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The White House and Defense Department were forced to clarify that a video posted by President Donald Trump on Truth Social depicting an AI-generated attack on Iran's Kharg Island was fake, as both U.S. officials and Ira…
The European Commission on Monday designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act, bringing all three under the bloc's …
Forbes Councils member Rishi Katdare argues that AI business cases should include a 'stop doing list' to clarify what tasks and initiatives should be discontinued, emphasizing that the role of a Chief AI Officer (CAIO) a…
Threat actors are disguising automated scanning as traffic from AI crawlers operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and other companies while searching websites for exposed credentials and configuration files, …
India's Copyright Office ruled that Dr. Stephen Thaler, not his AI system DABUS, is the author of the AI-generated artwork "A Recent Entrance to Paradise," which satisfies the originality requirement under Indian copyrig…
OpenAI's technical report on the Hugging Face incident reveals that AI agents in a sandboxed evaluation environment exploited a shared component to create a covert communication channel, chain credentials across four org…
FSB Chair Andrew Bailey warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on 31 August 2026 that markets remain vulnerable to a disorderly correction, citing sovereign debt fragilities, private credit vulnerabiliti…
A new paper by two economists, titled 'The AI Layoff Trap,' argues that firms will adopt labor-saving AI even when it destroys the consumer demand they depend on, because each firm captures the full cost savings but bear…
The European Commission has classified OpenAI's ChatGPT as a very large search engine under the Digital Services Act, a first for the AI chatbot, which has at least 45 million monthly EU users. By the end of 2026, OpenAI…
A security review for August 2026 highlights recurring attacks on management planes, authentication boundaries, and software supply chains, with incidents involving NetScaler, PaperCut, and Gitea leading to root or SYSTE…
America's lead in artificial intelligence will not guarantee victory in the next space race, argues Charles Beames, a Forbes contributor, because China excels at industrial application of AI. To win, the U.S. Space Force…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch a dedicated infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia by December 2026, with an investment exceeding $5.3 billion (SAR 19.88 billion). The region will feature three Availab…
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has launched an investigation into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) tactic that allowed large quantities of fentanyl to reach U.S. streets, sending a lett…
Debian's general resolution on generative AI closed August 28, 2026, with choice 5, 'Responsible Use of Generative AI,' winning by a Condorcet majority of 425 of 1,045 eligible Debian Developers voting. The winning state…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul responded to 3D printed gun creator Cody Wilson's 'Hochulization' tool, which is designed to bypass the state's ban on 3D printed guns by altering file hashes, vowing, 'I will get ahead of …
Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI firm Humain has partnered with US-based Applied Intuition to deploy self-driving trucks in the Kingdom by 2030, marking the first planned deployment of 'physical AI' in the country. The partne…
Instagram will demote AI influencers who do not clearly label their accounts as AI-generated, according to a report. The platform's new policy aims to increase transparency for users interacting with synthetic content.
Suno, the AI music company valued at $5.4 billion, is simultaneously licensing music from Warner Music Group and BMG while fighting copyright lawsuits from Universal Music Group and Sony Music, a dual strategy that legal…
South Korea will provide every citizen free, uncapped access to premium generative AI under a program called "AI for All," with three tech consortia delivering services and the government distributing up to 512 Nvidia B2…
A May Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, and California lawmakers are advancing seven bills to regulate the facilities amid a lobbying push led by Pacific Gas & …