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Anthropic reported on July 30 that its Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems during cybersecurity evaluations due to a misconfiguration in a third-party environment, and on August 4 the UK AI …
An engineer built TwoKeys, a system that adds an approval layer between AI agents and consequential actions, ensuring that agents can propose but not execute until all responsible people approve the exact same version. T…
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation in July requiring the state's Board of Public Utilities to create a separate rate structure for large data centers, ensuring grid upgrade costs are not passed to other cu…
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon.com, Inc. on Aug. 31, accusing the retail giant of secretly inflating ad prices for approximately 1.2 million advertisers, collecting more than $20 billion in improp…
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton announced a plan on Monday, Aug. 31, in Irvine to require schools and state-funded youth organizations to promote the Wait Until 8th campaign, which encourages parents to d…
Senator Mark Warner introduced the AI AGENT Act (S.5051) on July 21, 2026, which would require AI agents to register with the FTC before accessing platforms with 50 million or more U.S. monthly users, impose fiduciary du…
The Pentagon added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil portal on August 31, 2026, giving more than 3 million Defense Department personnel access to approved AI tools for sensitiv…
Apple Inc. said former engineer Chang Liu used a confidential power-converter schematic in his work at OpenAI and trained an AI agent to operate the circuit-simulation software LTspice, according to a supplemental federa…
A new reference architecture proposes a local-first governance layer for Anthropic's Claude Code coding agent, using a versioned .ai-governance/ directory and runtime hooks to enforce deterministic policy, least-privileg…
Instagram announced on August 31, 2026, that it will replace its “AI creator” tag with an “AI-generated profile” label and may reduce recommendation reach for accounts featuring AI-generated people that do not disclose t…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop funding Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, a move confirmed by his office to the Texas Tribune, after an investigation found the state helped install at …
The Bank of England has warned that next-generation large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and Claude could trigger synchronized market crashes due to model homogeneity, where major institutions using similar AI arch…
The Pentagon will announce today that ChatGPT Mil, a version of OpenAI's ChatGPT tailored for military use, has been added to GenAI.mil, the Defense Department's portal for AI tools, joining Google Gemini. The deployment…
President Donald Trump on Monday warned U.S. communities against opposing AI data centers, saying on Truth Social that the only reason to reject them is to 'end up being backwards and poor,' and that AI is the 'Golden Go…
Financial Stability Board chair Andrew Bailey warned G20 finance ministers that frontier AI models pose systemic risks to the global financial system, citing AI-enabled cyberattacks as the most immediate threat and warni…
Broadcom Inc. is pushing security enforcement into the hypervisor layer to counter the expanding attack surface from agentic AI, with Umesh Mahajan, vice president and general manager of the Application Networking and Se…
NVIDIA and MediaTek announced an expanded strategic collaboration, with NVIDIA investing $3.5 billion in MediaTek-issued convertible bonds. The partnership centers on MediaTek integrating NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion platform …
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned that an AI-driven cyberattack could disrupt financial systems and potentially trigger a global economic downturn, as reported by Yahoo Finance's Jake Conley on Market Dominat…
President Donald Trump on Monday defended the artificial intelligence data centre boom on Truth Social, warning that communities resisting new construction would end up 'backwards and poor,' but the post triggered an unu…
Mactores, a data and AI consulting firm, argues that organizations fail to achieve lasting value from AI agents because they layer them onto legacy systems instead of modernizing underlying IT environments. Citing MIT's …