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A Disney employee named Matthew Van Andel received a series of threatening emails from hackers who had gained access to his password manager, 1Password, compromising over 1,000 accounts including personal and financial d…
The U.S. Commerce Department forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline via an export control directive, citing unspecified national security concerns related to a guardrail bypass. Cybersecurity…
The US government issued an export-control directive to Anthropic, suspending foreign access to its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disabled the models for all custom…
Anthropic is in talks with the Trump administration to reverse restrictions on its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, imposed on national security grounds. The company argues the models' safeguards remain effective…
A malicious PyPI package named 'ColorLib' was discovered targeting developers with info-stealing malware that exfiltrates environment variables, cryptocurrency wallet details, and credentials. OWASP released its Top 10 l…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth admitted the company's rollout of a new AI division was 'atrocious,' citing poor communication and career growth concerns among 6,500 engineers. The internal unrest follows widespread dissatisfac…
Enterprises are rushing to deploy AI agents in production, but most fail due to missing infrastructure. An Agent Harness—a control plane separate from the agent—must provide identity, governance, memory, routing, evaluat…
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook on June 15, a search feature that generates AI responses from public posts across Meta's platforms, including Instagram and Threads. The feature, powered by Meta's Muse Spark model, aims…
Asian tech stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10%, SK Hynix climbed 6.42%, and Samsung Elect…
Anthropic faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging false advertising over usage limits for its Claude Max subscription plans. The suit claims the Max 20x plan delivers only six to eight times the usage of Pro inste…
The Small Business Administration partnered with AI firm Perplexity to launch a $25 million Main Street AI Accelerator, offering $250 Perplexity Computer credits to up to 100,000 small businesses with SBA-backed loans. T…
The Pentagon's generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, surged from 80,000 to 1.5 million daily users in six months after deploying Google Gemini and clarifying usage rules, now serving nearly half of the Department of Defense…
A federal judge permanently dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that xAI failed to show OpenAI induced a former engineer to divulge confidential information. The decision marks Elon Musk's second …
AI hiring systems that autonomously reject candidates are indefensible because they learn from a flawed label—'good hire'—which is measured late, confounded, and survivorship-biased, causing models to imitate past gateke…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized FIFA for high World Cup ticket prices that are out of reach for most Mexicans, urging the organization to reflect on soccer's role beyond business. She promoted a government…
The US government directed Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a national-security risk from a potential jailbreak that could identify software vulnerabilities. Anth…
The Big 12 Conference filed a lawsuit against Texas Tech University on Monday to clarify its authority to punish the school over its attempt to play quarterback Brendan Sorsby. Three states have joined with Big 12 commis…
The U.S. government shut down Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, just five days after its release, marking the most dramatic AI shutdown in history due to technical and political concerns.
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta was widely mocked after comparing the removal of President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center to the fall of the Berlin Wall during a nearly 11-hour live stream. Acosta, who left CNN…
Bittensor's native token $TAO surged 30% after the US government forced Anthropic to disable its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under export control directives, driving investors toward decentralized AI alternat…