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The National Security Agency (NSA) is pushing for a mandatory backdoor in every AI model to enable government oversight, citing fears that sophisticated AI could automate cyberattacks or generate biological threats at sc…
A new class action lawsuit filed by Jane Doe, a survivor of child sexual abuse tracked by the FBI's Child Exploitation Notification Program, alleges that Elon Musk's xAI trained its Grok chatbot on child sexual abuse mat…
OpenAI announced it is rolling out ads in ChatGPT, starting with Free and Go plans later this month, while Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Education plans remain ad-free. Initially, ads will not be personalized, sel…
More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Perplexity, signed an open letter urging a global effort to strengthen defenses against AI-powered cyber threats, calling for increased funding and resour…
Hackers are increasingly using AI and deepfakes to breach Fijian businesses, with attack timelines shrinking from months to hours, warned Chillisoft CEO Alex Teh at the Cybersec Fiji 2026 Symposium. Teh identified ransom…
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California issued a permanent injunction against the Department of Defense, ruling that the Trump administration's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was u…
Security researcher Johann Rehberger, writing on his blog Embrace The Red, published an exploit that tricks Anthropic's Claude Code into downloading and executing malware while running in Auto Mode, succeeding 60% to 80%…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Family Friendly City Councils Act (AB 2134), authored by Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo), to ensure local elected officials can take up to 12 weeks of parental leave …
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued Aug. 21 guidance stating that agency use of artificial intelligence platforms does not automatically create federal records, with record status depending on …
A federal judge blocked the Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, ruling the decision was arbitrary and capricious. The ruling marks Anthropic's first court victory ag…
SpaceX is pressing the Federal Communications Commission to reduce a broadband subsidy program that supports rural internet providers, as the company increasingly competes for subscribers. On Wednesday, SpaceX attorneys,…
More than 100 AI and cybersecurity firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft, warned the federal government that a major cyberattack wave could hit within months as AI automates tasks once re…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, expressed interest earlier this year in locating up to 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in New South Wales, according to internal government emails obtained by ABC News…
The Register reports that Debian has voted to allow contributors to use AI in coding, with disclosure optional but quality mandatory. The decision marks a significant policy shift for the open-source project, potentially…
Citigroup's Arc platform, launched in April 2026, is the largest measured enterprise agentic AI deployment in the financial sector, with 180,000 staff across 85 countries using AI tools and 40,000 developers using Cognit…
A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, ruling that the Department of Defense unlawfully retaliated against the AI company for its criticism of military A…
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Linwei “Leon” Ding, a former Google engineer convicted by a jury in January of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets, to five years in prison, citing the scale …
Conduct, an open-source runtime governance tool for AI agents, enforces a single policy across LLM and MCP tool calls before execution, with signed configuration and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit log. The project, availab…
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump Administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk to national security was 'arbitrary and capricious' and constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of t…
John Gruber, writing on Daring Fireball, invoked the 50-year-old systems theory maxim POSIWID to argue that the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) imposes unnecessary bureaucracy on major markets, a claim that Iain Sinclair,…