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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 …
OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6 to all users on July 9 after the Trump administration cleared the model for public release, ending a monthlong standoff over frontier model safety. The flagship Sol, mid-tier Terra, and low-cos…
Spain reaffirmed its strong ties with the United States amid President Trump's preliminary Iran deal, which reopened the Strait of Hormuz and caused oil prices to drop. Brent crude fell to $83.17 and WTI to $81.46 per ba…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has become a major platform for cryptocurrency adoption, with Kraken serving as the Official Crypto Exchange Supporter and Polymarket operating prediction markets on match outcomes. England's quar…
The United Arab Emirates announced a plan to have half of its government services run on agentic AI within two years, a move experts call reckless. Citing a Dutch scandal where an AI system wrongly accused 35,000 familie…
The World Cup 2026 quarterfinals are set with France, Morocco, Norway, England, Spain, Belgium, Argentina, and Switzerland advancing. Egypt alleges officiating bias after a controversial VAR decision in its loss to Argen…