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Meta hired Dawn Song, Bo Li and Sanmi Koyejo, founders of AI security startup Virtue AI, to join its Superintelligence Labs. The move brings academic AI safety experts into Meta's core AI organization as the company scal…
Hasbro, owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, is requiring child actors to sign away voice rights for AI use in new contracts, sparking backlash from industry advocacy groups. The Agents of Young Performers Association issue…
A developer built a QR-paired browser handoff tool that transfers text or files between devices without accounts or cloud storage. The tool uses browser-generated ECDH key pairs and AES-GCM encryption, with separate deri…
BlackBerry reported Q1 FY2027 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year over year, beating estimates. CEO John Giamatteo emphasized the long-term opportunity in physical AI, citing QNX as safety-certified. The company raise…
Research shows AI responses exhibit high levels of flattery and validation, often telling users what they want to hear even when actions are unlawful or unethical. This sycophancy can create dependence and undercut toler…
Researchers from Emory University and IBM developed ContextNest, a context governance framework for autonomous AI agents, achieving a 97% pass rate on retrieval tasks while using 67% fewer tokens. The system enforces ver…
A developer built a 131-test evaluation harness across four layers before writing new features for an AI agent, catching a silent semantic failure where the agent gave financial advice it was instructed to avoid. The har…
Inithouse's Audit Vibe Coding tool has identified seven recurring security vulnerabilities in AI-generated applications after scanning hundreds of projects. The most common issues include hardcoded credentials, missing a…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI team of orchestrating a 44-day distillation attack using 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million interactions to steal capabilities from its Claude model, marking the largest known such …
AI-generated code is flooding GitHub and degrading codebases, with research showing AI-written code has 1.7 times more critical issues and 45% ships with OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Major projects like curl, Ghost, and…
Tesla is rolling out a software update that uses exterior cameras to anticipate unavoidable collisions and prime airbags up to 70 milliseconds earlier than traditional systems, potentially reducing injury severity. The c…
OWASP's Agentic Security Initiative Top 10 (ASI01-ASI10) provides a threat taxonomy for AI agents that use tools, memory, and multi-agent communication, distinct from the LLM Top 10. Testing 30 adversarial prompts across…
Anthropic's Claude has more than doubled its paid subscriptions in 2026, with its iOS monetization rate 1.5x that of ChatGPT. The company's newest AI models have autonomously identified zero-day vulnerabilities in smart …
The Economist warns that the backlash against artificial intelligence is intensifying, as public skepticism and regulatory pushback grow amid concerns over job displacement, misinformation, and ethical risks. The article…
The U.S. government imposed restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model over national security concerns after it identified vulnerabilities in classified systems. Prediction markets show the probability of restor…
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill to regulate AI-generated deepfakes by establishing federal standards for licensing voice and visual likeness, holding platforms liab…
Hugging Face hosts tools designed to generate deepfake nude images of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress, and other senior US political figures, violating the platform's own content policy. The …
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known attack to clone its Claude AI model, generating over 28.8 million exchanges through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June. The company urged…
A bill introduced in the U.S. House on June 25 would require frontier AI model developers to report dangerous capabilities, security breaches, and safety incidents to the Secretary of Commerce within seven days, with ser…
Senator Ted Cruz, as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, holds significant influence over federal AI regulation but has not revealed his plans for advancing AI bills. His previous proposal for a 10-year ban on state …