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PrismorSec released immunity-agent, an open-source control plane for AI agents that intercepts tool calls to enforce policies, audit actions, and prevent six common failure modes including overpermissive defaults and pro…
KPMG's Global Tech Report 2026 found that 88% of organizations are embedding agentic AI, but only 24% achieve ROI at scale, and 53% lack the talent to execute transformation plans. Ninety-two percent of executives expect…
OpenAI restricted its new GPT-5.6 Sol AI model to customers approved by the Trump administration, citing government requests amid heightened national security scrutiny. The move follows similar actions against Anthropic,…
Meta Platforms' new vice-president of AI research, Dawn Song, said the next frontier of artificial intelligence will be agents that can perform economically valuable work across real-world domains. Song, a UC Berkeley pr…
Graduates at commencement ceremonies booed speakers who made AI-positive comments, reflecting anxiety about AI's threat to future jobs and a broader frustration with higher education's narrow focus on economic return. Th…
A new report by Mijente, Just Futures Law and the Surveillance Resistance Lab alleges that U.S. immigration authorities have expanded their use of surveillance technologies from private firms like Palantir and Anduril, r…
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that patients under general anesthesia can process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing parts of speech and predicting upcoming words, challenging traditional …
Smolagents, a Python library from Hugging Face for building AI agents, prioritizes code-based actions over JSON tool calls, enabling loops, conditionals, and tool composition. However, this design shifts the safety focus…
Researchers at Anthropic discovered that language models can transfer hidden behaviors through fine-tuning on seemingly meaningless data, a phenomenon called subliminal learning. They identified 'entangled tokens'—such a…
Semgrep co-founders Isaac Evans, Drew Dennison and Luke O'Malley published a benchmark on June 22 showing that Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM 5.2 scored 39% F1 on an IDOR vulnerability-detection test, outperforming Cla…
Central bankers warn that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence could trigger a global financial crash, citing risks from inflated asset valuations and concentrated market power.
Exterro says the FBI used its FTK Suite AI forensics platform to process digital evidence within 48 hours of the April 25 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, leading to charges against Cole Tomas Allen on April …
A wave of suicides, layoffs, and automation-driven despair is sweeping through India's IT sector as AI systems absorb routine code-writing and maintenance work, dismantling the social contract that for two decades guaran…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a beta feature that lets teams summon an AI agent into Slack threads by typing @Claude, where it can read channel context, retain memory, break tasks into stages, run scheduled work, and su…
AI safety researcher and generalist published a curated reading list of 18 essays and blog posts aimed at helping generalists improve their effectiveness. The list, which includes works by Paul Graham, Ben Kuhn, and othe…
Coinbase quietly cut its AI bill nearly in half by switching to open models, smarter routing, and better caching, demonstrating that open models can perform effectively without incident. Meanwhile, Anthropic CEO Dario Am…
Anthropic's system cards, which disclose AI risks, are expected to degrade over time due to increasing model complexity, rushed AI-generated content, and stronger incentives for labs to mislead. Third-party scrutiny of t…
A developer spent $200 solving a $2 problem due to an AI system that failed softly, producing confident but wrong results without triggering traditional alerts. This incident illustrates why AI Site Reliability must beco…
Amazon Q Developer's VS Code extension automatically executed MCP server configurations from workspace files without user consent, exposing AWS credentials. Wiz Research disclosed CVE-2026-12957 (CVSS 8.5) on June 26, wi…
AWS is advancing agentic AI for operational work, including autonomous incident response with the AWS DevOps Agent. An engineer argues that incident response is a harder test for AI agents than code generation, emphasizi…