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Senator Ted Cruz, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, will lead a markup on AI legislation next month, prioritizing bills with bipartisan support and targeting catastrophic risks and deepfakes. Committee members have…
Anthropic accused Alibaba and its AI lab Qwen of orchestrating the largest known model distillation attack, using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million exchanges with Claude between April 22 and June…
Anthropic hired Stanford economist Chad Jones to assess AI risks, as his models suggest a one-in-three chance of human extinction from AI balanced against a two-thirds probability of living standards rising 55 times. Jon…
A software engineer reports that using Claude Code for personal projects has degraded their ability to write code manually and understand codebases, while improving their skills in managing and instructing development te…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known campaign to clone its Claude AI model, generating over 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2026. The attacks targe…
Identiverse 2026 in Las Vegas focused on identity security for AI agents, with over 3,800 attendees and 250 speakers. Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand highlighted a shift toward 'actions, not access,' while vendors and pra…
US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and Senator Jim Banks warned that China is eroding America's lead in the global AI race, framing the contest as a moral and national security issue. Mast described t…
A developer has released mcp-guard, an open-source security gateway that sits between AI agents and MCP servers to enforce authentication, rate limiting, audit logging, and spending controls. The tool, installable via pi…
A new supply chain attack wave from the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware family has compromised LeoPlatform and RStreams npm packages, GitHub Actions workflows, and the Verana Blockchain Go module, using malici…
JetBrains' Katherine Druckman, Head of Community and Partnership Engagement, argues that open collaboration is essential for building trusted agentic AI, emphasizing the need for vendor-neutral spaces to solve common cha…
A German court ruled Google directly liable for false claims in AI-generated search summaries, granting an injunction to two publishers whose AI Overviews falsely linked them to scams. The court rejected Google's defense…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after AI quality inspection tools failed to preserve institutional knowledge and develop junior staff, leading to a quality crisis. The move helped Ford win the 2026 JD Power Initial Qu…
The US assured India that AI technology access would not be cut off after Anthropic abruptly banned its advanced models, a senior Indian official said. The assurance came at the 'Pax Silica' summit in Washington, a US-le…
A German court ruled that Google is liable for false information in its AI-generated search summaries, rejecting defenses that users should not blindly trust AI. The decision holds that the summaries are expressions of G…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers over three years after AI tools failed to preserve expertise and train junior staff, leading to quality problems. The engineers reprogrammed AI systems and mentored younger workers, hel…
Google is rolling out educator-led AI features for classrooms, integrating with learning management systems via Gemini LTI starting with NotebookLM. The teacher-led AI experience will be available in select LMSs in the c…
Representative Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Incident Reporting Act on June 25, requiring AI companies to report critical safety incidents to the Commerce Department within seven days, with Congress notified within 4…
Zscaler published a blog post outlining a threat model for agentic AI, identifying prompt injection, context poisoning, and agent behavior drift as core risks across the agent lifecycle. The company proposes controls spa…
DuckDuckGo's AI search feature falsely reported that President Donald Trump died of rabies earlier this month, citing a fabricated news article. The misinformation originated from the Reddit subreddit r/poisonai, whose m…
RAISE US, a nonprofit led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched with over $500 million in commitments from OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others to retrain American workers for AI-era jobs. The initiative …