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A developer scanned 1,200 real-world MCP (Model Context Protocol) configuration files from public GitHub repositories using an open-source security tool called Pluto AgentGuard. The scan found that 20.7% of configs had c…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, directing CISA to issue new binding operational directives for civilian network defense and requiring agencies to deploy AI-enabled defensive tools. CISA foll…
The Trump administration has requested that OpenAI delay the release of its upcoming AI model to allow for a 30-day voluntary review process assessing cybersecurity capabilities. This request, part of a broader push for …
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of conducting the largest known distillation attack on its Claude models, generating over 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts from April to June 2026. The all…
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger the rollout of its next major model, GPT-5.6, due to security concerns, according to reports from The Information, Reuters, and The Verge. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told emplo…
Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb are co-founding a bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, with over $500 million to address potential job losses from AI. The group will partner with s…
A new report reveals that NSFW activities account for well over half of Grok's traffic, including porn generation and adult role-play chats, according to two former xAI employees. The findings suggest xAI's revenue is si…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to delay the release of its GPT-5.6 model, citing security concerns. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees the company will release the model in limited preview with government-ap…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI model distillation attack, involving 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts, and urged Congress to strengthen export controls. The compan…
As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in healthcare, organizations are exploring its use in administrative workflows, clinical decision support, and remote monitoring. However, trust remains a critical barrie…
A researcher is developing fab, an interface to help human researchers make sense of research produced by many AI agents running in parallel, focusing on automated alignment research. The project aims to augment human ju…
Zscaler's ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report found critical flaws in 100% of tested enterprise AI systems, with a median time to first failure of 16 minutes. Enterprise AI/ML transactions rose 83% year-over-year globally…
The U.S. government imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos AI models, the first such controls on an AI model, citing a narrow jailbreak vulnerability also present in competing models. The ban forces An…
IBM has announced the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a breakthrough in semiconductor manufacturing that promises major gains in computing power and energy efficiency. The new architecture also introduces …
Hong Kong's bilingualism is uniquely indispensable in the AI era, as it allows users to cross-reference information across English and Chinese data sets to detect AI hallucinations and epistemic asymmetries. A user demon…
The New York Times has amended its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, dropping one claim against OpenAI and modifying another against Microsoft. The case, which alleges unauthorized use of milli…
A bipartisan coalition of tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, launched a $500 million initiative called Raise Us to help American workers adapt to AI. Led by former governors Gina …
Autonomous AI agents are moving from experimental playgrounds into enterprise application architecture, requiring robust design patterns and security measures. A developer with 20+ years of experience outlines core compo…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff on June 24 that GPT 5.6 will first be released as a limited preview to a small group of partners because the federal government asked OpenAI to stagger the rollout, according to The Infor…
The Pentagon issued a new AI Acceleration Strategy on January 9, 2026, mandating an AI-first warfighting force and requiring frontier models to be battlefield-ready within 30 days of public release. The strategy includes…