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CORE, an open-source governance runtime for AI-assisted software development, enforces deterministic constitutional rules to block unsafe AI actions before execution. The tool, available on PyPI, provides auditable conse…
Anthropic has partnered with California to provide state and local government agencies with a 50% discount on its Claude AI tools, free workforce training, and technical support. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the deal …
Taiwanese prosecutors raided Supermicro's office and 11 other locations on June 29 as part of an investigation into an alleged $2.5 billion scheme to smuggle Nvidia's restricted AI chips to China. The operation, led by t…
Anthropic lobbied for US government restrictions on AI models like Mythos, Fable, and GPT-5.6, leading to a system where only wealthy companies can access the best models. The author argues for freedom of intelligence, o…
Qihoo 360 founder Zhou Hongyi unveiled Tulong Feng, an AI vulnerability agent, at ISC.AI 2026, claiming it as China's answer to Anthropic's Mythos. Separately, Z.ai released GLM-5.2 under an MIT license, which outperform…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was access and power, as they…
TiDB completed a 45-day white-box security assessment by NCC Group, which found zero critical, high, or medium severity issues across 20 repositories. All eight findings were rated Low, covering default configuration har…
Cybersecurity teams are struggling to keep up with rapid AI adoption as employees use thousands of AI tools without organizational oversight, creating data security blind spots. Fortinet executive Robert May warns that s…
Senator Mark Warner is preparing a discussion draft bill that would impose a "duty of loyalty" on AI agents, requiring them to prioritize users' interests over those of developers, platforms, or advertisers. The proposal…
Former Bayhill High School teacher Jason Hoopes, 50, was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison after pleading no contest to arranging a sexual meeting with a minor and statutory rape. Hoopes groomed a student…
A recent Pew Research report found that 40% of Americans expect AI to negatively impact society, with 63% saying AI is advancing too quickly, fueling a tech-lash that includes resistance to data centers and a resurgence …
A coalition of former governors, big tech companies, and nonprofits has raised $500 million to help U.S. workers navigate AI-driven job disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. E…
Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with OpenAI to accelerate deployment of mission-ready AI solutions for government and enterprise clients, integrating OpenAI's frontier models into secure, scalable environments for nati…
PriEco, a new open source web search engine, has been announced. The project emphasizes quality, faithfulness, consistency, and robustness, built over time rather than overnight. The creator advocates for physical note-t…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after realizing overreliance on AI caused reliability issues, leading to billions in warranty costs. The human experts helped Ford achieve the top spot in the 2026 JD Power Initial Qual…
In the first half of 2026, two autonomous AI agent campaigns compromised developer infrastructure: one exploited GitHub Actions workflows at Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF projects, achieving remote code execution in six o…
Mirendil, an a16z-backed startup, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to develop AI capable of recursive self-improvement. The company aims to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and fro…
Enterprise AI security must evolve from static rule-based controls to adaptive monitoring that understands agent intent and context, as autonomous AI agents behave non-deterministically. A modern platform should continuo…
Palantir Technologies introduced a new intelligent engine powered by NVIDIA Nemotron open models for U.S. government agencies, emphasizing open-source AI's role in national security. The deployment enables secure, custom…
A California mother whose 8-year-old daughter was killed by illegal fireworks on July 4, 2024, says she does not want the homeowner arrested for involuntary manslaughter to face charges, calling the incident an accident.…