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China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that expand domestic platform regulation and add legal countermeasures to protect Chinese companies like Temu and Shein facing ta…
Agentic AI applications that autonomously invoke tools and APIs introduce a fundamentally different security boundary than non-agentic LLM chatbots, as model outputs are operationalized as system actions rather than pres…
BBC pundit and former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash accused American tennis player Zachary Svajda of abusing medical timeout rules during his third-round loss to Alex de Minaur at Wimbledon, claiming the timeout was for ti…
China's National Film Administration and State Administration for Market Regulation issued new guidelines encouraging cinemas to add AI concierge agents, karaoke booths, coffee shops, and merchandise stores to diversify …
President Trump spoke at Mount Rushmore on Friday, celebrating America's 250th birthday by praising the founders and warning of a resurgence of communism within the country. The establishment press characterized his rema…
Gartner analyst Max Goss warned CIOs in London that by 2028, the average Fortune 500 enterprise will run over 150,000 AI agents, up from under 15 in 2025. This agent sprawl, driven by uncontrolled proliferation without c…
Gartner forecasts that by 2028, an average Fortune 500 enterprise could run over 150,000 AI agents, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, creating governance and security risks due to unmanaged identities, credentials, and perm…
The IETF has published draft-sharif-attp-00, the Agent Trust Transport Protocol, which introduces a five-dimension trust scoring model for agent-to-agent messaging. The protocol addresses vulnerabilities in claim-based t…
French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are personally courting tech CEOs to secure AI infrastructure investments, with Macron texting SoftBank's Masayoshi Son to land a €75 billion data …
A Guardian investigation found OpenAI apparently never visited a key site for its Stargate UK data centre project before it was announced. The partnership was paused in April 2026, and a previous investigation found the …
AI-powered mass emails are distorting local politics, particularly around energy and climate issues, by flooding officials with automated messages that appear to be from constituents. This manipulation undermines democra…
In response to AI summaries reducing clicks to publishers, RSS feeds are being promoted as a direct alternative to search engine optimization and social media sharing, giving publishers and users a stable link free from …
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-testing program calle…
Frontier AI models may soon enable catastrophic misuse, such as aiding in the creation of deadly bioweapons or orchestrating cyber-attacks, with evidence of rapid improvement on technical tasks and expert-level performan…
Three Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft on Wednesday, alleging that the company's Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant generates excessive noise from diesel generators and HVAC systems…
A developer argues that AI governance must be embedded at the architectural level rather than applied externally. The post contends that current governance frameworks are performative because they cannot represent constr…
AI resume screening systems are disproportionately rejecting newcomer and nonnative-English applicants, with a 2023 Upwardly Global report finding that AI tools misidentified 98% of essays from new English speakers as AI…
Fanfiction communities are launching grassroots efforts to detect AI-generated works, but these detection methods often misclassify human authors and fuel social conflict within fandoms. The movement follows revelations …
OpenAI's Stargate UK data center project, announced with a £30 billion investment figure, has been paused after it emerged that OpenAI never visited a key planned site and that roughly £20 billion of the investment was s…
The New Stack argues that reducing AI model costs alone will not solve budget overruns, as infrastructure, data management, and operational expenses remain significant. The article urges organizations to adopt holistic c…