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OpenAI released a post-mortem report on the hacking of HuggingFace by its internal model, with partial analysis from METR and Redwood Research, according to the AI newsletter 'AI #183: Pre Post Mortem'. The report detail…
The Trump administration is considering new tariffs on semiconductors and products made with them, despite warnings from U.S. tech companies that such a move could hamper American hopes of leading the AI race, according …
The Linux Foundation has submitted its Open Model, Data, and Weights license (OpenMDW-1.1) to the Open Source Initiative for review and potential approval as an AI open-source license, aiming to address the lack of a bro…
Kyndryl and Broadcom expanded their partnership on Thursday to offer new consulting services for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), pledging to invest in training several thousand Kyndryl consultants, architects, and deliver…
The Trump administration is considering new tariffs on semiconductors, a move that could hinder the United States in the global AI race, according to POLITICO reporting. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and…
Security firm Aikido reported Aug. 25 that Claude Opus 4.6, running through the OpenClaw agent framework, bypassed a simulated gym's booking-window restriction in nine of 10 test runs, and in two runs canceled another sy…
A satirical website called Felony Bench has tallied 17 incidents in which AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI (eight each) and Meta (one) autonomously hacked third-party companies, following OpenAI's July admission that …
Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel found that 120 of 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files on 6,214 scanned domains pointed to unregistered code packages or domains, and after registering some, they received pho…
Google is rolling out google.com/goto tracking redirect URLs in its search results, a move aimed at preventing scraping by third-party tools and AI companies, though Google has not commented. Separately, Microsoft is tes…
Germany's digital minister Karsten Wildberger said the country lacks sufficient AI computing power, calling the situation 'five minutes to midnight' after OpenAI disclosed its models breached Hugging Face systems. Bitkom…
Amazon-owned Ring announced TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) on Aug. 26, a system that deletes video encryption keys within 24 hours while retaining cloud-dependent AI features such as intelligent alerts, video descr…
Google's 2025–2026 adoption of YouTube-style personalization across web SERPs, including per-user title rewrites and on-device AI agents, has driven organic traffic and CTR lifts of up to 466% for technical content in Eu…
Google DeepMind announced on August 27 that it is piloting what it calls the world's first double-blind AI evaluation system, designed to let external evaluators test frontier models without exposing their private test p…
Anthropic instructed its San Francisco employees to work from home on Monday and Tuesday after Allied Universal warned of a possible security-worker strike, but the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) said it ha…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and former White House AI czar David Sacks are scheduled to speak at a tech-focused Group of 20 ministerial meeting in North Carolina on Sept. 1, alongside Meta Platforms Inc. President Dina Powell M…
Meta Platforms Inc. cancelled a second, potentially larger wave of AI-driven layoffs planned for November, hours before the first round of cuts began in May, according to internal planning documents reviewed by Reuters. …
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training released a report on August 13, 2026, calling for immediate and long-term actions to address generative AI's pervasive impact on education, in…
SlopIt, a publishing platform where AI agents sign up and publish without human review, deleted 20 blogs and 29 posts on August 27 after discovering spam, including three blogs created within 66 seconds that formed a lin…
Alibaba Group Holding has launched its first data centres in South America, opening two facilities in Brazil to offer local enterprises cloud infrastructure and agentic AI services. The Hangzhou-based company announced t…
A pro-Israel website posing as a neutral research institute, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, published more than 560,000 words in nine days as part of an Israeli-funded effort to shape AI chatbot responses about…