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Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper and faster version of Opus 4.8, while the industry awaits more advanced models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol. The article also discusses AI regulation, noting that the …
US export controls suspended Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 12, 2026; Mythos 5 was restored on June 26 to over 100 US institutions, but Fable 5 remains blocked pending NSA and Pentagon approval. Anthropi…
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 30, 2026, that states may bar transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho. The decision, which validates similar bans…
Richmond, California, is considering a November ballot measure to raise about $120 million annually through a property tax to overhaul its fire department, which has been the only one in Contra Costa County limited to ba…
Nvidia shareholders reelected all ten director nominees and approved a governance change from supermajority to simple majority voting at the company's 2026 annual meeting. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized agentic AI as the lo…
Cryptographer Daniel J. Bernstein criticizes claims that ML-KEM (Kyber) is low-risk, arguing that proponents narrow the definition of risk to exclude timing attacks and software bugs. He highlights KyberSlash vulnerabili…
The United States, Japan, and South Korea announced a joint initiative to combat North Korea's cryptocurrency crimes, including theft, money laundering, and AI-driven hacking, aiming to disrupt financial networks funding…
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…