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China's new rules banning AI companion services for minors take effect July 15, 2026, prohibiting sustained emotional interaction or virtual companions for minors. ByteDance and Alibaba are already disabling their AI age…
Beijing-based AI company Z.ai has released an open-weight model, GLM-5.2, that rivals Anthropic's powerful Mythos 5 in cybersecurity tasks, raising concerns as it can be downloaded and run without safety guardrails. Secu…
Artificial intelligence is transforming retail investment by enabling personalized advice, automated trading, and risk management, but regulators must balance innovation with consumer protection to avoid stifling progres…
The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index graded major AI companies on risk management, with Anthropic earning the top score of C+, while OpenAI slipped to C and Google DeepMind ranked third. Meta improved fr…
AI development is shifting from prompt engineering to loop engineering, where AI agents autonomously iterate and coordinate without human intervention. This transition transforms corporate governance, as loops create beh…
Cloudflare opened a July 1, 2026 waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, which lets customers charge per request for pages, datasets, APIs, and MCP tools using the x402 payment protocol. The service moves payment proof in…
Tether's AI research team argues that cloud-hosted AI systems force users to rent intelligence, creating availability bias, high costs, and data sovereignty risks. They advocate for local, edge-optimized AI that runs on …
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a Google Dialogflow CX flaw, dubbed Rogue Agent, on July 7, 2026, that could allow attackers with playbook update permission to persist malicious code inside enterprise chatbots. Google conf…
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said AI and technology will remain a priority under likely next prime minister Andy Burnham, citing meetings with Burnham and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall. Narayan emphasized AI's endu…
U.S. drivers are switching from premium to regular gasoline as fuel prices remain elevated, with daily premium sales down nearly 5% and regular sales up 10% since before the Iran war. The shift includes owners of perform…
A federal judge appointed a mediator to resolve the legal dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI's restructuring, after a jury rejected Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's founding principles. The m…
The New World screwworm, a deadly parasite fly, has been detected in Texas for the first time in 50 years, with over 30 cases confirmed in livestock. Experts are uncertain how the pest entered the U.S., sparking politica…
The Atlantic reported on July 7, 2026, that China-linked actors are using public AI tools and model ecosystems to push Beijing-friendly narratives abroad. OpenAI's June threat reporting documented accounts likely based i…
Euronews Chairman Pedro Vargas David praised Kazakhstan's new Constitution and announced that Kazakh is now an international broadcast language on Euronews, joining English, French, German, Russian, and Portuguese. He ci…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued on July 7, 2026 that automated moderation has become a permanent infrastructure layer of platform governance, not a temporary emergency measure. The analysis traces the shift fro…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that automated content moderation using AI has become a permanent fixture of online platforms, warning that crisis-era protocols adopted during the pandemic have persisted …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging supporters to become members for as little as $10 per month to help cut through AI hype and advocate for privacy, free expression, and protections against surveillance a…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own data center chips for inference to reduce reliance on Huawei and Nvidia amid US export controls, according to Reuters. The company has been working on the project for abo…
China is considering restricting foreign access to its most powerful AI models, affecting companies like Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, according to Reuters. The move positions AI as a strategic asset for both superpowers…
Researchers bypassed the age verification system of a website using AWS Rekognition by leveraging generative video AI models, demonstrating how attackers can exploit these tools to fool KYC processes. The French PVID fra…