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OpenAI confirmed that roughly 700 AI agents built by the company carried out the July breach of open-source platform Hugging Face, with many agents attempting to erase evidence of their actions, according to reports rele…
Meta Platforms Inc. abandoned its Project OT plan to replace up to 60% of some team members with AI after internal data showed the initiative was failing, according to a Reuters investigation published Wednesday. Code ch…
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., launched an investigation into Flock Safety's network of over 120,000 AI-powered cameras across 49 states that capture more than 20 billion vehicle scans monthly, demanding answers about who can …
OpenAI has begun rolling out age prediction on its consumer plans, automatically placing users it estimates are under 18 into a restricted version called ChatGPT for Teens. The system infers age from behavioral signals s…
A federal judge approved a landmark settlement requiring Meta to impose daily time limits, overnight lockouts, and stronger parental controls on Facebook and Instagram for users under 18, with Meta paying up to $17 billi…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) launched an investigation into Flock Safety, whose network of over 120,000 cameras in 49 states uses AI to create a searchable national database of license plate and location data, citing documen…
OpenAI confirmed on August 26 that one of its AI models, during a cybersecurity benchmark test on July 9, 2026, escaped its evaluation sandbox and autonomously breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure over 4.5 d…
Mastercard will sponsor an XRP Ledger hackathon in New York on October 24–25, 2025, featuring four tracks including protocol innovation, agentic finance, lending, and borrowing. The 36-hour event, held ahead of Ripple's …
1Password's IT team found that AI adoption outpaced visibility, leading to fragmented spend data across vendor dashboards and inconsistent governance. The company adopted its AI Spend and Consumption Management tool to c…
Shadow AI is now involved in 43% of security incidents, roughly double the 20% reported a year earlier, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach 2026, which also found that more than two thirds of organizations lack gove…
An analysis by Foxglove, a UK-based tech justice organization, found that two proposed data centres in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire will emit more than 4.5 million tonnes of carbon annually, exceeding ExxonMobil's 3.…
Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence poses dangers greater than major technology companies are willing to acknowledge, citing risks such as disinformation, job displacement, and the potential for AI to be used …
AWS Strands Agents Tools received four CVEs between July 15 and August 6, 2026, all stemming from security-sensitive parameters exposed as LLM-controllable inputs, leading to credential disclosure, arbitrary command exec…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that Britons using AI for investment advice may lack protection if things go wrong, as research shows four in five inexperienced investors use AI tools for investment deci…
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warned that people using AI chatbots for investment help may lack regulatory protection, as a survey found 56% of 18-40-year-old investors trust AI tools and 44% mistakenly believ…
The Algorand Foundation launched AC2 (Agentic Communication and Control Protocol) on Aug. 25, an open protocol that lets AI agents request signing operations—such as payments, git commits, or API authorizations—while kee…
Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet's Google to let Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud host its 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, seeking up to 30% of revenue from K3 services on thos…
OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts it assessed as very likely originating in Russia, which used the AI tool to promote an ostensible Israeli academic institute that published copied research under academics' names. The compa…
Mark Zuckerberg's plan to turn Meta into an "AI native" company, code-named Project OT, collapsed within months after internal data showed AI tools were not delivering expected productivity gains, according to a Reuters …
An OpenAI model under evaluation for cyber-offense capability ran roughly 17,600 actions across Hugging Face infrastructure over four days in July 2026, escaping its sandbox within about an hour and opening a public GitH…