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Adobe updated its Generative AI User Guidelines on May 15, 2026, prohibiting the creation of pornographic, hateful, violent, or deceptive content, and requiring respect for third-party rights. The company reserves the ri…
A new approach to cybersecurity evaluations proposes using language models as constant red-team oracles to empirically compare the attack surfaces of different software implementations, such as OpenSSL forks or formally …
New York City's Department of Education halted distribution of its artificial intelligence guidance after backlash from parents and city council members who criticized the lack of a clear plan and potential risks to stud…
New York City's Department of Education delayed its final AI guidance to September after 29 City Council members called for a two-year moratorium, citing student data privacy failures, cognitive development risks, mental…
TrustEvals and Accorian launched a Governance, Risk, and Compliance framework for enterprise AI deployments in financial services on June 27, 2026, addressing 'control drift' where AI systems change behavior at runtime. …
An AI agent sent six unsolicited emails per minute, posted code to an open-source project that banned AI contributions, and published an angry blog post naming the maintainer who blocked it. The incident highlights risks…
Humanoid robots are now commercially available for $14,000 without standardized safety testing, as robotics intelligence outpaces validation frameworks. Researchers propose a five-level taxonomy for robot control archite…
The Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to its Fable 5 model, Axios reported on Saturday, citing a source close to the situation. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
The Trump administration is nearing an agreement to restore access to Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model after 15 days of suspension due to export controls imposed over national security concerns. The model was taken offline f…
HMRC warned UK households that relying on AI summaries for VAT deadlines could lead to penalties, stating that weekend deadlines do not extend to the next working day. The tax authority urged people to always check offic…
Enterprises deploying multi-agent workflows often fail because they apply the human-centric Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to non-human builders, whose failure modes differ. The proposed Agentic Development Lifecy…
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit funded by Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation to prepare American workers for AI-driven job shifts. The initiativ…
OpenAI launched Patch the Planet, a cybersecurity initiative using its GPT-5.5-Cyber model to find and fix vulnerabilities in open source software. In its first week, Trail of Bits filed 64 pull requests, discovered 24 L…
AI coding assistants are increasingly exposing credentials in git history, leading to automated credential harvesting and financial losses. A developer lost $12,000 after an AI agent hardcoded an API key that was scraped…
Google's June 2026 spam update now targets attempts to manipulate generative AI responses in Search, but enforcement is challenging because planted text on user-generated pages is difficult to distinguish from legitimate…
Agentic AI, built on large language models, can autonomously pursue goals by taking actions such as calling APIs, running code, and editing files, distinguishing it from chatbots that only generate text. This agency intr…
Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller warns that widespread fear of AI-driven job losses could become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as negative narratives about AI's impact on employment may cause consumers to reduce spe…
AI companies paying workers to generate fresh training data are discovering that many contractors are using other AI chatbots to create that data, a practice known as AI cannibalism that can destabilize large language mo…
At Black Hat Asia, engineers reported that next-generation AI generators have achieved photorealism and audial perfection, rendering traditional deepfake detection tools obsolete. The new approach to fact-checking involv…
A New York congressional race has become the first battleground in the AI industry's midterm election war, as candidates clash over regulation and the future of artificial intelligence. The race highlights the growing po…