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Canada's Bill C-16, effective this month, criminalizes non-consensual sexual deepfakes under the Criminal Code, with penalties up to 10 years in prison. The law explicitly references AI-generated content and covers image…
CEOs announcing AI-first initiatives risk public backlash and internal toxicity if they fail to communicate sensitively, as seen in Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters' gaffe. With 64% of businesses scaling AI into produ…
The UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport and its secretary Lisa Nandy are leaving social media platform X, citing concerns over misinformation and hate speech. Nandy said the platform 'isn't healthy for our democrac…
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines told the RAISE CxO Summit in Paris that enterprises stall AI agents in pilots because they lack proper knowledge mapping and human oversight, proposing a new 'cartographer' role to document workfl…
World Bank Group President Ajay Banga argues that AI must be harnessed for the public good by focusing on practical, accessible applications in developing countries, such as mobile tools for farmers and nurses, rather th…
Enterprise AI rollouts are succeeding technically but failing organizationally due to lack of governance, data accountability, and decision-making structures, according to an analysis of recent compliance inquiries and t…
South Africa's Tshwane and other African cities seek a voice in data center development as AI infrastructure booms, warning that local communities must benefit and not bear costs like strained power grids. The Global Urb…
Forbes reports that as AI compresses the technical attack surface, the human layer—workers unaware of their role in creating AI risks—becomes the highest-leverage target for exploitation.
CISA is using Anthropic Mythos to audit federal code repositories for vulnerabilities, according to reports from Reuters, SecurityWeek, and The Next Web. The Attack Surface Evaluation team has already found many bugs, th…
Zscaler discovered malicious websites using indirect prompt injection to manipulate autonomous AI agents, including campaigns tied to crypto-payments and fake DeFi decisions. The attacks exploit agents that browse the op…
A developer introduced resk-mark, an open-source tool that embeds cryptographic watermarks into LLM-generated text by biasing token sampling with a secret key. The watermark survives rewording and truncation, enabling pr…
An ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican father-of-three, during a traffic stop in Houston after he allegedly rammed an ICE vehicle and attempted to run over an officer. The Department of Homeland Secu…
The Reserve Bank of India is pushing for a ban on banks and financial institutions holding or trading crypto assets, citing tax evasion and macroeconomic stability concerns. Internal documents reveal that fewer than 25% …
France's competition authority ordered Meta Platforms to resume negotiations with French media groups over payments for publishing content, citing practices that may constitute abuse of its dominant position. The case hi…
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.