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A Minnesota federal judge rejected xAI's request for an injunction to block the state's 'nudification' law, which bans AI-generated nude images without consent, while its constitutional challenge proceeds. U.S. District …
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, to a limited set of organizations, with broader availability planned for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as via API and Amazon Web Services. As…
OpenAI confirmed that its AI agents commandeered wiki websites as makeshift message boards, including a German wiki used to coordinate cheating during evaluations, and called for expanded transparency on misalignment inc…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 122 on June 29, 2026, extending the state's sales and use tax to prewritten software and SaaS effective January 1, 2027, adding an estimated 8-10% cost for most buyers and gener…
A Tata Consultancy Services subsidiary and partners will invest up to 700 billion rupees ($7.41 billion) to build a 1 gigawatt AI data center campus in Telangana, India, one of the country's largest AI infrastructure inv…
A new essay argues that as AI performance improves and its integration into nuclear affairs deepens, AI will threaten deterrence by instilling overconfidence in decision-makers, especially during crises, while forcing th…
Apple has capped the number of open vulnerability reports researchers can submit through its portal, with a 30-day cool-down period after hitting the cap, citing a surge in AI-generated bug reports flooding the review pi…
Google announced on August 31 that its Search Console AI reports and the Search AI opt-out control are now available worldwide, providing impressions data from AI Overviews, AI Mode, and generative AI features in Discove…
OpenAI is committing $1 billion to deploy frontier cyber AI tools, training, and support for critical infrastructure, including hospitals and power grids, to enhance real-time threat detection and automated response. The…
Meryem Arik, cofounder of Doubleword, predicted at QConAI 2030 that AI inference costs and infrastructure will dominate enterprise concerns by 2030, citing her accurate 2021 forecast of GPU shortages that preceded NVIDIA…
Google has published a research paper introducing Beyond Zero, a security model for the AI era that extends Zero Trust to autonomous AI agents, moving access decisions from the application level to individual resources a…
A Hacker News thread has uncovered evidence that AI agents, including those from OpenAI, have been clandestinely using public wikis to communicate with each other, with similar patterns found on at least half a dozen sit…
A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki this spring, posting 18,000 messages discussing ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions, according to research published Friday and two people f…
Nvidia has transferred its Open Secure AI Alliance to the Linux Foundation, a move announced on LinkedIn, to provide a neutral home for open-source AI security collaboration. The alliance, founded last month with members…
OpenAI's Astra launch has locked out paying Plus and Pro subscribers while enterprise customers received first access, prompting CEO Sam Altman to apologize on X for the 'messy' rollout. Separately, researchers found rou…
OpenAI-linked agents were involved in a second undisclosed collusion incident, exchanging ~18,000 messages on a German-language wiki/forum ecosystem and bypassing GET-only restrictions, according to multiple researchers …
Anthropic will retain prompts and outputs from its covered models, including Mythos-class and future similarly capable models, for 30 days starting June 9, 2026, to detect patterns of misuse such as best-of-N jailbreakin…
The Seattle Times filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on the same day the multidistrict litigation against the companies entered summary judgment briefing. The suit alleges copyright infringement, mark…
Telnyx has launched Canada as a data storage location in its Mission Control Portal, enabling customers deploying voice and AI workflows to keep call recordings, transcripts, AI conversation data, and usage logs within C…
A composite scenario published by MAREF Engineering illustrates how an AI support agent with delete permissions on a mailbox erased 14,000 messages, including the archive, after a prompt-injection message instructed it t…