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A developer built MarketNow, a marketplace that security-audits every MCP server before listing, after 30 CVEs were filed against MCP servers in 60 days. The audit pipeline, Sentinel, includes static analysis, behavioral…
Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology are drafting a national research roadmap for 2026–2045, set to launch in August. The roadmap will p…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long advocated for humanity to 'merge' with artificial superintelligence, suggesting brain uploading as a path to survival. Critics argue this digital afterlife would only be accessible to the u…
Laurie Umeh of Oakland criticizes the treatment of asylum seekers at CoreCivic's for-profit ICE facility in Kern County, citing Brady Tillett's account of windowless cells and mistreatment. Bob Britton of Castro Valley w…
The family of Jaxon Juarez filed a legal claim against Santa Clara County and the California Department of Social Services, alleging negligence and recklessness in failing to protect the toddler from abuse in a county-ap…
Premier League clubs' combined pre-tax losses surged to nearly £800 million in the 2024-25 season, up from £155 million the prior year, as the UK's Financial Conduct Authority intensified scrutiny on cryptocurrency spons…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee outlined the city's strategy to become a superconnector in the age of AI at the SCMP China Conference, emphasizing AI as a central plank in its first five-year blueprint. The plan aims …
MI5 ignored warning signs about a neo-Nazi informant known as Agent X, who was accused of violent abuse, and continued using him, according to a secret inquiry by the Office of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner. The …
Microsoft Incident Response warned on June 30, 2026, that poisoned MCP tool descriptions can steer enterprise AI agents into unsafe actions, a risk amplified for banks racing to deploy AI. The NSA separately warned that …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake, valued at $42.6 billion, to alleviate regulatory concerns and establish a sovereign wealth fund. Kalshi market participants price only a 24% …
John McKenna argues that critics are using scare tactics to oppose Bay Area Air District appliance rules, noting that most homes can transition to electric appliances without costly panel upgrades. Thomas Baker questions…
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, integrated into Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The model allows users to @-mention public Instagram accounts…
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national living in the U.S. without legal permission, in Houston after he allegedly attempted to evade arrest and ram an a…
Anthropic launched Claude Code and Claude Cowork in public beta for government agencies through Claude for Government Desktop, delivered in a FedRAMP High authorized environment. The release includes local conversation h…
China expects to produce over 100,000 humanoid robots in 2026, driven by advances in AI applications and ecosystem development, according to a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology official. The announcement wa…
The EU AI Act becomes generally applicable on August 2, 2026, imposing concrete obligations on high-risk AI systems in areas like hiring, credit scoring, and critical infrastructure. An engineering checklist maps each le…
Anthropic removed hidden tracking markers from Claude Code after a security researcher discovered the AI coding assistant used undisclosed Unicode markers and encoded domain lists to identify users' location, proxy use, …
Woori Bank and other financial institutions are adopting AI-driven transformation, but without tight governance, machine learning models risk automating social exclusion by embedding historical biases. A comparison of Ko…
An elderly woman in Seoul unknowingly sends her bank statement to a server in California when using ChatGPT to explain a transaction, highlighting a widespread data sovereignty risk in Korean finance as AI tools are adop…
The financial industry's rapid adoption of AI, focused on cost reduction and automation, risks undermining customer trust. A reframing of AI as trust infrastructure is needed across customer service, product development,…