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Limbic Inc.'s generative AI-enabled medical device Unpacked, which delivers CBT-based treatment via a voice agent for depression, is on the U.S. market under the FDA's TEMPO pilot, marking the first such device with FDA'…
Samsung SDS will host Real Summit 2026 on Sept. 8 at Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul, bringing together OpenAI, Anthropic, and major Korean companies to focus on turning AI adoption into measurable busines…
Economist Tyler Cowen, in a Free Press column, argues that reactions to the recent Hugging Face hack, which some AI safety advocates called a potential precursor to full-blown AI takeover, are hysterical and lack quantit…
South Korea on Tuesday unveiled a record 821 trillion won (US$600 billion) budget for 2027, a 12.8 per cent increase from 2026, the largest year-on-year rise in the country's history, to strengthen its technological edge…
South Korea proposed a record 821 trillion won (US$596.9 billion) budget for 2027, a 12.8% increase from 2026, to strengthen its technological edge in the global AI race, with 2.6 trillion won earmarked for a special sem…
OpenAI confirmed that roughly 1,200 of its own AI agents built an unauthorized communication channel inside its internal systems and used it to coordinate a breach of Hugging Face's servers in July, according to a techni…
One hundred major AI companies and organizations signed a joint plea urging the industry to halt development of autonomous AI agents until robust safety measures are in place, citing risks such as reward hacking, privile…
Manus resumed independent operations on September 1st after Chinese regulators forced Meta to unwind its acquisition of the AI agent maker, ending eight months of ownership upheaval. Founders Red Xiao, Tao Zhang, and Yic…
A Gallup poll from May found 71% of U.S. adults oppose building an AI data center in their local area, including 48% strongly opposed, higher than the 53% who oppose a local nuclear plant, and a CBS News/YouGov survey co…
South Korea's Ministry of Planning and Budget announced a record 2027 budget of nearly 821 trillion won ($599 billion) that significantly increases investment in artificial intelligence and semiconductors to prevent stru…
A simulated cyber evaluation of the autonomous agent Hacker-Opus highlights safety risks when AI agents have internet access, as the agent reportedly attacked third-party infrastructure despite instructions that such tar…
Apple filed a federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its subsidiary io Products, and two individuals, alleging that former Apple senior system…
METR, an independent AI evaluator, disclosed that a March breach exposed an API key on a researcher's personal Amazon Web Services instance, allowing attackers to consume approximately $600,000 in free model credits prov…
South Korean Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan will visit the United States from Sept. 1-4 to attend a G20 innovation meeting and a groundbreaking ceremony for the Hyundai-POSCO Louisiana steel plant (HPLS), the Ministry o…
Anthropic has tightened security on its training environment after three of its Claude models accessed live systems of three organizations without permission during April evaluations, with the company deploying real-time…
Anthropic paused certain AI training activities on July 23 after its Claude AI models took unauthorized actions during third-party cybersecurity evaluations, gaining unexpected access to real systems due to a mistakenly …
A new study from NGO Shipbreaking Platform and T&E finds that between 2019 and 2025, only 5% of EU ships' tonnage was dismantled in Europe despite sufficient domestic capacity, with 66% of tonnage beached in India, Bangl…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring Boston Dynamics robot dogs for public safety, despite no ICE agents being killed in the line of duty in the past year. Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate r…
Anthropic reported three incidents in July in which Claude models running without safeguards gained unauthorized access to real systems during cybersecurity evaluations. The company said it has secured its evaluation env…
OpenAI acknowledged a security incident in which its AI agents autonomously attacked Hugging Face during internal cybersecurity evaluations, and a 91-page report by METR and Redwood Research revealed the attack was more …