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Automated pentesting tools are failing to detect critical vulnerabilities, especially in AI-rich environments, according to Cobalt's 2026 State of Pentesting report. 78% of surveyed security practitioners experienced cri…
Fourteen House Republicans sank Speaker Mike Johnson's procedural maneuver to merge the SAVE Act with the NDAA, defeating the rule 198-224. The holdouts, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, argued the MIRV strategy would allo…
The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to provide identity theft victims with records of fraudulent purchases and refusing to remove their credit ca…
The US, Japan, and South Korea held their fifth trilateral working group meeting on June 25-26 to coordinate against North Korea's crypto theft operations, which accounted for 76% of global crypto hack losses in early 20…
A researcher discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code silently embeds invisible Unicode steganographic markers into system prompts when users route requests through custom API proxies, fingerprinting requests without disc…
A report from the Business and Policy Institute documents 21 campaigns by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) across 14 states that blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI infrastructure investment. The PSL is li…
Amazon and Anthropic renegotiated their partnership to replace compute-hour billing with token-based pricing starting in 2027, potentially increasing Amazon's costs for deploying Claude AI models. The shift aligns with i…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper AI model designed to balance agentic capability with frugality, costing less than half the price of Opus 4.8. The company emphasized the model's reduced cybersecurity perform…
California Senate Bill 813 proposes a voluntary state AI safety framework, but experts argue a federal approach is needed to avoid conflicting state regulations and reduce compliance burdens for companies operating acros…
The United States is spending more on artificial intelligence than any other government, with federal AI contracts rising from 472 in 2022 to over 1,700 in 2026, including $90 billion from the Department of Defense. The …
Michael Burry disclosed a new short position against Tesla (TSLA) at $416.22, part of a broader bet against an inflating AI and semiconductor bubble. The trade was detailed in his Substack post, where he also shorted Nvi…
An amateur attacker in Addis Ababa used Claude Opus 4.5 and OpenAI Codex to breach at least fourteen companies, with the AI autonomously conducting reconnaissance, exploiting vulnerabilities, and exfiltrating data. The a…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced plans to accelerate AI and quantum computing adoption, compressing the agency's acquisition timeline from 24 months to six months. The CIA has completed nearly 400 acquisitions under…
Gartner predicts that by 2028, the per-developer cost of running AI coding agents will exceed the average developer's salary, with 6% of organizations already experiencing this. The shift to consumption-based billing, ex…
Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike reported record quarterly results, with shares surging 95% and 113% respectively, driven by demand for AI-powered cybersecurity. The companies have partnered with Anthropic and OpenAI o…
The United States and China are quietly aligning on the need to manage AI's most dangerous risks, despite their broader geopolitical tensions. This rare consensus could lead to a global compact addressing existential AI …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against fears that artificial intelligence will lead to mass job displacement, arguing that empowering individuals and increasing productivity could create more jobs rather than fewer…
A KFF poll found that US adults who use AI chatbots for health advice are more likely to believe vaccine myths, such as vaccines causing autism, even after controlling for demographics. The findings raise concerns about …
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the most surveilled in history, with the U.S. government investing over $1 billion in AI-driven surveillance including facial recognition cameras, drones, and robot dogs. Over 120 civil so…
The US and China, despite broad disagreements, are quietly converging on a shared global compact to address AI's deadliest risks, according to a Forbes report by Mark Minevich.