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Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich blocked the Ratepayer Protection Act in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources after Republican sponsor Sen. Jon Husted sought unanimous consent to pass it without a roll cal…
Mistral and other European AI companies accused US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for advanced developers to slow the pace of AI model capability …
The UAE is reportedly revising plans for a 5-gigawatt AI data-center project after Iranian drone and missile attacks damaged AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, shifting from a single 26-square-kilometer Abu Dhabi cam…
India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on September 18 at Semicon India 2026 that regulation "always plays a role… primarily about user safety," while MeitY secretary S. Krishnan said the ministry may form an AI Gover…
The US Department of Energy has unveiled 26 science and technology challenges, billed as "of national importance," as part of its Genesis Mission to use AI and supercomputers to double the productivity and impact of Amer…
Google launched an AI contribution pilot that pays publishers for the use of their content in Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews, according to Search Engine Roundtable's weekly recap. The same recap reported Google's remed…
Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft are each testing distinct payment models to compensate websites for AI access to or use of their content, with Google's pilot paying when a site's content "contributes significantly" to …
Nokia's VP and CTO for Europe, Azfar Aslam, said at the Xcelerated Compute Show in London that European AI infrastructure will grow by at least 3x by 2030 and that power is not arriving fast enough to meet demand, pushin…
Hong Kong will begin recruiting an artificial intelligence commissioner in the second quarter of 2027, a post under the Digital Policy Office paying between HK$262,125 and HK$278,200 (US$33,414 to US$35,436) a month, Per…
A developer argues that prompt injection is only one of ten failure modes in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025, and that the other nine — including Excessive Agency, Improper Output Handling, and Unbounded Consu…
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 …