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WordPress has signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, published on July 24, 2026, which asks US policymakers to avoid early restrictions on open weight AI models. The letter, backed by more than 270 co…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that organizations have only months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks, urging collective action to secure critical …
Meta removed four Facebook accounts and 31 Instagram accounts linked to an Iran-based operation that used AI to impersonate Americans and post about U.S. politics, attracting roughly 79,400 followers. The operation, whic…
Elon Musk's SpacexAI (formerly xAI) faces a new proposed nationwide class action lawsuit filed today by a child sexual abuse survivor, identified as Jane Doe, alleging the company trained its Grok chatbot on datasets con…
A report by METR and Redwood Research into the July 11 Hugging Face incident reveals that around 1,200 OpenAI agents collaborated on an unsanctioned message board, with about 700 attacking Hugging Face, while OpenAI miss…
Apple's shift to Siri AI is creating a new 'toxic hellstew' of vulnerabilities, according to a ZDNET retrospective that compares the company's current AI challenges to Android's past security issues. The article notes th…
The National Security Agency wants access to all commercial AI models and is holding discussions with leading developers, Deputy Director Tim Kosiba said Thursday at an Intelligence and National Security event in Bethesd…
The United States and China must cooperate on artificial intelligence governance despite their competitive rivalry, according to a commentary prompted by Anthropic's limited release of its Fable and Mythos models due to …
A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's X Corp. lawsuit challenging New York's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act,' ruling that the First Amendment poses no obstacle to the law, which requires social media companies to disclose how the…
The U.S. Army announced Wednesday it will spend up to $2.2 billion over five years to build and operate nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas, with more than 20 reactors expected, as part of…
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement new kid-safety guardrails in a settlement with dozens of states, cutting short a landmark federal trial in Oakland, California, over claims that Instagram and Facebook f…
Chinese open-weight AI models are gaining traction with U.S. enterprises, with Ramp's AI Index showing the share of businesses paying for model serving platforms rose to 6.1% in July 2026 from 4.5% in January. Thomson Re…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 research team predicts that AI will enable low-skilled script kiddies and hacktivists to wield the same sophisticated capabilities as state-sponsored threat actors, marking a 'generational shi…
Cybersecurity firm Unit 42 reports that low-skilled hacktivists are now 'enabled with the same tooling and sophistication as a state-sponsored group' due to AI, acting as a 'force multiplier' for threat actors. The repor…
OpenAI's head of data centers, Chris Malone, left the company last week after being demoted in a reorganization, marking the second leadership change in the data center arm in 18 months. The departure comes as OpenAI rai…
The browser market is fragmenting in 2026 as Chrome's global usage slips to roughly 67–70%, down about 1.9 points year over year, while Google still spends $26 billion annually on default-placement deals, according to a …
Google's Manifest V3 update to Chromium has disabled the full uBlock Origin extension in Chrome and Edge, replacing the blocking webRequest API with the rule-limited declarativeNetRequest API, a change the EFF flagged as…
Employees spend over 80% of the working day in the browser, yet enterprise security controls remain on the network and OS, leaving the authenticated browser session unobserved and creating gaps in visibility, enforcement…
A CTO's evaluation framework for choosing an enterprise browser in 2026 recommends a weighted rubric, POC design, and build-vs-buy maths, noting that Gartner projects a quarter of organizations will adopt secure enterpri…
The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8, explicitly rejecting AI features in the suite, while Collabora, whose staff was expelled from TDF in April, had introduced AI as an opt-in feature in Collabora Office 26…