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Attestor, a TypeScript prototype admission layer for AI agents, provides a customer-owned gate that checks policy, authority, scope, freshness, replay, and evidence before allowing high-risk operations such as payments, …
Hong Kong families are shifting from traditional summer school programs in Britain and North America to cheaper Asia-based alternatives due to soaring airfares, with applications to UK summer schools dropping 35% this ye…
A debate between the author and Zack Korman on whether Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is good or bad for the world highlighted deep disagreements over AI risk and governance. The author argues Korman underestimates AI capabi…
Seoul is considering free bus rides for seniors aged 70 and older, with a proposal clearing a city council committee and heading for a plenary vote. Supporters cite mobility rights, but critics warn of mounting fiscal pr…
A Washington D.C. subscriber filed a class action lawsuit against Anthropic on June 14, alleging that its Claude Max 20x plan delivers only six to eight times Pro usage instead of the advertised twenty times. The complai…
In May 2026, Hawkesbury City Council councillors dismissed reporting by the local Hawkesbury Gazette as "AI slop" to discredit accountability journalism, marking the first documented use of the term as a political weapon…
Japan's semiconductor equipment makers reported a 10% drop in China sales as export restrictions on advanced chipmaking technology take effect. Tokyo Electron's China revenue fell from 279.4 billion yen to 175.5 billion …
A 1977 Little Golden Books story about Cookie Monster and a cursed cookie tree is used as an allegory to explain AI safety concepts, including AGI, misuse risks, preparedness frameworks, reward misspecification, and fiel…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all foreign nationals, citing national security concerns over a jailbreak method. Anthropic complied immediately, disabling …
The Atlantic's Books Briefing reviews Sarah Bakewell's book 'Humanly Possible' amid concerns that AI advancements threaten independent thought, quoting Eric Schmidt on AI as a material improvement to human intelligence a…
A new term from Harvard Business Review, 'workslop,' describes the feedback loop where AI-generated content with subtle errors accumulates in enterprise knowledge bases, corrupting institutional records and costing organ…
An assault case involving five Japanese girls who used AI to decide how much money to demand from a victim has exposed a disturbing pattern of adolescents turning to AI for guidance in criminal acts. A second case involv…
A structural copper deficit is emerging as demand from AI, electrification, and defense outpaces supply, with S&P Global projecting a 10-million-ton gap by 2040. The scramble for new supply is driving Western investment …
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot constitute surveillance backdoors, citing their need for pervasive access to credit cards, messages, and calendars…
On June 21, GLM-5.2, an open-weight model with 40 billion active parameters, outperformed larger closed models on the Intelligence Index, signaling a collapse of the scale law. Concurrently, research on recursive self-im…
AgentKit released an open-source specification called AgentAz for governing AI agents, exemplified by an email reply drafting agent that reads threads and drafts contextual replies without sending. The specification docu…
Google's AgentKit released an open-source AgentAz specification for a Community Question Triage Agent that categorizes questions, answers clear ones from a knowledge base, and routes spam to moderators. The agent operate…
A new AI agent called the Company Policy Q&A Agent answers policy, benefits, and procedure questions strictly from an official handbook with citations, routes sensitive HR matters to a person, and never invents policy or…
A new AI agent, the Expense Audit & Compliance Agent, automates line-by-line expense report auditing against company policy, flagging violations and suspicious patterns while auto-approving clean reports. The agent is go…
AgentKit released a Compliance Control Monitoring Agent that tests internal controls against supporting evidence and flags failures without auto-attesting. The agent is governed by an open-source AgentAz specification de…