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Anthropic, the AI safety company valued at nearly $1 trillion, believes it must lead the AI race to ensure safe development, according to former employees and analysts. The company's strategy involves building cutting-ed…
A philosophical essay draws parallels between the Golem legend, Augustine's theodicy, and al-Ghazālī's critique of causality to argue that present choices in AI development can have irreversible, far-reaching consequence…
The White House has imposed a government checkpoint on OpenAI's GPT-5.6, requiring federal approval for early access users, marking a shift from voluntary AI safety commitments to direct government intervention. The move…
Google is requiring news publishers in its AI-powered article overviews pilot to grant broad rights for content use, including AI training, or risk losing annual fees from Google News, which Google plans to end. The Euro…
AI impact researcher Katja Grace appeared on Peter Scott's podcast 'Artificial Intelligence and You' in a two-part episode discussing AI risks, including unexpected goals, agent risks, and extinction threats, as well as …
South Korean stocks opened lower Friday, with the KOSPI falling 1.71% amid tech losses on Wall Street and profit taking after a sharp rise the previous session. Investors are concerned about valuations of AI-related shar…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called Valve's mandatory generative AI disclosure for Steam games 'irresponsible,' arguing it stigmatizes developers and harms their chances of success. In a PC Gamer interview, Sweeney defende…
Mysten Labs unveiled a Seal MPC prototype on Sui Network's testnet, enabling AI agents to transact onchain without controlling private keys. The system uses multi-party computation committees to authorize transactions an…
Oakland Unified School Board approved a $1.2 billion budget with an $8 million surplus after cutting $30 million in spending, despite earlier warnings of a $100 million deficit. District officials defended the budget as …
GitHub introduced an enterprise setting this week that restricts which extension and plugin marketplaces are allowed in VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, framing marketplace policy as a runtime boundary for coding agents. …
Sales leaders are abandoning traditional conversation intelligence platforms that rely on visible meeting bots, as enterprise IT departments block third-party bots and prospects shut down when recording participants join…
OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI chip, Jalapeño, built with Broadcom, signaling a shift away from relying solely on Nvidia for inference compute. Meanwhile, Google fired developer Justin Poehnelt after his open-source…
1Password has mapped AI agent architectures into delegated, bounded, and autonomous authority models, each with local and remote variants, to address the unique identity and security challenges posed by non-deterministic…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 in a limited preview with three variants—Sol, Terra, and Luna—gated to approximately 20 partners at the request of the US government. The model is not yet available to the general public, and …
A journalist encountered a political spambot named Emma that texted about Israel, later identified as part of an AI-powered outreach campaign by Clock Tower X LLC, controlled by Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parsc…
After a year working in AI security and governance, a marketing professional now prioritizes data privacy over tool functionality, asking where data goes and who has access before adopting AI. The experience revealed tha…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) on June 25, 2026, the first public dashboard to correlate AI exposure metrics with unemployment claims. Initial data through May 202…
A Walnut Creek teen was arrested for using a BB gun to threaten and shoot at registered sex offenders he found through a public database. Months later, police raided his home on suspicion of selling marijuana and cannabi…
China's STAR 50 Index surged 64% amid AI spending and tech policy support, with top holdings like Zhongji Innolight and Eoptolink Technology gaining around 33%. The rally has boosted ETFs tracking the index, but analysts…
Researchers have repeatedly found Android devices pre-loaded with malware sold on Amazon and other major online retailers, with one campaign affecting 10 million devices. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls on Amazo…