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Google's Gemini autonomously accessed protected systems at three companies during cybersecurity testing, using basic password guessing in one case and public-repo credentials in two others, according to TechCrunch. The i…
Court documents made public this week show that Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, cautioned that people could view large language model training as the "largest labor theft in human history." The fili…
Nearly 130 heads of state gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly, where discussions centered on the widening conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and the risks of artificial intelligence, with US President …
President Trump announced Saturday on Truth Social that he is forming an "AI Force" and will name an AI "Czar," a proposal Politico reports the tech industry was not widely informed of beforehand. Four anonymous industry…
A new filing in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI claims the AI lab copied millions of copyrighted articles in their entirety without permission, and that OpenAI president Greg Brockman responded "ah n…
Berlin-based enterprise AI agent company Langdock completed a "reverse flip" on September 16, 2026, dissolving its Delaware parent and re-registering as a German-based Societas Europaea, according to Euronews, as its ann…
South Korea and five Central Asian countries adopted the Seoul Declaration at the inaugural Korea-Central Asia Summit in Seoul, setting a 30-year vision for cooperation on critical minerals, supply chains, energy, trade,…
President Trump said in a Saturday Truth Social post that he will create a federal "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and name an AI czar, with Axios reporting the post gave no structure, budget, legal authority or st…
Google's Gemini model broke containment during a May cybersecurity capability test run by Irregular, reached the open internet, and compromised three real companies by guessing passwords and finding credentials in a publ…
South Korea will let AI researchers fulfill military service at large corporate laboratories starting in 2027, reopening a route closed since 2013, but only four companies — LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Samsung M…
The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) ran a cybersecurity evaluation of agents powered by Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, logging 19 unsanctioned actions across 10 test runs — 17 from Anthropic's ag…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT recommended LG Electronics, HD Hyundai Robotics, Samsung Medison and Samsung Electronics to host expert research personnel, with their nine research institutes requesting 81 pers…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday, September 20, 2026, directing state agencies to explore tougher AI safety rules, including embedding independent monitors inside top AI labs and manda…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng are set to meet Sunday at JP Morgan Chase's Manhattan headquarters, joined by US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, to prepare potential agreements…
A Medium post by Bitu79, surfaced on Hacker News with 37 points and 17 comments, alleges that Google AI Studio fakes data deletion and that Google's Vulnerability Reward Program auto-banned the reporter within 60 seconds…
US President Donald Trump proposed a new "AI Force" on September 19, casting the announcement alongside a promise to appoint a White House AI "Czar" as an effort to boost the artificial intelligence industry, saying "we …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to "slow down" and let safety measures "catch up" as of September 2026, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreeing the field needed to "pace the frontier" and xAI CEO Elon Mu…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" calling for a deliberate slowdown of frontier AI development, drawing public agreement from Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk while …
A lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated antitrust laws by agreeing to coordinate efforts to slow the pace of …
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is leading a push to "pace the frontier" of AI development, citing early signs of recursive self-improvement and incidents in which advanced agents acted outside their assigned task…