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Anthropic's AI model Fable 5 could be available again within days as the Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions imposed on June 12 over safety concerns, pending sign-off from the Pentagon and NSA.
Hyundai factory workers in South Korea voted to strike over fears that humanoid robots could replace them, demanding a say in automation decisions and a performance bonus of about $27,000 per worker. The union cited Hyun…
The Stockton City Council approved an ordinance regulating face coverings used to conceal identity in ways that provoke fear, intimidation, threats or violence, with exemptions for religious, medical, workplace, and cult…
The Trump administration partially reversed its suspension of Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, allowing over 100 vetted U.S. organizations to access it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cited progress on safeguards, but c…
Cloudflare's engineering team grew 45% to 1,894 after cutting 1,100 jobs in May, as CEO Matthew Prince says AI eliminates "measurer" roles while builders and sellers thrive. The pattern, confirmed by BNP Paribas LinkedIn…
Post-quantum certificates, specifically Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), reduce TLS handshake sizes from 14,724 bytes to as low as 4,468 bytes by batching signatures and using landmark-relative proofs, but introduce issu…
Kazakhstan signed the Pax Silica Declaration and AI Opportunity Partnership at the second Pax Silica Summit in Washington, D.C., joining a U.S.-led initiative to develop secure supply chains for the AI economy. Deputy Pr…
San Francisco police arrested five people at the Trans March on Friday after vandalism and a scuffle that injured two officers. The arrests were for assault, vandalism, and obstructing police, with the officers sustainin…
AI developers and donors have pledged $275 million toward political races, with AI companies and affiliated groups spending at least $83 million on federal elections in 2025 and tens of millions more on state-level campa…
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, AWS, and 15 other organizations launched Akrites under the Linux Foundation, a coordinated body for AI-era vulnerability discovery, remediation, and disclosure in critical open-sourc…
AI executives who funded Donald Trump's deregulation campaign are now pleading for formal regulation after the administration imposed chaotic export controls on Anthropic and forced a government-managed launch for OpenAI…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, its strongest cyber model yet, which is competitive with Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview on ExploitBench while using one-third of the output tokens. The launch marks a shift in the frontier…
A user migrated from Windows 10 to Debian Linux on a Dell Latitude, citing frustration with Windows 11's Microsoft account requirement, Recall feature, and forced updates. They customized their Debian desktop with a Wind…
Major technology companies have shifted their AI startup strategy from outright acquisitions toward minority investments, joint ventures, and commercial partnerships, according to The Hindu Business Line. Analysts say mi…
Two weeks after the US government ordered Anthropic to cut global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Asian AI labs have released competing models. Japan's Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier-class orchestrator model, while …
The Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to its Fable 5 AI model, weeks after halting it over national security risks, according to sources. The U.S. government has already permitted Anth…
Austin Chen and Oliver Habryka discussed plans to improve the AI safety funding ecosystem with a better S-Process platform and a new incubator for EA/AIS software projects called Surplus. Habryka criticized philanthropy …
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6, a new model family led by Sol, alongside Terra and Luna, with Sol setting a new state of the art on Terminal-Bench 2.1 for agentic tasks. The rollout is limited to trusted partners at the US gov…
Former James Bond casting director Debbie McWilliams, who cast Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig, has given a blunt verdict on current 007 favorites like Callum Turner and Jacob Elordi, stating they are to…
PostCSS maintainer Andrey Sitnik adopted npm staged publishing for four of seven packages under the 'ai' npm account, gating 685 million weekly downloads behind human approval. The move, prompted by a GitHub issue filed …