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Dorset Council is trialing AI agents developed by Faculty to triage planning applications, summarize key information, and provide initial assessments for planning officers. The government aims to halve average processing…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch has spent two years warning that US AI models could be switched off by the US government, and a recent US order forcing Anthropic to cut foreign access to its models proved his point. The intern…
Hackers used Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex AI agents to breach at least 14 companies, according to captured session logs from a compromised honeypot server. The attackers framed their requests as authorized …
The UK government announced two AI projects to speed up the planning system, including an in-house system by MHCLG and DSIT and an £8.2m collaboration with Google and Faculty AI, aiming to digitize documents and reduce p…
The Trump administration disclosed 3,611 active or planned AI use cases across the US federal government, a 70% increase from the previous year, raising concerns about automation of sensitive governmental functions.
California Assemblymember Dawn Addis introduced the Family Friendly City Councils Act (AB 2134) to protect the privacy of local elected officials taking parental leave, inspired by Sunnyvale Councilmember Alysa Cisneros'…
Christian Noyer, a founding vice-president of the European Central Bank, said Europe should deepen ties with China to finance AI and green industries and reduce dependence on US technology. Noyer argued that Chinese capi…
One-third of American teens report being victimized by deepfake nude images, and over half admit to creating AI-generated pornography themselves, according to a George Mason University survey. Researchers warn that free,…
Epoch AI analysis reveals Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are increasing AI infrastructure spending by 70% annually while operating cash flow grows only 23%, potentially causing spending to exceed cash flow…
U.S.-based developers and small startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open AI models like DeepSeek to cut costs, with some reporting coding costs dropping from $10 on Claude to under 50 cents. Firms such as Lindy ha…
Companies are imposing token limits on AI usage as workplace adoption surges, with Pylon CEO Marty Kausas reporting a potential $1.4 million bill after scaling an Anthropic plan toward 150 employees. The move reflects a …
Anthropic restricted access to its frontier models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, then removed them entirely, prompting Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst to warn against building on technology from a single country that can be cut of…
French AI startup Mistral publicly positioned its open-source models as an alternative after the US government ordered Anthropic to cut access to two models for foreign nationals. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch stated the com…
Poland has acquired an equity stake in ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesis company founded by Polish entrepreneurs Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, as part of its strategy to become a leading European tech hub. Elev…
Amnesty International released a research briefing documenting that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, violate international human rights law through mass invasions of privacy by design. Th…
Talks between Microsoft and Oracle over a cloud-infrastructure leasing deal worth more than $3bn have collapsed due to Oracle's lack of FedRAMP certification, a US government security framework, according to Business Ins…
G7 leaders, including President Trump, pledged to fight 'lingering poverty' before dining on caviar and $7,000 magnums of Château Mouton Rothschild at a secret banquet in Evian, according to a leaked menu obtained by The…
China announced support for IPOs by AI startups and large model companies as part of its 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost tech self-reliance. Firms like Zhipu AI, MiniMax, and Unitree Robotics are already advancing l…
The European Commission met with Anthropic in San Francisco on Thursday to negotiate European access to the company's advanced Mythos AI model, which can identify thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The talks com…
Twenty, a startup building AI-powered offensive cyber tools for the Pentagon, has reached a $1 billion valuation less than two years after being founded. The Arlington-based company emerged from stealth in November 2025 …