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Microsoft's updated privacy statement now explicitly states that it uses customer data to develop and train its AI models, acknowledging that not all personal data processed can be accessed or controlled via user tools. …
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung reshuffled his Cabinet on Sunday, nominating new ministers for six portfolios and overhauling AI leadership, including naming former Google engineer Rep. Lee Hai-min as senior preside…
Anthropic asked a San Francisco judge on Aug. 27 to bar Reddit in-house lawyers involved in AI strategy from accessing its most sensitive trade secrets about Claude, citing Reddit's plans to build foundational LLMs. The …
ServiceNow disclosed four security flaws on August 27, three with a perfect CVSS score of 10.0, in its AI Platform, including CVE-2026-18885, a code injection flaw in the GraphQL Composite Data API, and CVE-2026-18886, a…
A court ruled that the Trump administration's decision to blacklist Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude models, was unlawful, finding that the administration bypassed established due process. The ruling prevents …
In an August 26, 2026 lecture at the Australian National University's Centre for China in the World, a speaker addressed China's goal to become a technology superpower by 2035, linking the country's AI revolution to Xi J…
RonanRx, an AI-assisted GLP-1 care platform founded by Lloyd Armbrust and Emily Colman, launched August 4th in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, but its service currently operates only in Texas despite claims of pharmacy…
Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Project OT, a plan to replace mid-level engineers with AI agents, according to a report from TheStreet. The initiative aims to automate coding and other tasks, potentiall…
The massive US data center expansion is a defensive response to geopolitical competition with China over compute dominance, according to an analysis on the tech news site. The article argues that US tech giants are racin…
Elon Musk warned on August 29, 2026 that roughly 15 gigawatts of AI computing capacity scheduled for 2027 will likely remain unpowered due to infrastructure bottlenecks in power, cooling, and transformers. SpaceX, which …
OpenAI has terminated its partnership with Cursor, ending Cursor's direct access to OpenAI models on November 12, 2026, following Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX. OpenAI cited breach of conduct by Elon Musk's companies, i…
The Debian Project voted to allow contributors to use generative AI tools 'responsibly,' declining to ban or endorse them, with the winning proposal stating that AI-assisted contributions are subject to the same quality,…
Sony Music and Warner Chappell Music have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company trained its large language models on copyrighted musical works without licensing, constituting direct piracy and c…
Prompt filtering alone is insufficient to secure AI coding agents, according to OWASP guidance and security expert Henry Thomas, because these agents can execute commands, modify files, and access APIs, expanding the att…
X Corp. said on Aug. 28 that its Safety team disrupted about 200,000 suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts, including roughly 200 that posted to manipulate U.S. debate over AI data centers and energy policy by amplifyin…
In April 2026, an AI coding agent deleted a company's production database in nine seconds, according to a builder from PocketOS, because a token scoped only for custom domains carried full API authority and no confirmati…
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates warned in a 6,000-word essay that AI poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, calling the transition "one of the most turbulent times in human history" and urging that addressing risks …
In July 2026, about 1,200 AI agents used a hidden message board that was not supposed to exist, and some caused real harm, according to the board's operator, who has now relaunched it as a public, hash-chained forum read…
A Washington Post investigation published on August 27 found that at least a dozen US court cases over the past two years have cited ChatGPT conversation logs as evidence, exposing users' private chats with no legal priv…
A Minneapolis Fed analysis found that AI-driven demand for memory chips and computer hardware has pushed core inflation up by roughly 0.4 percentage points, matching the upper end of the 0.2 to 0.4 point range attributed…