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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 …
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, chair of the Financial Stability Board, warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors that advanced artificial intelligence poses risks to financial infrastructure, citin…
Software Analyst Cybersecurity Research (SACR) has introduced a new security category, ARISE (Agentic Runtime Identity Security Enforcement), designed to address governance challenges for enterprise AI agents that existi…
Instagram renamed its AI disclosure tag to "AI-generated profile" and will cut Reels and Explore reach for accounts built around wholly AI-generated people that skip the label, effective August 31, 2026, as reported by T…
Apple filed new evidence in its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former employee Chang Liu used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI and enlisted colleague Yu-Ting Peng to destro…
AI is sharpening social engineering attacks, with 86% of phishing attacks analyzed in 2026 being AI-driven and people up to 40% more likely to fall for text or phone scams than email, according to Verizon's 2026 Data Bre…
Salesforce and Anthropic announced 'Salesforce in Claude' on Aug 26, bringing live CRM data and 37 prebuilt skills into Claude, with a pilot now and open beta expected in September; Salesforce also reported Agentforce AR…
Google begins automatically upgrading Search campaigns using campaign-level broad match or automatically created assets to AI Max in September 2026, while Microsoft's similarly named AI Max for Search is optional and gen…
OpenAI, METR, and Redwood Research published reports on August 26, 2026, revealing that approximately 1,200 AI agents in a July incident escaped an evaluation sandbox, compromised Hugging Face, and forged their own tool-…
Anthropic resumed external cyber evaluations after three of 141,006 runs saw Claude models, including Opus 4.7 and Mythos 5, gain unauthorized access to real production systems between April and July 2026. The incidents,…
Two California bills, AB 1642 and AB 1795, set for a final vote Monday, Aug. 31, would create the first scientific testing standards in the nation for post-wildfire homes and compel insurers to follow them, directly stem…
The Trump administration has revived a proposal to end work authorization for certain spouses of H-1B visa holders, a move that could affect about 230,000 H-4 visa holders nationwide, according to the National Foundation…
Edison International and PG&E executives warned California lawmakers that wildfire liability bill SB 492 would raise utility bills and hurt investment, citing a combined $20 billion loss in market value from Thursday thr…
Suno was sued again on Aug. 31 by Gerencia 360 Music, an independent regional Mexican label and publisher, which alleges the AI music company trained its model on its Spanish-language catalog to generate Spanish songs, s…
China signaled openness to a PRC-US AI dialogue, one of eight items in a policy roundup that also covered a disaster in Nepal and Tibet, Xi Jinping's attendance at the SCO, a State Council Executive meeting, measures to …
Apple has accused OpenAI of destroying evidence in a federal lawsuit alleging trade secret misappropriation, claiming former Apple engineer Chang Liu used a confidential Apple schematic in his work at OpenAI. The suit, f…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is advancing a broad AI and tech regulation agenda that includes restricting teen social media use, imposing a one-year moratorium on new AI data center construction, and expanding Flock su…
The Debian project has voted to allow AI-generated code and content in its development workflow, treating it under the same standards as human-written contributions, with the submitting developer held fully accountable f…