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X said Thursday night that roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, part of a broader probe that identified 200,000 suspected Chi…
OpenAI announced on Friday that it will end Cursor's direct access to its models on November 12, following SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup, citing trust concerns over SpaceX's compliance with its t…
Debian developers voted to adopt a policy allowing the 'Responsible Use of Generative AI' in the project, rejecting a ban on AI-assisted contributions. The decision, announced after a General Resolution vote, states that…
ServiceNow disclosed three CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities in its AI Platform on August 27, 2025, including code injection (CVE-2026-18885), access control bypass (CVE-2026-18886), and SQL injection (CVE-2026-74820), all remot…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized consent orders on August 27, 2026, against Cox Media Group, MindSift LLC, and 1010 Digital Works LLC, fining them a total of $930,000 for marketing an AI-powered 'active liste…
The Federal Communications Commission's proposed rule DA 26-758 would revoke equipment authorizations and ban importation and marketing of foreign-made commercial drones labeled 'military-grade,' a move CleanTechnica arg…
Amazon's Ring announced on August 26 that it is rolling out TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption), a new default encryption system that deletes Amazon's copy of camera keys within 24 hours, with the phased rollout startin…
OpenAI announced it will terminate its partnership with Cursor, an AI code editor, following Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX, citing a conflict of interest. The decision, effective immediately, means OpenAI will no longer…
Debian's General Resolution on LLM usage, proposed by Matthias Geiger and seconded by eight Debian developers, will be voted on from August 15 to August 28, 2026, with discussion extended to August 13. The resolution off…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh used his first Jackson Hole keynote to focus on AI token economics and the end of forward guidance, omitting any mention of stablecoins or tokenization. Following the speech, Bitcoin fel…
Equifax said AI now automates 50% of its security operations center incident tickets and processes 19.8 million security alerts and scans per day, cutting code-security review times from 46 days to 18 days. The company, …
Sony Music Publishing filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic in the Northern District of California, alleging direct and contributory infringement over the use of song lyrics in AI training. The suit, f…
A new report titled 'Proof, Not Trust' warns that AI agents connected to enterprise systems can be manipulated by adversarial text, citing incidents from 2012 to 2026 including a $440M Knight Capital loss, a $25M Arup wi…
Microsoft is significantly behind its own targets for AI chip deployment, with internal documents cited by The Guardian showing 2.2 million AI chips installed, less than half of what some analysts projected. The shortfal…
On August 4, 2026, a malicious commit to the npm package 'keyv' triggered a supply-chain worm that compromised over 400 packages (Elastic) or over 1,300 package versions (Singapore's CSA), totaling more than a billion or…
Denmark's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, is coordinating implementation of the European Union's AI Act, which is now in effect, alongside the country's national AI strategy that emphasizes trustworthy AI framew…
A new analysis argues that AI agents should ask before irreversible actions and act first for reversible ones, citing AWS's documentation that its Kiro agent's ask-first mode is 'a code review workflow, not a security co…
Anthropic reported on July 24, 2026 that it removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for its newest models with no measurable loss on its coding evaluations, but an independent re-measurement by Pawel Huryn on Jul…
Nine of ten paid AI coding plans reviewed changed a published usage limit at least once in 2026, with 38 dated changes between February 13 and August 29, 2026, according to a ledger compiled by an unnamed writer. The sha…
X, the social media platform, said it uncovered a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts, including 200 that posted content aimed at manipulating U.S. debate on AI and energy policy, attributing the operation to susp…