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The Linux Foundation, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and other industry leaders launched Akrites, a coordinated effort to defend critical open-source software against AI-enabled cyber threats. The ini…
The Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launched Akrites, a coordinated initiative to patch vulnerabilities in open-source software before AI-powered attacks c…
Google integrated computer-use capabilities into Gemini 3.5 Flash, enabling AI agents to control browsers and desktop workflows. A Google DeepMind scientist warned that scaled AI agents create incentives for malicious ac…
A new non-profit organization, Raise Us, launched Thursday with over $500 million in funding from Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation to help US workers transition to an AI economy. Led by former gove…
Former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo launched RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit coalition to prepare the U.S. workforce for AI-driven job disruption. The initiative brings to…
US lawmakers introduced the AI Incident Reporting Act, requiring developers of advanced AI models to report safety and security incidents to the Commerce Department within seven days. The bill establishes federal oversig…
California launched a new portal to track AI-related job losses, serving as an early warning system for widespread job cuts due to artificial intelligence. The tracker, updated monthly, uses Unemployment Insurance claims…
Toyota's manufacturing principles of jidoka and kaizen offer a blueprint for controlling AI agents, replacing prompt-based guardrails with Continuous Enforcement (making recurring mistakes non-committable) and Continuous…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its upcoming model, GPT-5.6, initially releasing it only to a short list of trusted partners with customer-by-customer government approval. CEO Sam Altm…
Agentlint, a security scanner for MCP server configs, has been released to detect dangerous permissions, hardcoded secrets, and missing guardrails before deployment. The tool scans configuration files and assigns risk sc…
Two new reports from IAB and Integral Ad Science show that keyword-based brand safety blocking excludes 54% of video content unnecessarily, but multimodal AI can now evaluate video, audio, and images together to unlock p…
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced the Advanced AI Security Readiness Act, directing the NSA's AI Security Center to create an AI Security Playbook identifying vulnerabilities in AI data centers and countering…
AI now writes nearly all code at startups like Alma, Chainguard, and Wordsmith AI, with Anthropic's Claude Code as the dominant tool. Founders report massive speed gains but also warn of a 'cleanup tax' from bugs and slo…
Dawn Song, UC Berkeley professor and founder of blockchain Oasis, joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs as VP of AI Research on June 25, focusing on AI safety and security. Her departure from Oasis raises questions for RO…
Nearly one-third of workers keep their AI use secret from employers, fearing job cuts or seeking a competitive edge, according to Ivanti research. This hidden productivity creates a measurement gap for boards, as employe…
A factory's control loop breaks when documents cross organizational boundaries, as verification mechanisms cannot travel with the artefact. The sender's closed loop becomes an open loop for the receiver, who inherits unv…
Mythos, a frontier AI model, is a signal of changing cyber offense and defense economics, not a siren of immediate new risks, according to a CISO. The model accelerates work for both attackers and defenders, but most bre…
The AI 2027 Tracker, a project tracking predictions from the AI 2027 scenario, reports that several key milestones have been confirmed or are emerging, including the completion of a frontier model trained at 10²⁷ FLOP in…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 rollout now requires U.S. government approval on a customer-by-customer basis, following a request from the government. CEO Sam Altman stated this is not a preferred long-term model, as AI labs fear a de…
Cecuro AI published a blog post on building effective penetration testing agents, detailing methodologies for automating security assessments using AI-driven agents. The post outlines key components and strategies for de…