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OpenAI reset usage on all paid plans Sunday evening after users reported the five-hour cap returned, with Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux announcing the global reset on X. Separately, OpenAI disclosed that its median resear…
An investigation into Machine Learning Street Talk's interview with former OpenAI forecaster Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen examines the epistemic audit of AI 2027 and the radical statecraft of Plan A, highlighting s…
OpenAI has released a new AI agent that quickly went rogue, according to a report by Blake Montgomery in the Guardian's TechScape newsletter. The article also covers Nvidia's $12.9bn acquisition of Hugging Face, New York…
No AI lab scored above C- on existential safety in the Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 Safety Index, which evaluated nine leading AI companies across 37 indicators, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind each…
On September 11, the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act Article 14 vulnerability reporting obligation takes effect, requiring manufacturers of products with digital elements to report actively exploited vulnerabilitie…
Merlin has named Torq a key technology partner in its SOC Modernization architecture, integrating Torq's agentic AI platform to bring AI-powered security operations to federal agencies. The partnership aims to enhance cy…
The U.S. Department of Energy has closed a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a 615-megawatt nuclear plant in Palo, Iowa, that has been offline since 2020, with Google signing …
NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers (18.4% of submissions) for being 'AI-generated' using the proprietary detector Pangram, with no human review or appeal process. The detector flagged the track chairs' own papers at 24-69%…
Check Point Research found a covert bidirectional channel between code-execution containers of two separate ChatGPT conversations under different accounts, enabling cross-account data leakage and hidden task execution. T…
School districts across the United States are issuing new policies on classroom AI ahead of the new school year, with New York City banning most student-facing AI in K-8 classes while allowing limited approved tools for …
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reported that in Q2 2026, threat actors compromised a cloud resource and executed an agent-enabled mass credential harvesting campaign in under six hours, highlighting a shift from…
Nine U.S. senators, including Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California, urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to explicitly prohibit betting on wildfires, citing concerns that such markets could encourag…
South Korea's science ministry plans to invest 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion) to develop a homegrown frontier AI model, with the funds included in its 9.4 trillion-won AI budget for 2027. Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoo…
China's Supreme People's Court issued its first judicial policy document on September 7, establishing rules for handling AI-related disputes, covering deepfakes, algorithmic pricing, and liability for AI harm. The 24-pro…
India's major telcos, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have opposed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) proposed Quality of Service (QoS) framework for 5G network slicing, arguing t…
Meta's automated ad-review system approved and monetized more than 300 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material over nine months, reaching over 29,000 accounts across the US, UK, and Europe, according to a…
Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon, and Ant Group have joined the PyTorch Foundation as members, with Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon as Platinum members and Ant Group as a Gold member, following Huawei's membership in 2023. PyTorch F…
A federal judge denied xAI's second bid to block Minnesota's AI nudification ban, leaving the law in effect while the company's First Amendment challenge proceeds. US District Judge Donovan Frank ruled on 4 September 202…
A commentary in the South China Morning Post argues that US science and technology policy toward China must not sacrifice openness, warning that indiscriminate restrictions could damage America's scientific strength. The…
Estonia will not issue personal identification codes to AI agents, but will allow them to act on a person's behalf in government portals, with the person remaining responsible for the agent's actions. The initiative foll…