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Researchers conducted the first systematic security analysis of AI-powered applications on pre-trained model hubs like Hugging Face, identifying five threat categories and ten attack vectors. Their analysis of over 970,0…
A developer argues that AI agents moving into ERP workflows require a new release gate focused on safety, not just API correctness. The gate includes five questions covering policy enforcement, evidence quality, ambiguit…
The internet's reliability as a repository of knowledge is threatened by a flood of disinformation and AI-generated content, known as AI slop, which makes it increasingly difficult to find accurate information. Psycholog…
Software engineering is shifting from instruction-based to intent-based architectures as agentic AI changes the bottleneck from human execution speed to context quality, according to TestMu AI co-founder Mayank Bhola and…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the agency will take 'smart risks' and 'course correct' as it adopts AI, emphasizing it cannot wait for a risk-free approach. The CIA is aggressively embedding AI into operations, includi…
LeBron James has informed the Los Angeles Lakers that he will not return for the 2026-27 season, making him a free agent. He is expected to take a significant pay cut, likely accepting a mid-level exception worth around …
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano uncovered what he calls the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history after 40 of 86 students scored a perfect 100 on a take-home exam, while the same students averaged …
A growing number of corporate managers are using AI tools like ChatGPT to make career-altering decisions, including promotions, raises, and layoffs, often without formal training. Employees report that bosses blindly fol…
Anthropic's new AI model Mythos (Fable) is reportedly only marginally better than Claude Opus at coding tasks, with improvements largely attributed to higher compute demands and costs, according to sources cited from Cal…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project days after announcin…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which outperforms its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and surpasses the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. The company noted th…
A new report proposes the Multi-Sovereign AI Deterrence Strategy (MSADS) to govern the transition to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which could arrive before 2030 and create catastrophic risks. The strategy invol…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a new AI model with advanced autonomous capabilities, available immediately across all plans and APIs. The model offers improved reasoning, tool use, and coding at a lower cost than th…
A researcher questions the ethics of developing general-purpose robots due to the risk of cyberhacking enabling totalitarian regimes. The AI safety community has largely overlooked this risk, focusing instead on autonomo…
Google is beta testing Gmail Live, a feature that lets its Gemini AI read users' emails in real time and answer questions by voice, with plans to expand similar functionality to Docs, Drive, and Keep. Critics warn the fe…
Apple released iOS 26.5.2 on Monday, June 29, bringing over two dozen security fixes to iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices, including a patch for a memory corruption exploit discovered with the help of Anthropic's Claude A…
Anthropic is rolling out new real-time cyber safeguards on Claude Opus and Sonnet models to automatically detect and block prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity usage, while launching a Cyber Verification Program for leg…
Anthropic launched its cheaper Claude Sonnet 5 model, designed for agentic AI and autonomous tasks, as tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Uber seek to cut AI token costs. The model offers improved performance over its…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet model yet, capable of planning, tool use, and autonomous operation at a lower price point than Opus-class models. The model is available across all plans with i…
A developer accused Anthropic of embedding hidden detection logic in Claude Code version 2.1.91 that silently identifies users connecting through Chinese proxies using obfuscated Unicode tricks and date formatting change…