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42 Fellows of the Royal Society, including Fields Medal winners Martin Hairer and Peter Scholze, signed an open letter warning that AI existential risk is real and urgent. The mathematicians noted that leading models hav…
Enterprise security teams have built prompt-injection defenses almost entirely around text, leaving vision-language models that read invoices, screenshots, scanned PDFs and video largely unguarded, according to a 2026 CI…
NIST published a paper by Apostol Vassilev in IEEE Security & Privacy (vol. 24, no. 3, May-June 2026) claiming to extend Gödel's incompleteness theorem to AI, arguing that for any finite set of AI guardrails an adversari…
The U.S. Senate blocked the Clarity Act from advancing on a 49-50 vote after Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) released a version she said added ethics requirements for President Donald Trump, who earned around $1.4 billion …
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the "Godfather of AI," told lawmakers in a private Capitol Hill briefing this week that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to implement AI safeguards, …
Researchers chained a heap overflow in OpenAI's help-forum image handling with an SSO flaw to gain access to OpenAI's internal ChatGPT and Codex repositories, proving the intrusion with a harmless pull request before res…
Alchemy integrated its AgentCard identity and payments platform with Mastercard Agent Pay, giving each AI agent a unique email address, phone number, stablecoin wallet, and tokenized payment credentials, and adding the G…
Salesforce unveiled Koa, an enterprise AI product built on Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Super architecture and post-trained on 27 years of synthetic CRM data, at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on September 15, 2026, w…
Reuters journalists Eduardo Baptista and Laurie Chen reported that China is building a state-directed AI safety apparatus — mandatory algorithm registration and tight control over compute infrastructure — that diverges f…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei released an essay calling on AI companies to slow development of their most advanced models, a position endorsed by Sam Altman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, Demis Hassabis of Google …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and xAI CEO Elon Musk all urged a slowdown in frontier AI model development for safety reasons, after Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger said on X he persona…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of AI capability improvements in an essay released Saturday, a position Elon Musk of xAI and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly endorsed, while President Donald Trump re…
Malicious instructions and infrastructure information written onto public blockchains have increased 440% since the emergence of high-capacity Chinese open-source AI models without restrictions on generating malicious co…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned with a public warning that recklessly designed AI could wipe out humanity, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for an intentional slowdown of AI development…
A POLITICO/Public First poll found 43% of Americans said it would be acceptable for the U.S. to fall behind other countries if it meant developing AI more responsibly and securely, while 37% said the country should not s…
FWD Hong Kong endorsed the Hong Kong SAR Government's First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026-2030) and the 2026 Policy Address, with Ken Lau, Managing Director, Greater China, and Chief Executive …
The New York Times alleged in a court document unsealed Thursday that OpenAI committed "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" by scraping more than 10 million news articles — nearly a third from the Times — …
Cloudflare reported that almost 60% of requests to websites now come from bots, with CEO Matthew Prince saying automated traffic surpassed human traffic in May rather than at the end of next year as he had expected. Clou…
Venture capitalist David Sacks has become the leading voice advising President Donald Trump against government AI safety regulation, with a senior White House official telling Politico that Trump's newly vocal hostility …
China's Minister of State Security published an article in a state-run magazine on Sunday warning that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, according to a New Yorker intervie…