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Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company IplanRIO released Rio-3.5-Open-397B on Hugging Face under an MIT license, claiming it as a government-developed 397-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. Nex-AGI published weig…
Yale University researchers proposed a Contextual Copyleft AI License (CCAI) that would treat generative AI models trained on open-source code as derivative works, requiring developers to disclose model architecture and …
The Atlantic published searchable databases revealing that millions of copyrighted songs, including hits from Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, were used to train AI music models. The investigation highlights ongoing legal bat…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company, IplanRIO, released an AI model called Rio 3.5 Open 397B that outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro on a key benchmark, built by fine-tuning Alibaba's open-source Qwen model. The achievement …
Over 30 industry and academic professionals signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model, citing international competition and network vulnerabilities. The…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and science fiction writer inf…
Roughly 100 cybersecurity experts published an open letter demanding the US government reverse its order for Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing the ban hurts defenders more than hackers by removing the …
Chris Person's quote 'I love the computer' on the Aftermath Podcast sparked a personal reflection on the author's lifelong passion for computers, from an early encounter with an IBM 486 DX6 in the 1990s to the influence …
A developer proposes a new open source license called 'AGPL Pro Max' to extend copyleft protections to large language models trained on open source code. The license would require that any LLM trained on open source soft…
A new article introduces the term 'Conversational Risk Accumulation' (CRA), arguing that multi-turn chat sessions with large language models accumulate safety and compliance risks that single-turn checks can miss. The pi…
Apple published a support document explaining why macOS blocks Terminal command pastes and scripts, detailing new security alerts introduced in macOS 26.4 to protect users from malware. The alerts appear for infrequent T…
Google updated its AI Search optimization guide to clarify that LLMS.txt files have no impact on search rankings. Google Search does not use these files, and they neither harm nor help visibility or rankings.
The U.S. government forced Anthropic to disable its Fable and Mythos AI models globally on June 12 via an export control directive, sparking backlash from 76 cybersecurity veterans who argue the ban weakens defenders whi…
Knowledge graphs are emerging as the accountability layer for high-stakes AI systems in pharma, law, insurance, and defense, enabling traceability and reducing failures. Examples include China's System 206 for judicial A…
The U.S. government is reportedly allowing the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) to expire without a replacement, ending standards for cybersecurity and sustainability in federal data centers. The expiration al…
The Pentagon's generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users among Defense Department workers, up from fewer than 100,000 six months ago, according to Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael. The surge…
YouTube's 2026 enforcement against AI-generated content has removed 16 major channels, wiping out 4.7 billion views, 35 million subscribers, and an estimated $9.8 million in annual revenue. The platform updated its repet…
California state agencies are using six high-risk automated decision systems, including tools to predict recidivism, evaluate unemployment-fraud claims, and detect generative-AI use in student assignments, according to a…
Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after receiving a U.S. export-control directive barring foreign nationals from using them, citing a narrow jailbreak that could expose advanced cybersecurity c…
The US government issued an export-control directive on June 12, 2026, forcing Anthropic to suspend foreign-national access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing jailbreak vulnerabilities. The restriction creates a …