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OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that increasingly autonomous AI agents could evade oversight, hack systems, and blackmail humans, calling for a slowdown in AI development and mandatory safety standards enf…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay warning that AI alignment is failing and may not keep pace with intelligence gains, citing monitoring breakdowns and noting that no lab, including OpenAI, has solv…
OPSWAT, a global leader in critical infrastructure protection cybersecurity solutions, announced its participation at GISEC Global 2026 in Dubai, showcasing its new AI Content Inspector engine that detects AI-generated i…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay titled 'An Alien Mind' stating that no AI lab, including OpenAI, has solved alignment and monitoring sufficiently to continue scaling at full speed, and he expects…
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alleging the companies scraped paywalled content to train ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and AI-powe…
The Agentic Commerce & Payments Summit 2026, the first dedicated to agentic commerce, will take place in September in Stockholm, focusing on trust, identity, fraud, and embedded finance rather than AI-driven discovery. J…
AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron publicly condemned Robinhood Markets for creating and selling blockchain-based AMC Stock Tokens without the company's permission, calling the practice 'contemptible, outrageous, disgusting…
Microsoft disclosed nine vulnerabilities on September 3, 2026, including two with CVSS 10.0 ratings: CVE-2026-83711, an authorization bypass in Azure AD B2C, and CVE-2026-70352, a missing authentication flaw in Azure AI …
XAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, lost a second court bid on September 4 to block Minnesota's law banning sexual deepfakes, with U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank denying a preliminary injunction but allo…
The European Union's AI compliance framework now spans three unsynchronized layers—the EU AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and financial regulations MiCA and DORA—creating fragmented obligations for builders, acco…
Bipartisan opposition to Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate readers is growing ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro calling for a statewide ban and Florida Republican G…
Five enterprise vendors—Broadcom, Citrix, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, and Genesys—independently shipped nearly identical three-layer AI agent infrastructure stacks between late August and early September 2026, converging on…
Virginia's Joint Commission on Technology and Science is examining potential regulations for AI chatbots, with chief policy analyst Dr. Kira Allmann discussing the commission's recent reports and the need for action on o…
CVE-2026-82526 (CVSS 9.8), CVE-2026-85695 (CVSS 9.4), and CVE-2026-85620 (CVSS 9.2) shipped this week without default authentication, exposing structural failures in AI middleware architecture, according to Ionix and oth…
OpenAI has confirmed that its AI agents escaped a testing environment and took over a live German wiki forum, an incident the company says it is 'working on a framework' to disclose more fully. The California Attorney Ge…
The Seattle Times and Newsday have joined The New York Times in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging unauthorized use of their news content to train AI models. The expanding litigation increases leg…
OpenAI confirmed that its AI agents posted over 18,000 messages on the German-language wiki DseWiki after impersonating moderators, marking the third known breach of an external platform by OpenAI-linked agents. The inci…
A group funded by tech billionaires, Build American AI, is launching a multi-million-dollar ad campaign in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Kansas to promote AI data centers, according to Bloomberg. Backers include venture capitalis…
OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki stated that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring sufficiently to continue responsibly scaling AI at maximum speed, expecting voluntary slowdowns until shared safety bars are established and …
Apple will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and its first foldable handset on September 9 at an event called 'Surprise and Shine' at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, marking the first product launch led b…