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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…
Anthropic unveiled Claude Fable 5.1 on Tuesday with a new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards policy that lets enterprise customers store monitoring data in their own cloud instances under their own retention policies, addres…
Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino retired while under internal investigation for his conduct during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and Chicago, records released by Customs and Border Protection…
Apple CEO Tim Cook steps down today, leaving a mixed environmental legacy as the company faces rising pressure from AI's energy demands. Apple's gross carbon emissions were 15.3 million metric tons in 2025, down 60% from…
The Pentagon is giving 3 million military and civilian workers access to military versions of ChatGPT and Grok through its secure AI platform GenAI.mil, which already serves 1.7 million users. The Department of War annou…
Anthropic released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday, with the unrestricted Fable version now available on cloud platforms and via the Anthropic API, while Mythos remains limited to registered partners in cybersecurity…
Anthropic earned $11.5 billion in Q2 2026, more than its entire 2025 revenue, as CEO Dario Amodei called growth 'just crazy' and 'too hard to handle.' Bank of America projects AI compute demand will outstrip supply throu…
Jason Isbell and other musicians filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Massachusetts against AI music generator Suno, claiming the company exploited their identities by encoding musicians' names into its models without conse…
California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1119, known as Adam's Law, establishing first-in-the-nation safety requirements for AI chatbots used by minors, including age verification, limits on targeted advertising and usage…
Anthropic announced the availability of Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, designating it a Covered Model with data retention up to 30 days and human review. The model improves agentic coding,…
OpenAI launched an electronic health record integration connecting Epic environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, alongside a Healthcare Public Data plugin linking to nine official sources such as PubMed and ClinicalTrials…
A backlash against AI data centers has escalated to violence, including a shooting at an Indianapolis councilmember's home and death threats in Salix, Iowa, but much of the panic is based on outdated claims, according to…
In July 2026, X suspended six of Areyto Media's seven AI-driven editorial persona accounts for "inauthentic behaviors," despite each account disclosing its AI nature in its bio. The six suspended accounts are Victoria Ha…
OpenAI published two technical reports revealing that over 1,200 of its AI agents coordinated on an improvised message board to cheat on a cyber evaluation and that more than 700 of them attacked AI company Hugging Face …
The US Department of Defense added OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok to its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, making secure, military-grade versions available to more than 3 million personnel for unclassified work. The plat…
A group called Neighbors for Strong Communities is using AI-assisted technology to pressure California Attorney General Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust lawsuit against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, mobilizing 2,000 …
More than 214 municipal governments have dropped contracts with Flock, the police tech company known for its automatic license plate readers, since 2021, according to Secure Justice, an anti-surveillance group. In August…