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The U.S. Department of Commerce's ban on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models over autonomous zero-day discovery concerns is counterproductive for cloud security, according to a cloud engineer. The ban ignores …
New York Attorney General Tish James and 17 other state attorneys general defeated Donald Trump's attempt to impose a moratorium on offshore wind energy projects, after a federal judge in Boston ruled against the adminis…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 triggered ASL-3 protections despite uncertainty about crossing biorisk thresholds, highlighting a gap between threshold definitions and actual governance decisions. The company's Mythos 5 system…
Gulf sovereign wealth funds, controlling $6 trillion in assets, have evolved into tools of statecraft, investing in strategic sectors and supporting allies. Canada and the U.S. are launching similar funds but lack the hy…
Researchers at Drexel University found that a majority of American teenagers regularly use AI companion chatbots, with a quarter relying on them as a primary source of emotional support. The study analyzed Reddit posts w…
A developer argues that AI will transform software from disposable to sustainable, eliminating the need for rewrites and enabling decades-long codebases. This shift will create new roles in AI code governance and force S…
The United States now accounts for more than half of the global credit impulse, adding roughly $800 billion in net new credit over the past year, driven primarily by artificial intelligence spending, according to UBS ana…
Anthropic will require Claude Free, Pro, and Max users to submit government ID and a live selfie to biometric vendor Persona starting July 8, 2026, following a US government export control directive that ordered the comp…
Microsoft and Chevron signed a 20-year, 2.67 GW natural gas deal for a West Texas data center, highlighting energy security as a key AI constraint. Samsung deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex company-wide in one of Ope…
China blacklisted 56 American companies in retaliation for Washington's export controls on Anthropic's AI models, escalating the AI trade war into a mutual conflict. Anthropic revealed the trigger for its export ban was …
The US government forced Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5 globally—the first forced shutdown of a commercial AI model. The hypothetical scenario highlights how existing regulations like the EU AI Act and US executive ord…
Half of US adults now use AI chatbots, yet more Americans expect negative societal impact than positive, according to Pew Research. The paradox reflects a split between personal utility and systemic risk, with usage doub…
A controlled study from IIT Delhi and Princeton found that citing sources, adding statistics, and quoting experts boosts AI search visibility by up to 40%, while keyword stuffing reduces it by 10%. Pew Research data show…
Institutional backlash against AI is mounting across public sector, media, and education, with New York City council members urging a classroom AI pause and a German newsroom caught using AI to write articles. Yet capita…
Anthropic has proposed opening a physical library space where users can access its frontier AI model Fable, which is currently restricted by export controls. The concept, inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria, wo…
Microsoft reported blocking over 156,000 phishing attempts per minute in 2024, but AI-generated cold emails still evade content filters. Email CAPTCHA for Outlook intercepts unknown senders and requires them to complete …
The U.S. Commerce Department sent an enforcement letter invoking an export-control directive that barred non-U.S. access to Anthropic's latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, leading Anthropic to disable access to compl…
Meta employees have launched a petition demanding the company stop collecting their computer-use data, including keystrokes and mouse movements, for training AI models. The petition cites privacy concerns, lack of transp…
Meta employees in at least five US offices posted flyers on May 12 to protest the company's Model Capability Initiative, which collects employee computer use data to train AI models, with over 1,600 workers signing a pet…
Doris, a lawyer and startup consultant from Nigeria, introduces herself to the DEV community, sharing her background in legal practice, human rights, governance, and startup advisory. She plans to post about startups, pr…