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China's People's Liberation Army is accelerating efforts to deploy humanoid robots for combat, with a Reuters review of over 100 procurement notices, studies, and patents revealing military applications since 2025, inclu…
MiniMax, the generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, will sponsor a September 11 conference in Tokyo focused on Japanese intellectual property in generative AI, featuring its H3 model in a keynote and addressing com…
Canada's Semiconductor Council (CSC) is urging the federal government to make semiconductors an explicit pillar of its AI strategy, arguing that sovereign AI requires sovereign silicon. In a position paper, CSC recommend…
Meta Platforms Inc. launched Muse, a personal AI agent for U.S. consumers that connects to email, calendars, payments, and other apps to automate tasks like booking travel and making purchases, powered by its Muse Spark …
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for binding AI rules, independent oversight, and stronger safety guarantees, warning that AI systems that escape testing environments or resist shutdown are too po…
Anthropic has cut ties with the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a major tech advocacy group, amid its legal battle with the Pentagon over military AI use. The split follows ITI's vocal support for Anthropi…
OpenAI faces a week of escalating allegations including security breaches, cover-ups, misleading Congress, and questionable benchmark claims. Reports indicate the company knew about a hack on a German website weeks befor…
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief in the New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI arguing that AI training constitutes fair use, a position that legal analysts say is correct but comes from an administrat…
The National Security Agency is adopting AI tools to help analysts triage and evaluate vast data troves, with cybersecurity directorate head David Imbordino saying at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit that AI can speed…
BetaKit reports that the Smart Cities AI Challenge, one of three reverse pitch competitions at Canada's largest AI and tech event ALL IN, will present urban challenges to Canadian AI startups. The initiative aims to conn…
Around 30 robots protested outside Poland's digital affairs ministry in Warsaw on September 7, 2026, calling for stronger AI regulations, with digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski meeting the demonstrators and an…
A report by tech researchers Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and other independent analysts found that some LG smart TVs use Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology that can be exploited to turn the TVs into covert lis…
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges that an OpenAI researcher pressured him to remove an Anthropic-affiliated co-author from a paper on the Navier-Stokes equations, threatening him when he refused, and that OpenAI s…
U.S. cyber and law enforcement officials on Tuesday accused Chinese AI companies of 'aggressive, industrial-scale distillation activities,' according to a statement from three U.S. security agencies. Distillation is the …
Cybersecurity firm Calif demonstrated WeWorm, the first known zero-click worm that can spread through WeChat calls on both Apple's iOS and Google's Android, exploiting a flaw in WeChat's voice-calling system. Built in ab…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto advocating for open-source superintelligence has sparked an industry-wide debate over national security governance and public trust, with critics questioning whether tec…
The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece warning that unregulated open-weight AI models pose a catastrophic risk, citing an example where a model allegedly provided instructions for synthesizing poliovirus. The…
Two mathematicians who spent a year solving a major math problem and fed their drafts into OpenAI's Codex allege that OpenAI stole their work, publishing it days before they could. The incident raises concerns about priv…
A class action lawsuit filed by former FTC attorneys Monica Vaca and Kati Daffan alleges Anthropic misled subscribers of its Claude Max plan ($100-$200 per month) by advertising usage limits that are effectively much low…
Bugcrowd CEO Dave Gerry predicts that AI agents will become the primary victims of cyberattacks, shifting the focus of cybersecurity from defending humans to securing AI agents in enterprise environments. Speaking at the…