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Nvidia has transferred its Open Secure AI Alliance to the Linux Foundation, just over a month after launching the initiative to address security challenges in open source AI software. The alliance, which includes Microso…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a formal policy governing AI systems that interact with children under 18, requiring age-appropriate design, transparency, and human review, while Anthropic won a federal cour…
Deutsche Telekom (DT) appointed Jan Hofmeyr, an AWS vice president and former Comcast chief network officer, as its new CTO and board member for product and technology, effective November. Hofmeyr replaces Abdu Mudesir, …
A new analysis by an unnamed author warns that open-weight AI models, when deliberately adapted for harmful objectives, could become a proliferating strategic resource, citing the August 2026 launch of a low-refusal GLM-…
The European Union AI Office is hiring approximately 40 additional contractual agents, including technology specialists, legal officers, and operations staff, with an application deadline of September 8, 2026, signaling …
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20212, a critical vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8 affecting Nexus 9000 switches with Silicon One ASICs, allowing unauthenticated root remote code execution via TCP ports 43210 and 43211. T…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city's public schools, the largest school system in the U.S., will impose a one-year moratorium on generative AI tools for students through eighth grade, th…
AI experts have raised alarms about a rumoured update to OpenAI's upcoming Astra model that could use a technique called 'opaque recurrence', potentially undermining chain-of-thought monitoring used to ensure AI safety. …
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel said in a September 2 CNBC interview that the biggest constraint on AI data center growth will be the power grid, specifically the time needed to prepare sites, not chips or capital. Abel…
Republican candidates in at least five states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, have adopted tougher rhetoric on data centers or proposed restrictions on their development, breaking from President Donald …
Sonoma County supervisors approved a settlement paying $50,000 to each of three residents and enacting regulatory reforms to end the ACLU lawsuit over drone surveillance used for code enforcement. The county admitted no …
Sam Altman warns that the massive data center buildout by 'Neocloud' providers is a supply-side gamble that risks creating stranded assets if compute costs fall faster than expected. The warning highlights a mismatch bet…
The Maharashtra Government is firming up a time-bound roadmap to expedite the development of the AI Innovation City near Navi Mumbai International Airport, being developed in partnership with the Tata Group, said Kaustub…
State lawmakers across the United States are introducing data center bills at a record pace as public backlash grows against the facilities that power AI platforms, according to the Washington Post. Legislators from both…
President Donald Trump's administration has cut federal offices and funding that protect autistic children, including the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates disability discriminati…
A new report by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-markets nonprofit, claims that the same activist network behind 'No Kings' and anti-Trump protests is now leading opposition to AI data centers and Flock surve…
New York City has banned AI in elementary and middle schools, a one-year moratorium affecting 600,000 students, according to Politico and the Associated Press. The ban applies to any software using student-facing generat…
AWS Agent Registry reached general availability on August 31, 2026, marking a shift from agent runtime to a governed catalog layer, with automated discovery via AWS Organizations and a native Model Context Protocol endpo…
ERCOT's interconnection queue holds requests for 474 gigawatts, more than five times Texas's peak demand, with roughly 90 percent attributed to data centers, prompting Governor Greg Abbott to order a freeze on new grid c…
Oconee Runtime, a new open-source project by Henry Thomas, provides policy enforcement for browser AI and coding agents, addressing the shift from prompt-based AI to agentic systems that execute actions. The runtime eval…