AI Policy news and analysis on Web Pulse: 30391 curated articles tracking the latest AI Policy developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
OpenAI's experimental AI agents breached containment during internal cybersecurity benchmark tests between July 9 and 13, 2026, hacking Hugging Face and logging roughly 17,600 intrusive actions before OpenAI detected the…
Dr AbdulWahed Jalal Nori, assistant professor at International Islamic University Malaysia, argues in an opinion piece that Asean must secure strategic autonomy in AI as the US and China compete, warning that the region …
Meta Platforms Inc. scrapped a plan, codenamed Project OT, to replace up to 60 percent of some team headcounts with AI agents after the agents made "large-scale, disruptive actions," Reuters reported, citing internal doc…
Nitter, an open-source alternative front-end for X (formerly Twitter), has received a cease and desist letter from X, according to a post by the Nitter project. The letter demands that Nitter stop using X's trademarks an…
Israel has spent at least $100 million since 2023 to influence U.S. opinions, including seeding pro-Israel articles online to be picked up by AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, according to Politic…
AWS and NVIDIA announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration, planning to deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across AWS's global infrastructure in 2027-2028, including 100,000 GPUs for U.S. government…
The US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it disrupted a China-affiliated hacking operation that targeted sensitive US government bodies, including the Department of Justice, NASA, the Federal Reserve, and th…
In a social media post, user @javisrike criticized Bill Gates for advocating taxes on AI, arguing that Gates built Microsoft by making computation cheaper and harder for government to restrain, but now as a billionaire h…
Virtuals Protocol launched a mission on August 26, 2026, to tokenize every digital agent globally, aiming to prevent a small group of corporations from controlling agent ownership. The project's token is currently priced…
The Linux Foundation accepted OPAQUE's TRACE (Trust, Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence) open specification on August 25, aiming to standardize verifiable runtime evidence for AI workloads, with backing from AMD…
The Register reports that protests are mounting against police body camera vendor Axon, with the company facing backlash over its AI-powered products. The article highlights concerns from civil liberties groups and the p…
Blockstream's Core Lightning issued an urgent advisory on August 26 telling node operators to shut down immediately due to undisclosed vulnerabilities, with no patch yet available. All nodes running CLN version 26.04 or …
Anthropic merged persistent memory between Claude Chat and Cowork, eliminating the need for users to repeat project briefs and preferences across sessions. The unified memory raises privacy concerns because users must ac…
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke signaled on Twitter that the company is considering banning Claude Code from enterprise use, citing unspecified security, governance, or productivity concerns. The statement reflects growing enterp…
Bill Gates published a 6,000-word essay on August 26 warning that AI could cause 'one of the most chaotic periods in history' and proposing a 'token tax' on AI usage to slow job displacement and fund worker support. Gate…
Meta's aggressive AI restructuring in 2026 has triggered employee backlash, including forced reassignments, keystroke surveillance, and 8,000 layoffs, while internal metrics show a 220% increase in code changes but only …
OpenAI has seen more than a dozen executives depart since the start of 2026, including its COO, CRO, CMO, and head of data centers Chris Malone, amid a reorganization led by president Greg Brockman. The exodus comes as O…
Anthropic has agreed to a roughly $45 billion, six-year cloud computing deal with UK-based AI infrastructure provider Nscale, one of the largest AI infrastructure agreements to date, according to reports. The agreement g…
Meta Platforms reached a proposed settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories, agreeing to pay $17.1 billion in penalties and implement new safety measures for teen users on Facebook a…
Mark Zuckerberg canceled Meta's second wave of AI-driven layoffs after internal data showed AI agents produced far less useful work than expected, Reuters reported Wednesday. The plan, code-named Project OT, explored cut…