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Mistral AI, a French AI startup, is gaining attention as a sovereign alternative to US tech, following government actions against Anthropic and European calls for reduced US reliance. The company, which develops large la…
World, a project by Tools for Humanity, proposes a five-pillar system to verify unique human identity online without revealing personal information, addressing the failure of traditional proxies like CAPTCHAs and phone v…
The FTC proposed a policy statement on July 1 requiring AI developers to prominently disclose any intentional output filtering, including safety guardrails, by July 31 or face potential legal action under Section 5 of th…
Nigerian-Australian model Elii Emeghebo filed a racial discrimination complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission after menswear retailer Peter Jackson used AI to lighten his skin and alter his facial features …
The Declaration of Independence, signed 250 years ago, advanced religious freedom by recognizing natural rights from God, including liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which underpin religious liberty. It laid the grou…
Several US states are considering or have passed bills banning legal personhood for AI systems and declaring AI cannot be conscious, driven by religious beliefs, accountability concerns, and child safety. Critics argue t…
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…