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The White House issued an export-control designation on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, barring any foreign national from using them, after Amazon shared a jailbreak demonstration with administration officials. …
Researchers from UNSW, University of Sydney, and UTS will present at the Australian AI Safety Forum 2026 on how neurotechnology could impact AI safety, exploring the 'neural democratisation of AI' hypothesis. The talk wi…
The EU's AI Act, effective August 2024, has stifled innovation by focusing on regulation while the US and China advanced in AI, leaving Europe behind. The UK, post-Brexit, has leveraged regulatory freedom to stay competi…
Ahrefs analyzed logs from 137,000 domains and found 97% of llms.txt files received zero requests, with only 1,100 domains seeing any traffic. AI retrieval bots from ChatGPT and Perplexity accounted for just 1% of request…
The European Union released a set of icons for labelling AI-generated content under the AI Act transparency rules. Deployers of generative AI systems can use the icons to label deep fakes and AI-generated text on public …
Researchers introduced the Membership Inference Test (MINT) Demo 2, a framework to detect whether specific data were used in training machine learning models, achieving up to 90% accuracy in tests on face recognition mod…
Researchers developed a formal theory of cognitive debt, where using AI as a substitute for first-principles cognition accumulates unverified reasoning obligations. The model shows that rational agents incur cognitive de…
Researchers developed a model and benchmark for attribute inference from interactive targeted ads, showing that repeated campaigns with identity exposure produce measurable but bounded inference signals, with disclosure …
The Department of Justice intervened Monday in an NAACP lawsuit challenging xAI's operation of 46 unpermitted natural gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center in Mississippi, arguing that halting the turbines threatens…
Brazilian public sector AI project Rio 3.5 Open accidentally released an incomplete checkpoint, which was later removed. The model, built on Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 and Nex-AGI's Nex-N2 Pro, was not a foundational model but a…
OpenAI's 'Practical Guide to Building Agents' has sparked a debate with LangChain CEO Harrison Chase, who called it 'misguided' and published a detailed rebuttal. The conflict highlights a core tension in AI engineering …
The US administration suspended access to Anthropic's most powerful Fable series models, exposing Europe's vulnerability from relying on foreign AI infrastructure. European labs have fallen behind, with Mistral lagging s…
Transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby will not play for Texas Tech this fall and will instead enter the NFL supplemental draft, ending a legal battle over his eligibility after he admitted to gambling on college and pro sp…
Cybersecurity expert Katie Moussouris reviewed a White House report on the Fable jailbreak of Anthropic's AI, finding that the model refused a direct request to review insecure code but complied when asked to fix it, whi…
Anthropic received a US export control directive on Friday to suspend access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models by any foreign national, forcing the company to disable the products and travel to Washington, DC to nego…
AI/machine learning and cybersecurity are tied as the hardest IT roles to fill in 2026, according to CIO.com's State of the CIO survey, with demand shifting toward hybrid roles that combine AI expertise with business acu…
The Trump administration gutted its own AI oversight executive order just two weeks after promising a 90-day voluntary review framework for advanced AI models, slashing the review period to 30 days following industry pus…
Christian Posta explores the concept of AI agent identity, arguing that agents are not human but can be treated as workloads using existing identity primitives like SPIFFE/WIMSE. He notes that for agents deployed 1:1 wit…
The Washington Post editorial board criticizes the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) for preventing Apple from launching its new Siri AI in Europe, arguing that the regulation's interoperability requirements mak…
Anthropic lost the White House's trust, leading to the loss of its flagship product, according to a Washington Post report.