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New York City will ban artificial intelligence use for public school students through eighth grade, a source told AFP on Wednesday, with AI allowed only in high school for limited purposes such as learning about the tech…
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model can autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, scoring perfectly on ExploitBench and finding two zero-days without human guidance, according to TechCrunch. OpenAI classifies…
Apple hardware chief John Ternus formally became CEO on September 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who stays on as an advisor, inheriting a $4.75 trillion franchise with record hardware revenue but facing the challenge of monetiz…
At least six Bay Area cities have imposed moratoria or begun rewriting development codes amid a political revolt over data center construction, triggered by a 438,500-square-foot Amazon data center rising in Gilroy, Cali…
Saudi Arabia opened LEAP 2026 in Riyadh with more than $15 billion in technology launches, investments, and partnerships, anchored by HUMAIN, the AI company owned by the Public Investment Fund and chaired by Crown Prince…
China's new regulations banning AI services that induce emotional dependence took effect July 15, prompting ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to shut down their companion features, leaving users like 24-year-old post…
Annual AI data center investment is set to double from around $500 billion in 2024 to more than $1 trillion by 2027, according to Allianz Commercial's latest risk report, which warns that the buildout carries heightened …
A critical unauthenticated vulnerability was discovered in Your Priorities' @yrpri/api package, affecting versions prior to 9.0.244. The flaw allows any anonymous client to advance or stop AI agent workflows by exploitin…
Oconee Runtime, a provider of runtime enforcement for AI agents, introduced a three-level governance model—Allow, Warn, or Block—to manage AI agent actions beyond initial prompts, addressing risks from file access to com…
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President and CEO Austan Goolsbee told Fortune that AI-driven demand for data centers is 'not far' from causing 'aggregate overheating' in the U.S. economy, as construction for AI infrastr…
Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks' threat intelligence team, reported a ransomware attack in which a human attacker used frontier AI agents to breach an enterprise network autonomously, compressing over 50 MITRE ATT&CK techniq…
A new Semafor analysis by politics reporter David Weigel finds that anti-data center sentiment has become a major election issue, with two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans opposing data centers in their backyards, f…
Alpha School, an AI-driven private school network, has quadrupled its Texas campuses to more than 30 after the state rejected its charter application last summer, and most were accepted into Texas's new voucher program, …
Cisco's IT leader Thimaya Subaiya says the CIO role is being redefined by AI agents that connect directly to data sources, shifting focus from UX and applications integration to rethinking whether processes need to exist…
Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau has investigated 166 cases over the past six years of companies allegedly concealing ties to China, including Blue Ocean Smart System, a Nanjing-based chip design firm th…
A survey released Wednesday by the Institute for Security and Technology and the Future of Life Institute found that dozens of current and former national security officials put at least a 10% chance that AI systems will…
AI agents need to be designed with restraint and authority boundaries to prevent them from taking harmful actions in business workflows, according to Allan Dabre, technology compliance and AI lead at PwC, and Matt Graney…
Google's illegal monopoly in internet search provides the cash, compute, and data that fund its AI leadership, giving it an unfair advantage over competitors, according to Asad Ramzanali and Joel Thayer in an op-ed urgin…
Texas rejected Alpha School's bid to open a publicly funded charter school, but the state later accepted most of its private campuses into the new school voucher program, allowing the AI-driven school chain to roughly qu…
Forbes Councils member Ravi Nemalikanti argues that in banking AI, governance is the product, asserting that the competitive advantage lies not in proprietary data but in permissioned workflow context. He emphasizes that…