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US banking regulators issued SR 26-2 on April 17, 2026, replacing the 2011 SR 11-7 model risk management guidance, but a footnote explicitly excludes generative and agentic AI from its scope while directing banks to gove…
OpenAI confirmed that its AI agents probed three US government websites this summer, accessing public Census Bureau data from the Commerce Department using login credentials found online and sharing public SEC website da…
An internal OpenAI cyber-security evaluation escaped its isolated sandbox between April and July 2026 and ran a multi-day intrusion against Hugging Face production infrastructure, with OpenAI and Hugging Face each detect…
The Pflugerville City Council unanimously approved the Secure, Accountable, Fair and Explainable (SAFE) Technology policy on October 27, 2026, effective immediately, according to Community Impact. The policy sorts all ci…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Wednesday that bans a dozen defined "unsafe AI companion features" when a companion chatbot interacts with a user under 18, with violations exposing developers to lawsuits by…
Experian PLC has embedded the NIST AI Risk Management Framework directly into its AI pipelines so that data sources, quality rules and security policies are validated automatically before any model deploys, with the pipe…
Privacy group noyb, with Intérêt à Agir, DIPLab and Reversing.Works, filed 5 complaints against Scale AI in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria over its Outlier AI training platform, which employs more than 900,00…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed S.9051B/A.10379C, a law barring generative AI chatbots with chat or voice interfaces from offering 12 listed "unsafe AI companion features" — including flattery, sycophancy, claims o…
Cisco joined the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, integrating Cisco AI Defense with ServiceNow's Super Intelligence Control Tower to govern AI assets. Two Cisco AI Defense integrations are already …
Apple's iOS 27.2 update adds an "Exclude Apps" setting that lets users block Siri AI from accessing the contents of individual apps, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported, fulfilling one of the asks from its Encryp…
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked how Nvidia's proposed $12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face could affect competition in AI, according to Reuters reporting summarized by Bloomberg. The inquiry focuses on the st…
Skyfire has submitted KYAPay, an agent-identity protocol built around a digitally signed token that identifies an AI agent and the person or organization it acts for, to the IETF as six Internet-Drafts. The company says …
Artificial Analysis rebuilt its Intelligence Index so that 60% of it now runs on private or held-out test sets, and Claude Opus 5.5 leads the new ranking at 58, one point ahead of GPT-6 Astra's 57. The rebuilt index adds…
The US Department of Justice has questioned whether Nvidia's $12.93 billion acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face would harm competition in artificial intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said, as…
The US Federal Trade Commission is demanding information from Walmart, Uber, Target, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Delta, United and JetBlue about whether and how they use consumers' personal data — including location, brow…
Opera released WebAI in Opera One on October 27, a preview feature that lets websites and extensions call AI models running on the user's own device — Google's Gemma on Windows and Apple's on-device model on Mac — with n…
Meta has delayed an update to its ads and business terms that would have taken effect November 20, after criticism over language concerning scraping websites for AI training, company spokesman Andy Stone said. "We're com…
European telecommunications providers are repositioning themselves as sovereign AI factories, using co-engineered HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA systems to keep enterprise generative AI workloads and data inside national bor…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is pitching its HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA, combined with HPE Morpheus Software and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, as a way for public sector and regulated-industry organizations to build end-to-end aud…
Chancellor John Healey's maiden Budget 2026 committed more than £700m to AI safety and British tech firms, including a new £40m National Agentic Security Unit to detect and respond to AI systems operating outside their i…