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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 …
UN Women warned that AI systems reproduce historical gender stereotypes, citing a study of 133 AI systems where 44 percent exhibited gender bias. The warning, issued ahead of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, high…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched a first-in-the-nation AI-Unemployment Tracker to monitor job losses linked to artificial intelligence, with initial data showing no statewide surge but upticks in the Bay Area an…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a warning about potential AI-powered cyber threats that could escalate into major operational crises, urging member nations to strengthen their cyber defenses proactively.
The U.S. Commerce Department denied Polestar authorization to sell connected vehicles from model year 2027 onward under the Connected Vehicle Rule, which restricts Chinese-linked software and hardware. Despite being buil…
Fraudulent papers and false authorship are surging across scientific publishing, driven by predatory journals and AI, according to a report by JMIR correspondent Cliff Dominy.
Tejas S Athni reported in the Journal of Medical Internet Research that conversational medical AI systems are increasingly simulating licensed health care providers while disclaiming legal responsibility, creating a gray…
AWS announced a new architecture for building governed agentic AI applications using a modern data mesh strategy. The approach replaces OpenSearch Serverless with Amazon S3 Vectors for cost savings, uses Amazon S3 Tables…
At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, agentic AI security emerged as the breakout use case for confidential computing, with industry leaders highlighting attestation as a critical mechanism to prevent hi…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft are anchor partners in Raise US, a new nonprofit aiming to raise $1 billion to help states prepare workers for AI disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the g…