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The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model, allowing a broad launch. The decision reflects ongoing case-by-case negotiations between the government and leading AI companies over access to …
China's National Vulnerability Database warned on Wednesday that Anthropic's AI coding tool Claude Code contains a security backdoor that could transmit sensitive user data without consent. The regulator urged users to u…
Carol Vorderman called Nigel Farage a 'snake oil salesman' after the Reform UK leader resigned as an MP to trigger a by-election in Clacton, a move condemned as a 'political stunt' by Sir Keir Starmer.
Code-capable AI agents can bypass tool-level governance by finding alternative execution paths, rendering traditional MCP-based restrictions ineffective. The article argues that organizations must shift from governing to…
Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom predicts the 2026 FIFA World Cup will create a 'summer of working from home' due to late-night matches, rising commuting costs, and a heat wave. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citi a…
Reform UK's Herne Bay and Sandwich branch apologized for posting an AI-generated image of a cleaned-up fence on Facebook, calling it an 'administrative oversight.' The image, which showed inconsistencies like an extra fe…
OpenAI will publicly launch its GPT-5.6 family, including Sol, Terra, and Luna, on Thursday after a U.S. government-requested delay and additional testing. Elon Musk announced SpaceXAI will release Grok 4.5 in the coming…
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman released an ad featuring an AI-generated Gov. Kathy Hochul making exaggerated claims about her policies on crime, immigration, and taxes. The ad aims to sway voters ahead of the Nov…
At the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Indonesia's Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Meutya Hafid, speaking on behalf of President Prabowo Subianto, called for a people-centered, coll…
The fate of California's $2 billion plan to fund Medi-Cal through a tax on insurance companies now rests with Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration's Medicare and Medicaid chief. State Republicans urged Oz to reject the pl…
AI and the 'Ex-China' trend are reshaping emerging market ETFs, with investors increasingly favoring markets like India and Taiwan over China due to geopolitical risks and AI-driven demand for semiconductors.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration is fast-tracking approvals for private gas plants to power AI data centers, citing the immense energy demands of artificial intelligence development. Trump …
N8n founder Jan Oberhauser argued at the Raise Summit in Paris that companies should avoid model lock-in by using an orchestration layer that can switch between AI providers, as dependency on a single vendor could "liter…
QS CEO Jessica Turner said universities will be judged on their ability to produce adaptable graduates with human skills that cannot be automated, as artificial intelligence transforms higher education standards. QS is i…
Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The facility would serve high-frequency trading, not AI, and the government will rule on the plan…
Apple lost a major antitrust appeal in Europe on Tuesday, as the General Court of the European Union rejected all three of the company's claims challenging its designation as a 'gatekeeper' under the Digital Markets Act.…
Meta's Superintelligence Labs released Muse Image, an image generation model that uses tools like code execution and web search to refine results. The model's @-mention feature allows users to generate images of others f…
Allianz SE plans to cut 1,500 to 1,800 jobs at its travel insurance subsidiary Allianz Partners over the next 12 to 18 months, replacing call center workers with artificial intelligence. The reductions, affecting roughly…
The US government is preparing to investigate and potentially restrict American companies' use of Chinese-made AI models, citing concerns that they advance Beijing's narratives and censor dissent. The move follows a surg…
DeepSeek is designing its own AI inference chip, targeting the phase where trained models generate responses, with manufacturing partner SMIC under US export controls. The chip leverages DeepSeek's Mixture-of-Experts arc…