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Linux 7.2 kernel now supports post-quantum ML-DSA signatures for IMA and EVM, replacing RSA and ECC to protect against future quantum attacks. The update also introduces staged deletion of IMA measurement list records to…
Only 7% of U.S. adults rely on AI tools for news, with 57% not using them at all, according to a Gallup survey. AI ranks last among news sources, and 39% say AI use in reporting would reduce their trust outright. Younger…
Pimco Head of Public Policy Libby Cantrill said President Trump's threats to leave NATO are a 'paper tiger' because a 2024 law requires a 60-vote Senate majority or a change in law to withdraw. The assessment comes as NA…
MakerChecker, a self-hosted governance software for AI agents, launched to enforce structural controls and human approvals in regulated industries. The tool blocks agents from exceeding grants or approving their own work…
A new study by risk-analytics firm XDI Pty Ltd finds that about 6% of nearly 3,000 planned data centers worldwide are in high-risk areas for extreme weather, potentially making them uninsurable. The research highlights t…
Meta has not yet agreed to voluntarily submit its AI models for government safety review under President Trump's June 2 executive order, while Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Microsoft have signed on. The Commerce De…
Alex Bores, a New York assemblyman who campaigned on AI safety, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district. Pro-AI industry super PAC Leading the Future spent over $8 millio…
Sunrun partnered with Tesla and Renew Home to aggregate residential solar and battery systems into virtual power plants, aiming to meet the surging electricity demands of AI data centers. The company reported a 400% incr…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the transformer architecture, left Google for OpenAI just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back from Character…
In 2026, the security industry released numerous agentic security tools, including OWASP's 400+ Agent Threat Rules, Microsoft's RAMPART red-teaming framework, and OpenAI's Lockdown Mode. However, incidents such as a Curs…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and said SpaceX is 'not an AI company' in a podcast interview, while also criticizing the U.S. government's handling of Anthropic's pulled …
Japan's three largest banks—MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho—are adopting Google's AI for core banking functions, marking a strategic shift toward U.S. technology and away from China's state-driven AI model. Finance Minister Katay…
Record rainfall in Xinjiang's Taklamakan Desert has raised concerns that infrastructure designed for arid conditions may fail under extreme weather, with experts warning of increased risks to roads, farmland, and fragile…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed claims that the artificial intelligence boom is a bubble, calling such talk an 'insult' to AI at the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Tokyo. Son, whose SoftBank has invested …
A developer published an AI use disclaimer for their software project, detailing that AI tools are limited to productivity functions and never generate original content, with all intellectual property belonging to human …
President Donald Trump called for a Department of Justice probe into oil companies for not lowering gas prices in line with falling oil costs, accusing them of gouging consumers. Trump's demand came as gas prices have dr…
Polaroid launched a global campaign, 'The Best of Summer Is Analog,' featuring a billboard on New York's Coney Island Beach that reads 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.' The campaign promote…
Anthropic's AI model Mythos identified vulnerabilities in classified US government computer systems within hours during a controlled red-team exercise, according to a US official. The test, part of Project Glasswing, did…
The European Commission has selected Italian startup Domyn to lead the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build a 400-billion-parameter language model aimed at achieving European technological sovereignty. Domyn, …
Author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow argues that the real danger of AI is not job replacement but the speculative bubble built on convincing employers to replace workers with systems that cannot deliver on th…