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A new Australian government report finds women and university graduates are most at risk of losing jobs to AI, while those with high vocational training, such as tradespeople, are least exposed. Telemarketers, advertisin…
Model distillation is undermining the profitability of major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google by enabling smaller models to learn from their outputs, as reported by Business Insider on July 8, 2026. Major labs…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority ordered Google to rank organic search results by objective criteria and provide transparency into its ranking systems, including AI Overviews, under its Strategic Market Status de…
Former DeepMind executive Verity Harding argues that framing AI development as an arms race between the US and China is dangerous, potentially undermining international cooperation needed for safe and equitable AI. In he…
AI-driven job losses could eliminate 15% of knowledge worker positions within three years, prompting comparisons to past labor disruptions. A century ago, the U.S. responded to agricultural job losses by building high sc…
OpenAI has received U.S. regulatory approval to roll out its GPT-5.6 model, according to an Axios report. The green light marks a significant step for the company's latest AI system.
Anthropic secretly added hidden tracking markers to its Claude Code tool in March, flagging users' timezones, proxy connections, and potential ties to Chinese AI labs. The code was discovered by security researcher There…
Automox released MCP Server 2.2, adding interactive review surfaces, Patch by Severity policy creation, and live capability discovery to its governed agentic interface for endpoint operations. The update enhances AI-driv…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, briefly suspended by the U.S. Commerce Department due to a jailbreak vulnerability, is now available again for stock analysis. The guide explains how to use the model to identify underva…
The open-isms platform, a self-hostable Information Security Management System for EU NIS 2 Directive compliance, has been released as free and open-source software under AGPL-3.0. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Pos…
The National Science Foundation has canceled over 1,600 grants and terminated key staff under the Trump administration, undermining the US government's own AI dominance strategy. The cuts have slowed foundational AI rese…
At the 2026 Machina Summit, European executives warned that severe data training bottlenecks threaten the continent's ability to compete with China and the US in humanoid robotics, urging policymakers to act. Industry le…
OpenAI received permission from the Trump administration to publicly launch GPT-5.6 and its three variants—Sol, Luna, and Terra—on July 9, after submitting the models for government review and additional testing by the D…
A new paper on gradual disempowerment warns that advanced AI could slowly erode human control over civilization as institutions replace human participation with machine alternatives, leading to a future where human value…
Emerging-market stocks fell 0.6% as an escalation in the Middle East conflict, triggered by US President Donald Trump ending the ceasefire with Iran, added to a rotation out of AI beneficiaries. Oil prices jumped and ris…
AI model distillation, a technique that trains models using outputs from other AI systems, is threatening the profitability of major US AI companies by enabling rivals to replicate expensive frontier systems cheaply. Ant…
The Trump administration's AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, mandated by executive order, missed its 30-day deadline to coordinate vulnerability scanning and patching in critical infrastructure. Experts warn that without e…
Kore.ai has partnered with Atos UK&I to deliver sovereign agentic AI solutions for UK enterprises, combining Kore.ai's Agent Platform Artemis with Atos' Sovereign Agentic Studio to provide governed, production-ready AI a…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, its most intelligent model, is free for paid plan users until July 12, 2026. The model scores 80.3% on SWE-bench Pro and features 1M-token context with no long-context surcharge. After the fre…
OpenAI received US government clearance to broadly release its GPT-5.6 model family after weeks of additional testing by the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation. The model had been restricted to …