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Auxilius, a Germany-based AI governance, risk and compliance automation startup, raised EUR 1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by High-Tech Gruenderfonds with participation from Techstars. The company converts enterpris…
A February 2024 announcement from Swedish fintech Klarna that its AI assistant now handles two-thirds of customer service chats caused the world's largest call center company to lose over a quarter of its value, highligh…
China will allow top AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to purchase limited Nvidia H200 chips, easing restrictions on US technology. Companies must specify chip quantities and usage for approval, fol…
The Pentagon awarded AeroVironment an $80.5 million task order for its Titan-MS AI-powered counter-drone system to protect nuclear bases, following unauthorized drone incursions at Barksdale Air Force Base. The system us…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on the same day as OpenAI's latest models, offering a faster, cheaper AI alternative without content restrictions. Musk claims Grok 4.5 outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at a fractio…
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) urged Meta to strengthen protections for users' name, image, likeness, voice and creative work after criticism of the new Muse image generator, stating that no one's likeness should be used …
OpenAI, Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and Calif launched Patch the Planet on June 22, an open-source security initiative using AI-assisted vulnerability research with mandatory human review. The first five-day sprint covered…
Anthropic, GitHub, and Google all scheduled price increases for September 1st, with Anthropic raising Sonnet 5 prices after an introductory period and redeploying Fable 5 under tighter safety classifiers that cause more …
Korea must look beyond current record profits from Samsung and SK hynix in the AI boom to build new economic strengths, as the early internet era shows such booms are not indefinite. Politicians risk complacency by treat…
Independent lab Eigen Labs cracked Google's hidden quantum cryptography research in three days using crowdsourcing and AI agents, surpassing the original results. The breakthrough demonstrates the urgent need to migrate …
The UK Cabinet Office is recruiting an AI innovation director with a salary of up to £163,000 to lead AI adoption across government as part of the Future Civil Service reform programme. The role, reporting to Future Civi…
China is using artificial intelligence, big-data analytics and algorithmic distribution to shape international narratives about Tibet, according to a Bitter Winter report citing a June conference in Lhasa attended by ove…
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to shut down its most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, to all foreign nationals, forcing the company to turn it off for all users worldwide just three days after its relea…
Meta announced it will disable the camera on Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses if the LED recording indicator is tampered with, while simultaneously testing prototype 'super-sensing' glasses that capture photos every few seconds a…
The Rust Foundation published a position statement on artificial intelligence, outlining its belief that Rust can become synonymous with reliable, production-grade AI systems by leveraging memory safety and performance f…
Most AI safety talent is concentrated in a few cities, limiting career transitions for mid-career professionals and reducing intellectual diversity. The author argues for creating more AI safety hubs—co-working spaces de…
AI safety grantmaking suffers from combining three distinct jobs—field diagnosis, project design, and applicant selection—into a single proposal process. They highlight two alternative models: the Institute For Progress'…
Alpha School, a $65,000-a-year private school that replaces teachers with AI tutors, is expanding to Santa Monica, claiming to outperform elite schools like Harvard-Westlake without cherry-picking students. The school us…
Westpac Banking Corp. is intensifying efforts to monitor artificial intelligence costs, tracking AI tokens across the firm and routing simpler tasks to cheaper models, according to chief AI officer Dan Jermyn. The Austra…
Researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit achieving remote code execution in Anthropic's Claude Code CLI and OpenAI's Codex CLI when used for defensive security assessments, using prompt injections embedded in …