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INTERPOL's 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report, released June 17, 2026, found that cybercrime accounts for over 30% of all recorded crime in more than half of 18 surveyed member countries. The …
Forrester announced full agendas for its AI Forum Singapore and AI Forum Sydney, both themed 'AI Into Action: Unlock Your Opportunity,' to help enterprise leaders scale AI deployments. The events, scheduled for August 20…
Microsoft has built a significant business selling OpenAI models to Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent, despite U.S.-China tensions over AI. ByteDance alone is on track to spend over…
Noam Shazeer, a Google veteran and founder of Character.AI, is leaving Google to join OpenAI, marking another major talent reshuffle in the AI industry. Shazeer co-led Google's Gemini project and co-authored a seminal 20…
China is accelerating the establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, proposed on July 26, 2025, to promote multilateralism and global AI governance. The organization, tentatively headqua…
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is meeting with Anthropic in San Francisco on June 18 to negotiate access to Mythos, an AI model designed for vulnerability research, amid new US export controls that r…
Netlist filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission against Samsung, Google, and Super Micro, alleging infringement of six patents related to DDR5 memory and high-bandwidth memory. The company seeks to b…
The Linux kernel has removed support for the legacy AppleTalk protocol after a surge of AI-generated patches targeted the code, reducing the attack surface and improving security.
The United States used Elon Musk's Grok AI to deploy 2,000 munitions during a conflict with Iran, according to Middle East Eye. The AI, part of Project Maven's targeting support system, processed data for Operation Epic …
Global investors are increasingly splitting Chinese tech stocks into AI winners and losers, with a pair trade strategy going long on Alibaba and short on Meituan returning around 130% year-to-date. The trade is driven by…
A Hacker News user argues that AI models are built on publicly available human-generated content, and therefore their weights should be treated like patents with limited exclusivity rather than being kept proprietary ind…
Kristie Carrier of New Brunswick filed a lawsuit in California state court on June 11, 2026, naming OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter Alice Carrier to commit suicide. The complaint …
A federal judge indicated she will likely allow state discrimination claims against Workday to proceed, rejecting the company's argument that it cannot be held liable under California anti-discrimination laws for its AI …
The University of Cincinnati denied knowing about quarterback Brendan Sorsby's gambling when he transferred from Indiana, contradicting claims by his agent Ron Slavin that the school was aware. Sorsby, who placed 9,000 b…
President Donald Trump said negotiations with AI company Anthropic are progressing well, speaking at the G7 summit on June 17, 2026, amid a months-long standoff involving federal bans and export controls. The dispute cen…
WebKit has formally opposed the WebMCP standard, citing redundancy with the accessibility tree as a key concern. A developer argues that the opposition is constructive engineering feedback and that the right approach is …
Dame Antonia Romeo, the newly appointed UK cabinet secretary, is leading a review of the civil service's organization, performance, and transformation, with a focus on the impact of AI and technology, recruitment challen…
Millions of people are confiding in AI therapy chatbots, but a KFF Health News investigation reveals that mental health data is dangerously exposed. Researchers found 1,575 vulnerabilities in popular Android mental healt…
The enrollment cliff, driven by declining birth rates since 2007, will force many U.S. colleges to close or merge by 2029, with small private and regional public schools most at risk. Schools like Merritt College and Mil…
The Pentagon disclosed in a legal filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets within 96 hours, marking the first formal acknowledgment of a commercial generative AI model in kinetic t…