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Tech stocks slumped on Monday as growing concerns over an artificial intelligence bubble weighed on the sector, with investors questioning whether lofty valuations for AI-related companies are justified. The selloff hit …
Anthropic's Mythos AI model identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive U.S. government computer systems during a testing exercise, with Senator Mark Warner claiming it broke into almost all classified systems within …
Legal-tech startup Legion sued the U.S. government over a Commerce Department directive that prompted Anthropic to disable access to its top-tier AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, causing immediate harm to Legion's Canada-…
Meta paused its employee monitoring program after internal security breaches allowed unauthorized access to sensitive data, including keystrokes, screen content, and private conversations. The program, designed to train …
A developer's platform for structured compliance-training programmes repeatedly failed internal quality checks on an ISO 42001 Lead Auditor course due to subtle drift into other standards. Investigation revealed 22 disti…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on artificial intelligence companies to disclose the environmental pollution caused by their operations, emphasizing the need for transparency as AI's energy consumption and c…
The National Audit Office reports that the Government Finance Function has made an excellent start on its 2030 strategy but faces challenges from aging IT systems and poor data quality. The NAO encourages the GFF to lead…
Michael Smith pleaded guilty in March 2026 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for a streaming fraud scheme that extracted over $10 million from the music industry using AI-generated songs and bot accounts. The case highl…
AI startup Legion is suing the U.S. government after Anthropic removed its Claude Fable 5 model from public access, complying with an export control directive. Legion claims the loss of the model caused immediate, irrepa…
San Jose City Council postponed a decision on downtown parking rate hikes and extended meter enforcement hours until August after strong opposition from the downtown community. The proposal would double hourly rates to $…
The Nasdaq Composite fell 2% in futures trading as a tech stock selloff intensified amid rising expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes. Intel, Oracle, and Nvidia led the decline, while SpaceX shares dropped for a th…
Nvidia's advanced AI chips, including B200, H100, and H200, are selling at up to 50% premiums on China's black market, with over $1 billion worth smuggled in three months after US export controls tightened. The smuggling…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the U.N. AI Environmental Transparency Initiative on June 23, calling on major AI companies to measure and publicly disclose their carbon, water, and land footpr…
Multiple major studios, including Amazon, Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.' Clockwork, have passed on distributing Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished biopic 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, amid Ama…
A senior U.S. State Department official, Russ Headlee, said South Korea's requirements for physical isolation of government servers and blanket data localization policies are barriers to the country's AI development, acc…
Ireland's Children's Rights Alliance warned of a "very real danger" to children from unregulated AI as the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill came before the Dail, citing 54,603 reports of suspected child sexual …
Meta's massive AI reorganization has backfired spectacularly, with employees describing the situation as 'the worst it's ever been'. The restructuring aimed to streamline AI efforts but instead caused confusion, demorali…
The AI safety community outside frontier labs, termed 'outsiders,' is expected to play a key role in ensuring a positive transition to artificial superintelligence, according to an analysis. Outsiders are well-suited for…
The US government imposed export controls on Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, cutting off Britain and other allies from access. The ban, reportedly triggered by the models' potential to hack…
A U.S. official said Anthropic's Mythos AI model identified vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems within hours during a testing exercise with intelligence agencies. The testing was part of Anthropic's Pro…