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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…
Pew Research Center found that 66% of U.S. adults under 30 use AI chatbots, the highest of any age group, yet 48% of them believe AI will harm society, also the highest share. Heavy users are most worried because they se…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known distillation attack on its AI models, using 25,000 fake accounts to conduct 28.8 million exchanges with its Claude models. The AI company detailed the alleged …
Ford Motor Company issued a record 94 vehicle recalls in a single year after mistakenly assuming artificial intelligence could replace seasoned engineers without encoding their expertise. The automaker has since rehired …
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are funding RAISE US, a new nonprofit led by former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to retrain American workers for the AI economy. The group has raised over $500 million with …
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launches with over $500 million to retrain American workers for the AI era, partnering with states and major employers like Amazon and Microsoft to prevent catastrophic job losses.
ARENA (Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator) announced its ninth iteration, a 4-5 week ML bootcamp focused on AI safety, running in-person at LISA in London from October 5 to November 6, 2026. Applications are due by …
A security researcher developed Lattice Mind, a hybrid AI security agent combining deterministic scanners with LLM intelligence, which solved the hardest challenges from PicoCTF 2025 and DawgCTF 2026 in under 30 minutes …
A new anxiety called 'hybrid FOMO' is emerging as people fear being left behind in the partnership between natural and artificial intelligence, according to a Psychology Today article. The phenomenon combines fear of AI …
Scaled Cognition raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures to build AI models that do not hallucinate. The startup's APT model is designed with reliability engineered into its architecture, targeting…