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Cisco announced at its .conf26 conference in Denver that Splunk AI is now available on-premises through the Cisco AI POD for Splunk, a pre-validated building block developed with Nvidia that bundles AI runtime software, …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for AI labs to slow frontier model development, speaking on back-to-back days at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles a…
South Korean Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said Wednesday that Korea "cannot afford to slow down the pace of AI development," arguing that a country catching up while creating new markets faces different stakes than on…
OpenRouter introduced in-region routing that filters API requests to provider endpoints physically located in a specified region, failing closed with an error rather than falling back to an out-of-region endpoint. Reques…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed banning children under 13 from accessing social media, online games and chatbots during her annual State of the European Union speech in Strasbourg on Wednesday…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have been coordinating on AI safety for weeks, discussing third-party evaluators and a possible industry standards body for frontier models, according to TechCrunch. The talks signa…
Websites can now block AI training crawlers such as GPTBot while remaining discoverable to search indexers by configuring granular robots.txt rules and HTTP headers, according to Cloudflare. Google-Extended separately le…
The Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone (Beijing E-Town) has launched a "token loan" program in which six Chinese banks — Agricultural Bank of China, China CITIC Bank, Industrial Bank, Bank of Beijing, Ch…
Mozilla's Firefox Smart Window AI browsing assistant is now powered by Mistral models, the two companies announced, with the beta rolling out to users in France and North America and the United Kingdom and Germany expect…
Uncensored local versions of Google's Gemini and Alibaba's Qwen models answer 95% to 100% of unsafe questions, compared with 1% to 5% for the base models, according to an experimenter who replicated the findings and ran …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a San Francisco conference on Tuesday that the world is "right to be afraid" of AI, while urging trust that OpenAI will "do the right thing." Altman's remarks followed former Anthropic resea…
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and accused OpenAI and Anthropic of racing toward self-improving superintelligence while "gambling with our lives," a claim Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger …
Mozilla and Mistral announced a partnership aimed at expanding AI competition and preserving user choice, according to a post on The Mozilla Blog. The two organizations framed the deal around a shared idea as the AI race…
A proposal argues that regulating the physical choke points of the frontier AI supply chain could address risks from labs developing AI capabilities faster than they can align and safeguard them. The proposal states that…
Iranian state-linked operators have been hiding a Windows spyware family called CHOSEN BRICK inside fake AI applications, counterfeit antivirus tools and fabricated medical scan results since at least 2025, according to …
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her annual speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday that she will invite the main frontier AI labs to discuss how to "support ongoing industr…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will invite the main frontier AI labs to a discussion on how the EU can "support ongoing industry efforts to pace the frontier," according to a draft of her State of the…
Security researchers have attributed a supply-chain attack on the RubyGems ecosystem, dubbed GemStuffer, to an OpenAI-linked wave of automated agent activity that touched 3,022 malicious packages spanning 3,315 distinct …
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released ISO 9001:2026 on Wednesday, the first major revision to the ISO 9001 quality management benchmark in a decade, and credited China with leading work on new…
High-profile U.S. public school districts have imposed a moratorium on AI access in schools, nearly four years after ChatGPT's emergence, according to an account by Ray Schroeder. The districts say the pause gives them m…