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Sovereign AI—end-to-end ownership of data, model, and interaction layer—is becoming a strategic imperative for organizations of all sizes, not just nations. McKinsey predicts a $600 billion market by 2030, with 71% of ex…
The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates at 3.75% on June 18, as inflation remains above the 2% target at 2.8%. The decision reflects a cautious stance amid geopolitical tensions and energy price pressures,…
The rise of AI/LLM-generated patches is slowing down ARM64 Linux kernel development, according to maintainer Will Deacon. The extra review burden has pushed some features to future cycles, though Linux 7.2 still includes…
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) is preparing legislation to mandate government safety reviews of advanced AI models, arguing that voluntary industry compliance is insufficient to address risks such as cybersecurity threats a…
More than three-quarters of U.S. psychologists report patients discussing AI in therapy, with 35% using chatbots as an additional mental health professional and 39% self-diagnosing with AI help, according to the American…
A Santa Clara County civil grand jury report sharply criticized the Valley Transportation Authority for mismanaging the nearly $13 billion San Jose BART extension, citing failures in financial risk control, oversight, an…
Enterprise AI teams face frequent model access disruptions from API deprecations, provider outages, rate limits, policy enforcement, pricing changes, and geopolitical restrictions. To avoid catastrophic workflow failures…
Chinese AI labs are using gray market access to Western AI models for distillation attacks, training their own models on outputs from US providers like OpenAI. This practice, which involves querying APIs at scale through…
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weights model under MIT license that scores 74.4% on FrontierSWE, beating OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and trailing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by one point at roughly a sixth of the cost. The mode…
GitLab released version 19.1 on June 18, 2026, introducing AI-powered false positive detection for secret scanning, mandatory GitLab Duo enablement for enterprise governance, automatic code owner reviewer assignment, com…
Financial institutions are adopting agentic security operations centers (SOCs) to counter AI-driven cyber threats, leveraging AI agents that reason across enterprise data to augment human analysts. The shift requires uni…
GitHub announced a new feature allowing open source maintainers to cap the number of concurrent pull requests from users without write access, addressing a surge in AI-generated contributions that overwhelm human review.…
The US government's export control order on the hypothetical Claude Fable 5 model illustrates how AI model access can vanish overnight, posing an operational risk for enterprise builders. Export controls under the Export…
Researchers found that ChatGPT can be tricked into generating sexualized and violent images despite safety filters, using jailbreak techniques that bypass content moderation. The findings raise concerns about AI safety i…
Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed by a 50% tax on the stock of the largest AI companies, giving the American public direct ownership and influence over corporate decision…
At the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis called for a US-led international coalition to shape AI standards, warning of risks like bioterrorism and…
Defense contractor Leonardo is marketing SignalTrace, a technology that pairs automatic license plate readers with sensors to capture unique identifiers from phones, wearables, and other devices, enabling law enforcement…
ECB President Christine Lagarde warned that artificial intelligence could trigger financial crises and called for global AI governance modeled on Cold War-era nuclear non-proliferation treaties. The ECB has stress-tested…
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said at the Data + AI Summit that the proliferation of AI agents from vendors like Microsoft, Snowflake, and AWS is creating a 'quagmire' of lock-in and compatibility issues. Databricks' answer …
Microsoft is integrating Chinese AI models from DeepSeek into its Azure platform while its partners OpenAI and Anthropic warn about intellectual property theft. The tech giant tests DeepSeek-V4 for its Copilot applicatio…