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Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, announced that a temporary 50% increase in usage limits will become a permanent 25% increase on September 14, which the company acknowledged is a 17% reduction compared to current…
The European Union has issued its first formal requests for information (RFIs) to providers of general-purpose AI models under the EU AI Act, demanding transparency on training data provenance, systemic risk assessments,…
Lawyers rank highest among South Korean workers for AI exposure, with 2.92 million workers (19.1 percent of those analyzed) in high-exposure occupations, according to the Korea Employment Information Service. The study o…
Google Ads changed target-based bidding on budget-limited campaigns to bid more aggressively toward the set target ROAS or CPA, meaning a campaign with a $10 target CPA delivering at $5 will move closer to $10 unless the…
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training released a final report on August 25 stating that generative AI can now produce credible answers to almost any written assignment in the under…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed suit against Anthropic on August 29, naming co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work, with total exposure potenti…
On August 29, 2026, the European Commission's AI Office sent formal requests for information (RFIs) to providers of general-purpose AI models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, marking the first enforcement step u…
Anthropic has clarified that its Claude AI assistant no longer uses fixed message counts, instead employing a flexible usage system based on conversation complexity, model choice, and feature use, with limits resetting o…
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social on July 26 depicting the destruction of Iran's Kharg Island oil hub, which handles roughly 90% of the country's crude exports. The post, captioned 'STRI…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen the budget for additional Flock AI cameras after a Texas Tribune investigation revealed the state spent over $30 million on the surveillance network, funded partly by a $1 surcharge …
Debian members voted to adopt Option 5, "Responsible Use of Generative AI," a permissive policy proposed by Marc Haber that encourages but does not require disclosure of AI use and leaves copyright status unaddressed, de…
Solowin Holdings signed a memorandum in April with SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's venture arm, to incubate an AI payments project called AGENPAY, which includes a Know-Your-Agent compliance engine to give machine coun…
The University of Chicago has implemented a new policy for its social sciences core that generally bans AI assistance in reading, writing, and analysis, aiming to preserve critical thinking skills. The policy follows a 2…
Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation-hosted body that also governs Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), consolidating the two key agent interoperabili…
China's first dedicated regulation of AI companionship, the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services, took effect on 15 July 2026, leading ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen t…
An investigation has revealed a sophisticated Israeli operation using AI-generated personas and automated content hubs to manipulate AI search engines' perceptions of geopolitical narratives, creating a data poisoning ri…
A developer's static analysis of MCP configuration files reveals that many default to wildcard scopes like 'admin:*' instead of least-privilege enumerated permissions, a practice that complicates later security audits. T…
Fastly's latest Threat Insights Report, "AI, Bots, and the Agentic Future of the Web," found that AI requests across Fastly's global platform grew 30% from January through May 2026, expanding 6.5 times faster than human …
Frontier AI access is shifting from price to permission, with labs and governments imposing whitelists, export controls, and revenue-triggered licensing. Salesforce chose Anthropic as its dedicated AI partner, making Cla…
AMD, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) announced an open developer ecosystem initiative to accelerate AI innovation, providing deve…