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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is using Anthropic's AI model Mythos to audit government code for vulnerabilities, according to three anonymous sources. The arrangement comes despite a recent Pent…
The UK Cabinet Office published terms of reference for a sweeping review of the civil service, focusing on AI's impact, talent retention, and organizational structure. Outgoing PM Keir Starmer announced the review, which…
The European Central Bank's top supervisor, Claudia Buch, ordered the EU's largest banks to submit action plans by the end of October addressing risks from advanced AI models, citing concerns that systems like Anthropic'…
Generative AI has exposed the credential trap in higher education, where students prioritize degrees over learning due to rising tuition costs and labor-market pressures, leading to increased academic dishonesty. The shi…
AI is accelerating legacy IT modernization in regulated sectors like banking and insurance, but the primary risk has shifted from code conversion to proving that new systems comply with original business rules. Regulator…
A new poll from Athena Insights finds that Americans are nearly three times as likely to be concerned about AI's growing role in society as they are excited, with the majority expressing unease about the technology's imp…
Australia's AI Safety Institute has begun testing frontier AI models with technical partners, turning model evaluation into an active government function. Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton announced at the Australian AI…
Google's John Mueller responded to a post on Bluesky criticizing the trend of creating separate markdown versions for AI agents, stating that a properly made website works well for both AI agents and humans, and that sep…
The European Banking Authority warned banks to prepare for frontier AI risks, citing advanced large language models that could exploit software vulnerabilities faster than human security teams. The regulator urged streng…
Hong Kong will expand its yuan facility by 150% to 500 billion yuan (US$73.6 billion) to meet international demand, HKMA Chief Executive Eddie Yue announced Tuesday. The facility's tenure will extend to two to three year…
Meta Platforms announced plans to spend between $115 billion and $145 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly double its 2025 spending, triggering over $1 trillion in market cap losses across AI stocks. Nvidia and P…
A veteran HBO executive who navigated four tech disruptions advocates 'AI Minimalism' as the strategy for surviving the fifth wave of artificial intelligence. The approach calls for stripping operations to essential, eff…
The European Central Bank has ordered all supervised banks to submit cybersecurity action plans by October 31, citing a surge in AI-powered cyberattacks. The directive, announced by ECB Executive Board member Frank Elder…
The FCA-commissioned Mills Review signals a major regulatory shift, moving away from a hands-off approach to AI in financial services and recommending new rules for AI agents. The review highlights that one in five UK ad…
Cloud security in 2026 is being reshaped by rapid adoption of zero-trust architecture and a growing focus on quantum-safe encryption, driven by advanced AI, autonomous agents, and the quantum computing threat. Gartner pr…
Banks are rapidly adopting agentic AI systems that can take actions, not just answer questions, creating a new security risk of overprivileged agents. In April 2026, Five Eyes cyber agencies issued joint guidance on secu…
Anthropic hired Teresa Carlson as its first Global Head of Public Sector, tapping a veteran of Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk to lead government relations. The move comes as the AI company navigates complex t…
Samsung Electronics reported an 18-fold surge in second-quarter operating profit to 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), driven by rising memory chip prices amid AI demand, but a subsequent share slump revealed investor co…
A product manager recounts how an automated evaluation caught a bug that would have slipped through a 'vibe coded' tool, prompting a historical look at human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop automation. The US Air Fo…
Christof Salis argues that humanity is currently living through an AI utopia but fails to recognize it, urging readers to imagine the most optimistic plausible scenario for AI development from a 2017 perspective.