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Anthropic published a playbook for the AI-native software development lifecycle (SDLC), detailing how agents produce artifacts from intent files to production with governance as code, and it assigns platform engineering …
US forces at the southern border used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser, built by AeroVironment, to shoot down three cartel-linked drones this week, the military said Thursday. The engagements, which began late Tue…
A June Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only 14% of Americans would support a data center being built in their community, and on July 18, organizers held 142 protests across 42 states in the first nationwide protest against…
A federal judge ruled on August 27 that the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk was unlawful and retaliatory, restoring the AI company's ability to compete for federal…
The Register reports that 100+ tech giants have warned that AI attacks are coming, but have skipped the part where they pay for defenses, highlighting the industry's role in creating the problem and selling solutions. Th…
The Model Constitution project argues against public drafting of AI constitutions, citing the complexity and novelty of such documents, and instead proposes a model constitution drafted by experts that can be refined thr…
The Federal Trade Commission voted on December 22, 2025, to reopen and set aside its 2024 consent order against Rytr LLC, narrowing the means-and-instrumentalities theory of liability for AI tool providers. The Commissio…
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance, an initiative announced by NVIDIA with partners across cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, open source foundations, and AI rese…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT selected SK Telecom, Kakao, and KT to build government-backed AI services under the 'AI for Everyone' project, providing free, unlimited access to general-purpose AI chatbots and…
Amazon Web Services will permanently shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, 2026, after 21 years of operation, giving workers and businesses a little more than a month to transition away from the platform. The clo…
Debian's 1,039 active developers are voting today on eight proposals for AI-assisted contributions, with the ballot closing at 23:59 UTC; the outcome will be the first binding LLM policy at a major Linux distribution, af…
Google DeepMind is piloting a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time, using cryptographic protection through Confidential Space to prevent Google from seeing test questions and evaluators from …
Uzbekistan has formally requested to join the U.S.-led Pax Silica AI initiative, according to Ambassador Furqat Sidikov, who said Tashkent notified the U.S. State Department in a diplomatic note last week. The move comes…
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has updated its Charts Code of Practice to require eligible recordings to be 'substantially human made,' banning fully AI-generated songs from its music charts effecti…
A class-action lawsuit filed on 26 August 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Elon Musk's xAI of training its Grok image generation models on confirmed child sexual abuse mater…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's secret plan to replace thousands of human staffers with AI agents, codenamed Project Organization Transformation, backfired after the company laid off roughly 8,000 people in May, triggering la…
Frontier AI models can now discover and weaponize software flaws in hours, making manual patch cycles obsolete, according to data from zerodayclock.com showing mean time-to-exploitation (TTE) for 3,500+ confirmed-exploit…
A class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday, 26 August, accuses Elon Musk's xAI of using real child sexual abuse material to train Grok's image and video generation capabilities, enab…
A federal judge in California ruled Thursday evening that the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal, calling it 'unlawful retaliation' in violation of the First Amendment and …
A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of AI company Anthropic, ruling that the designation violated First Amendment rights and was based on retaliation. The ruling comes as Anthropic faces a separate le…