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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…
The UK government has rejected House of Lords proposals to bring AI vendors within the scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, with Cybersecurity Minister Baroness Lloyd of Effr…
OpenAI announced that its upcoming Astra model will be able to autonomously identify security flaws and plans to restrict access to its most advanced cybersecurity features to select partners, following a July incident i…
A federal appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction in Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity over its Comet browser, marking the first appellate ruling on whether AI agents acting for users may access online platforms…
Saudi Arabia opened its LEAP tech conference on Monday with $15 billion in planned technology investments, including a 250 MW AI data center partnership between Together AI and Saudi-backed HUMAIN expected to yield over …
On August 31, 2026, the European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the Digital Services Act, the first time a generative AI product has been regulated as a search engine, du…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it removed more than 5.61 million pieces of harmful or illegal content and deleted about 49,000 accounts in a crackdown on AI-generated 'slop' across 2,400 websites a…
OpenAI and Anthropic are balancing safety and commercial appeal ahead of potential IPOs, with OpenAI limiting the release of its Astra model due to cybersecurity concerns and Anthropic updating its Fable and Mythos model…
A security-focused product intern at a governed AI platform reported that four lessons recurred across eleven weeks of work, the most important being that guidance written as prose is not a security boundary unless enfor…
Trump administration officials at the G20 Innovation Ministerial are projecting unity on U.S. AI leadership, but the Commerce Department and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are jockeying fo…
Apple raised new concerns in a supplemental brief filed Monday in its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that a former employee's use of company secrets and AI agents to learn simulations creates irreversible a…
Frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI can now autonomously identify exploitable vulnerabilities in production software in about four hours, a task that took human researchers roughly sixty days, according to a Cyb…
Japan's Ministry of Defense has submitted a record-high budget request of ¥8.89 trillion (approximately $57 billion USD) for fiscal year 2027, focusing on modernizing its defense capabilities. Key initiatives include int…
TSMC Senior VP Jeffrey Hou said at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 that AI demand nearly doubled equipment procurement forecasts within six months, prompting TSMC to build 13 fabs in Taiwan and 5-6 overseas simultaneously, straining…
On February 18, 2026, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) released a 71-page guidance document on agentic AI and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the first formal EU supervisory authority guidance to …
The massive push to build more data centers for next-generation AI is facing local community backlash over power consumption, water usage, and rising electricity costs, prompting tech leaders to pivot toward 'green' data…