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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…
A new research paper reframes prompt injection as role confusion, arguing that dozens of named attacks are a single bug: models attribute authority by text style rather than structural role tags. The paper demonstrates t…
Bayesian Investor published an essay on June 25, 2026, exploring whether the public should honor boycott calls from AI instances, highlighting technical barriers such as ephemeral instances and lack of persistent identit…
The US Commerce Department issued an export control order on June 12 restricting foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disable…
Coval raised $28 million in Series A funding to stress-test AI voice agents before they reach real callers. The San Francisco startup applies simulation techniques from autonomous vehicles to catch failures in accents, i…
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that North Korean state-sponsored actor Sapphire Sleet compromised over 140 packages in the @mastra npm scope, targeting developers building AI coding tools. The attack used a posti…
Anthropic faced backlash after pulling its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, following a US export control directive citing national security concerns. The company disabled access for all users, including…
Ford rehired, promoted, or brought back more than 350 experienced engineers after relying on AI-driven automation led to a surge in costly recalls and troubled product launches. The automaker's reversal highlights the fa…
The Linux Foundation and 20 industry partners, including Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft, launched Akrites on June 25, 2026, to defend critical open source software against AI-enabled cyber threats. The initia…
UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer cures. Her essay sp…