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Tencent released a preview of a new open-source AI model on Friday, targeting software engineering, research, and financial analysis tasks, and made it available on Hugging Face. The company did not disclose the model's …
South Korea announced an 'AI for All' initiative providing every citizen with free access to AI services, marking a national push to democratize artificial intelligence. The program, reported by The Wall Street Journal, …
More than 100 technology companies, including major AI developers, have signed a statement warning that AI attacks are imminent, but they have not committed to paying for defensive measures, according to a report from Th…
More than 100 major companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google-parent Alphabet, and Amazon, have signed an open letter warning that AI-powered cyber attacks pose an imminent threat to critical infrastructu…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly disagreed with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' proposal to tax AI tokens and automated systems, arguing that AI will create more jobs than it destroys. Gates published his essay on Augus…
Google's Android 17 introduces Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) by default for compatible apps, preventing network operators from seeing visited domains, alongside Local Network Protection, Certificate Transparency, and auto…
Howard High, a veteran and former president of the Japanese American Citizens League, argues that President Trump's executive order barring birthright citizenship for children of 'alien enemies' is unconstitutional and h…
The largest planned AI datacenter in New Jersey, DataOne in Vineland, is accused of violating federal law after thermal drone footage showed at least 45 of its 62 gas-powered generators operating without permits. Former …
A balanced assessment of current data shows it is too early to know whether AI has boosted economy-wide productivity, according to Chad Syverson, George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Univers…
A Russian AI-enabled drone reportedly selected its own target in Ukraine, killing three civilians, marking the first known case of an autonomous weapon making a lethal choice without direct human intervention. The global…
Amnezia released AmneziaWG v3, an open-source self-hosted VPN protocol, in response to a large-scale coordinated attack from Russian authorities that revealed a shift in how VPN infrastructure is detected and blocked. Th…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he is 'in favor of taxes' but disagrees with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' proposal to tax robots and AI tokens, arguing that AI will be a 'net job creator' and that more productive compan…
A new report argues that enterprises must rebuild their data infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, which lack the human judgment to detect bad data, and outlines a five-layer stack including trusted data, context, acc…
A WIRED reporter filed more than 100 data access requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act and found that some companies, including Crunchbase and BeenVerified, responded with deletion notices instead of the req…
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic for refusing to let the military use its Claude LLM for mass surveillance and lethal autonomous warfare, granting summary judgmen…
A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that the government must provide concrete technical evidence of supply chain risk rather than vague national security warnings. The decision se…
Major shortages of qualified IT professionals, especially in AI, cybersecurity, and data science, will lead to huge competitive challenges for organizations that fail to prioritize tech recruiting over the next couple of…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro both pivoted against data center development in the same week, with Abbott saying the industry 'dug their own grave' and Shapiro signing an executive orde…
A senior incident responder outlines a practical hour-by-hour playbook for the first 24 hours of an AI agent security incident, citing Anthropic's GTG-1002 campaign, Microsoft 365 Copilot's EchoLeak flaw (CVSS 9.3), and …
A new report warns that 'shadow agents'—unauthorized AI agents deployed by employees without IT approval—are exacerbating the old shadow IT problem, as these agents can autonomously access and act on data with little ove…