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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…
A new content repurposing agent, governed by the open-source AgentAz specification, transforms a single source into multiple formats while preserving facts and brand voice. The agent operates under strict trust and autho…
AgentKit released the Access Request & Provisioning Agent, an open-source blueprint under Apache-2.0 that validates access requests against policy, separation-of-duties, and risk scoring before provisioning or escalating…
A new AI agent called Campaign Brief Builder Agent turns user inputs into structured marketing campaign briefs, flagging missing information and assumptions for human review. The agent is governed by an open-source Agent…
DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in Series A funding led by Tencent, with CATL as a major investor, signaling a shift in Chinese AI funding toward non-ecosystem players as Alibaba and ByteDance sat out. The record-breaking r…
Three days after Anthropic shipped Mythos 5 to vetted defenders, the US government used export control to recall it worldwide. CISA's BOD 26-04 also retires the fixed-deadline KEV model for a risk score.
A writer reports that a GPT Deep Research search found no studies evaluating birth-sex-affirming hormones to reduce gender dysphoria, despite evidence that some people experience dysphoria without being trans. The author…
The Federal Aviation Administration is spending nearly $4 million on an artificial intelligence initiative with Palantir Technologies to reduce close calls on airport runways. The AI tool, Foundry, will analyze hundreds …
A developer argues that responsibility for AI decisions falls entirely on developers, not the AI itself, citing incidents such as Air Canada's false chatbot response, Waymo mishaps in Texas, and Amazon outages caused by …
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against treating them as sentient interlocutors. She expressed concerns about granting systems like Microsoft Co…
Converting sub-prime mortgages to price-indexed instruments in 2008 would have prevented the liquidity crisis that triggered mass defaults, according to an analysis. The intervention would have eliminated front-loaded ca…
Stanford's 2026 AI Index reveals that 88% of companies now use AI in at least one business function, but fewer than 10% have fully scaled AI in any function, highlighting a gap between adoption and governance. The report…
The European Union has finalized major revisions to its AI Act, postponing high-risk AI rules until 2027-2028 and exempting industrial applications, while keeping the timeline for general-purpose AI models like those fro…
The UK Home Office launched PoliceAI, a £75 million national centre to scale artificial intelligence use across police forces in England and Wales. The centre will prioritize AI tools for digital evidence triage, disclos…