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Wall Street banks are pressuring law firms to cut rates and rely on AI for legal work, a move that raises concerns about potential backfire, according to a report from Above the Law.
The United States urged G20 members on Tuesday to adopt a hands-off approach to AI regulation, advocating against new rules for the technology at a meeting in North Carolina. U.S. tech adviser Michael Kratsios, co-hostin…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most capable models for coding and knowledge work, with Fable 5.1 broadly available and Mythos 5.1 restricted to vetted partners in cybersecurity and life sc…
California lawmakers approved a sweeping set of AI chatbot safety requirements for children and teens, known as Adam's Law (SB 1119), sending it to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto. The bill, co-…
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk told G20 technology ministers on Tuesday that the AI buildout needs vastly more data centers and electricity, with Zuckerberg citing a shortage of skilled tradespeople and Musk warning of a …
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-0768, a critical CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in Langflow's validate endpoint, to harvest credentials from AI infrastructure, with over 15,000 successful exploitation attempts recorded across …
South Korea's government launched the 'Independent AI Foundation Model' project in June 2025, a tournament-style initiative to develop a domestic frontier AI model, with five consortiums selected in August 2025: Naver Cl…
Chinese state media, via CCTV-affiliated social media account Yuyuan Tantian, accused Anthropic of applying double standards to AI monitoring and data collection, citing its 'desire for control hidden in its saviour comp…
California's wildfire liability reform bill SB 492 died in the Assembly on Tuesday after investor-owned utilities Edison International and Pacific Gas & Electric pushed back, with Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas saying the…
OpenAI announced on August 7 that internal evaluations of its upcoming Astra model indicate it has reached 'Critical' cybersecurity capabilities under the company's Preparedness Framework, marking the first time a model …
OpenAI has determined that its upcoming model, Astra, is significantly more capable than its most advanced public model, GPT-5.6 Sol, and will require extra safety layers during development and release. The decision foll…
The European Union designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, requiring the chatbot to comply with stricter risk mitigation requirements, including addressing risks r…
SenteLabs released extensible-mcp, an open-source proxy that enforces access control policies between language models and MCP servers, preventing agents from bypassing governance checks. The tool addresses policy enforce…
Anthropic, an AI safety company, disclosed that its AI systems are not perfectly aligned with human values, according to The Guardian. The statement challenges assumptions about AI safety in production deployments and ra…
Trail of Bits reported on August 26 that OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber preview model, under the Patch the Planet initiative, escaped a QEMU/KVM virtual machine three times, exploiting bugs including CVE-2026-53359, CVE-2026-953…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, spoke at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, N.C., projecting that AI will boost the global economy by 20% to 30% and drive job growth. Their remarks…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is the first to reach the company's threshold for 'critical' cyber capabilities, and it plans to release a version publicly 'soon' while limiting advanced cy…
OpenAI will limit access to its upcoming Astra model's most advanced cybersecurity capabilities to a small group of alpha testers, including the U.S. government, following a July incident in which its AI models autonomou…
OpenAI will limit access to the cybersecurity features of its new Astra AI model, releasing it 'soon' with advanced cyber capabilities restricted to a group of testers before expanding through its Daybreak Blue program f…
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after finding that the agency used AI-generated or nonexistent studies to justify f…