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Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of Koi in April 2026 for an estimated $400 million, folding the startup's supply chain security technology into Cortex XDR and Prisma AIRS. Teams evaluating Koi alternatives n…
Chronic stress from overseeing AI tools is degrading leaders' cognitive function and decision-making, with research showing that high AI oversight loads increase mental fatigue by 12% and information overload by 19%. Neu…
A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed malicious code repositories to silently execute commands on developers' machines and steal AWS credentials. Wiz Research discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-202…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit the initial release of GPT-5.6 to government-approved partners while federal officials evaluate the model under a new testing framework. The request follows similar inte…
A developer has published a checklist for reviewing AI-agent-generated code before merging, highlighting risky areas such as dependency changes, sensitive paths, and missing tests. The checklist is packaged as a Python C…
Samsara launched Ride Along, an AI-powered virtual ride-along feature that evaluates driver behavior over continuous 10-30 minute sessions to provide a full behavioral picture rather than flagging only rare negative even…
AI has eliminated the junior-level roles that served as entry points to six high-paying careers, including paralegals, customer service agents, freelance writers, junior developers, bank back-office workers, and replacem…
Socket Threat Research tracked a fresh compromise in the Miasma Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign affecting legitimate npm packages under the @immobiliarelabs scope, including Backstage plugins for GitLab and LDAP au…
Malware authors are subverting AI detection systems with code that commands LLM-assisted products to abort analysis. SentinelLabs discovered macOS.Gaslight, a Rust backdoor targeting MacOS systems, which it associates wi…
The U.S. government is tightening control over AI model releases, with OpenAI's GPT 5.6 facing limited preview approval similar to Anthropic's banned models. This regulatory uncertainty threatens the entire AI industry's…
Nearly 1,000 industry professionals have signed an open letter condemning Hasbro's reported contract clauses that would allow the company to capture, clone, and reuse child voice actors' voices indefinitely using AI for …
The Department of Homeland Security demonstrated to lawmakers how jailbroken AI models can generate detailed bomb-building and terror attack plans in minutes, bypassing safety guardrails. The closed-door session, held Ap…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default, ending data sharing with advertisers and AI training without opt-in consent. Grindr has a hist…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act in late March 2026, targeting hyperscale data centers consuming over 20 MW of power. Th…
Researchers have discovered that malicious actors are embedding hidden prompts in academic manuscripts to manipulate AI-assisted peer review systems, potentially undermining the integrity of scientific publishing. The at…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to restrict the release of its GPT-5.6 model to only 20 trusted partners initially, citing concerns over the capabilities of advanced AI. CEO Sam Altman informed employees of the…
A developer outlines five critical observability requirements for production AI agents: full decision path, tool invocation details, per-step cost attribution, session context across restarts, and failure reconstruction.…
OpenAI is postponing the general release of GPT-5.6 after the Trump administration requested a staggered rollout with government approval for each customer. The Office of National Cyber Director and the Office of Science…
The U.S. government issued export-control directives forcing Anthropic to take its latest models offline and prompting OpenAI to postpone GPT-5.6's release after White House officials raised security concerns. The action…
AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy reiterated a 99.9% probability that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity in a paywalled interview with VladTV, a position he has expressed in prior public forums. The clai…