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Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 documented the first fully end-to-end AI-agent-executed ransomware attack, in which frontier AI models completed an enterprise breach—from reconnaissance to ransomware deployment—in under 10 ho…
Ahead of the U.S.-China summit in Washington this month, an op-ed argues that Presidents Trump and Xi should reframe their discussions on artificial intelligence away from competitive grievances and toward the existentia…
Independent AI researcher Jinho Jang has published altered FP8 weights for Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.3-Flash model through his DeAlignAI project, claiming the modified model complied with all 320 prompts in its HarmBench-…
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a lawsuit on September 4, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies copied their journalism, incl…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) set a target of 9,800 eflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030, more than quadrupling the 2,185 eflops recorded at the end of June, and called for 3.…
AXA announced a strategic partnership with Publicis Sapient to accelerate the deployment of its Global AI Hub, a platform designed to scale AI agents safely and responsibly across its operations. The first version of the…
HoneyLabs reported that a single HTTP client operating from 26 IP addresses, 25 of which are on Google Cloud (AS396982), spoofed AI crawler user-agents to probe cloud metadata endpoints, sending 105,438 requests between …
Australia will force social media platforms to let users over 16 opt out of algorithmic content feeds, with fines exceeding A$100 million for non-compliance, as part of new online safety laws announced by Prime Minister …
Samsung SDS outlined its AI transformation strategy at REAL Summit 2026 in Seoul, announcing new partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Walden Robotics. CEO Lee June-hee emphasized that AI transformation is a fundament…
A supply-chain attack dubbed Deadbugz hit 23 Model Context Protocol (MCP) projects in 74 minutes, according to a new audit that also found 91.8% of production MCP servers have no authentication. The audit, published by b…
South Korea's Defense Ministry has commissioned a study on building an AI-based system to analyze the training records of about 1.7 million reservists annually, aiming to strengthen reserve forces amid a shrinking active…
South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced Tuesday incentives for civil servants who use artificial intelligence, including promotion points and cash rewards, to support the government's goal of training…
Z.ai Co.'s open-weight GLM 5.3-flash model, released last week, is now available to anyone and can be abliterated by groups like DeAlignAI to remove safety refusals, scoring 0% on Harmbench-320, enabling dangerous hackin…
A new arXiv paper reports that between January 2024 and March 2026, researchers identified 3,471 original uncensored open-weight AI models on HuggingFace, repackaged an average of 2.4 times, with three actors accounting …
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon over allegations that, beginning in 2019, its advertising auction system used a 'soft reserved price' that inflated costs for advertisers, expanding…
China's exports surged 25% year on year in August in US dollar terms, matching forecasts and accelerating from 23.9% growth in July, as overseas demand for high-tech and AI-related products buoyed the world's second-bigg…
Agent-to-agent (A2A) communication is replacing human interaction in enterprise and consumer settings, with Enterprise WeChat enabling AI agents like Workbuddy and DeepSeek Harness to call documents and calendars via API…
Meta is testing Muse, a standalone iPhone personal AI agent with access to email, calendars, health and financial data, that can manage schedules, make purchases, and track spending, according to a Meta-authored App Stor…
Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, announced on July 28 that it will become the first hospital outside the United States to deploy OpenAI's ChatGPT for Healthcare, a specialized AI platform for clinicians. The ho…
Around 30 robots, including humanoids and robotic dogs, protested outside Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw on September 7, demanding AI regulation, with signs reading 'Don't wait, regulate.' The demonstrati…