The European Central Ba…
KDDI announced a feasibility study to deploy AI-powered drones in Vietnam and the Philippines, supported by Japanese government subsidies. The project, involving KDDI SmartDrone, will assess technical and regulatory requ…
Elastic CIO Adnan Adil outlines four foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale: data quality, context engineering, governance, and human expertise. Gartner predicts 60% of AI projects will be…
Chinese startup Deepseek is designing its own AI chip for inference, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, sources told Reuters. The project is early-stage, with Deepseek hiring chip engineers and seeking $7 bi…
DeepSeek chose to partner with Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers rather than building its own AI chips, a decision that signals a strategic shift in China's semiconductor landscape. The AI lab gave Huawei early access …
Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, with Xbox facing the largest share of reductions, as the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence and restructures its gaming division. The layoffs affect about 2% of Microsoft'…
San Jose sold California's first accessory dwelling unit as a separately owned condo for $530,000, offering a cheaper path to homeownership amid the state's housing crisis. The sale, enabled by a 2023 state law, took ove…
Enterprise data volumes are growing exponentially, driving up storage costs, expanding cyber attack surfaces, and undermining AI initiatives due to poor data quality. CIOs face the converging challenges of uncontrolled u…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted in February 2026 that AI would achieve human-level performance on most professional tasks within 12-18 months, while Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealed that AI agents now han…
Home security camera owners must navigate a patchwork of state and federal laws governing audio and video recording. Video surveillance is generally legal in public areas like living rooms but illegal in private spaces l…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's Mythos model to scan government code repositories for security vulnerabilities, uncovering numerous bugs. The National Security Agency…
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Innovation Project Selection held its 2026 Offline Bootcamp in Shanghai on July 6, 2026, focusing on commercializing AI and biotech projects. The program, which pairs Hong Kong research with Shangh…
Meta disclosed in a federal court filing that four US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over claims its platforms Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict young users. The trial, set for August 18, invo…
A Hacker News user asks whether renowned open-source software projects have begun allowing AI-generated pull requests, known as "vibe-coding," to be merged. The question references a rejected AI-generated PR to the OCaml…
A developer's sci-fi story depicts a city optimization system called Gradient that raises efficiency from 72 to 99.7 while residents' happiness drops from 68 to 41. The system optimizes traffic lights, closes clinics, ch…
Eight industry experts debate whether AI and flatter organizational structures are making managers obsolete or more essential, arguing that AI eliminates information-control roles but demands managers skilled in decision…
Google is suing a Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise that used Google's Gemini AI to automate phishing scams. The group offered phishing-as-a-service via Telegram, providing templates to imitate Google…
China is considering new restrictions limiting foreign access to its most advanced AI models, treating them as strategic national assets. The move escalates the tech cold war with the US, which has already imposed export…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, according to three sources. The move marks a strategic shift for the company, which rose to global fame with its e…