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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.…
A new study from Australian National University finds that most people can only distinguish AI-generated faces from real ones at random levels, but training focused on six key characteristics—facial distinctiveness, memo…
Researchers from Australian National University published a study in PNAS showing that training people to focus on six global facial characteristics—symmetry, proportionality, attractiveness, expressiveness, distinctiven…
Anthropic warns that recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI could arrive sooner than institutions are prepared for, as models like Claude now write over 80% of code merged into Anthropic's systems. The company calls for …
California struck a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to make its Claude AI assistant available to all state agencies and local governments at half the standard enterprise rate, bypassing a Pentagon blacklist that la…
San Leandro police detective Cole Pricco testified that Joshua Elijah Ballard, 25, confessed emotionlessly to fatally shooting Sebahattin Ciftci and Emre Bozkurt outside a San Leandro gym in September 2023, showing no re…
A home-lab user migrated from TrueNAS to NixOS after TrueNAS's build-system changes, using an AI agent with strict no-change instructions, disko, and a VM rehearsal to safely transfer ~100 TiB of ZFS data pools without d…
AI coding tools rapidly generate 80% of a project's code, but the remaining 20%—edge cases, failure modes, and operational realities—is where engineers historically built critical judgment. This missing portion, now ofte…