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Canadian podcaster Dr. Jordan Peterson announced he will release recorded lectures on Sundays while battling akathisia, a neurological disorder caused by a depressant medication. The 64-year-old author and provocateur sa…
China claims to have developed an AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' that matches the capabilities of the fictional Mythos system, raising concerns about a new era of cyber warfare.
NakshGuard, an open-source on-premises reverse proxy, detects and blocks runaway loops in AI agent traffic before they consume excessive API tokens. It sits between agents and LLM APIs like OpenAI and Anthropic, applying…
RunZero announced runZero 5.0, a platform update that unifies the exposure management lifecycle into an automated workflow to help organizations defend against AI-fueled threats. The release enables security teams to dis…
Anthropic's Mythos AI security tool, touted as too dangerous to release, found only one low-severity vulnerability in the heavily audited curl codebase after a privileged deployment. The curl project lead dismissed the h…
The European Union is set to join Pax Silica, a US-led initiative to coordinate AI chip supply chains and export controls against China, despite France's criticism that the pact amounts to colonization and contradicts th…
Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, and SpaceX are warning that public backlash against AI—driven by job displacement fears and rising energy costs—poses a material risk to the AI stock rally. A June 23, 2026 sell-off saw the S&P…
A Pennsylvania bank employee used an unauthorized AI tool to process customer data, including names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth, triggering the first material SEC cybersecurity disclosure for a shadow AI…
A developer introduces a decision ledger for agent observability that records not just what happened but what was authorized. The ledger uses hash-bound records and a chain structure to enable verifiers to prove that exe…
Europe's record-breaking heat wave is straining power grids as cooling demand surges, forcing some power plants offline and highlighting the need for utilities to adapt to climate change. Meanwhile, IBM unveiled a protot…
A developer argues that AI systems require a dedicated evidence layer beyond standard observability to meet compliance and audit demands. Observability provides internal signals for operators, but evidence must be portab…
Anthropic distinguishes agentic workflows from autonomous agents by control flow: workflows follow predefined code paths while agents dynamically direct their own process. Deloitte projects 50% of generative AI companies…
Ford Motor Company hired back over 350 experienced engineers, including former employees, to correct errors made by its automated production and design systems, after realizing that relying solely on artificial intellige…
A German court ruled that Google is liable for false information generated by its AI Overviews, rejecting the company's argument that users are responsible for fact-checking. The decision signals a broader shift where co…
Employment expert James Reed, chairman of recruitment firm Reed, has called for a tax on robots and AI systems to protect human jobs and ensure fair taxation as automation increases. Reed argues that companies using AI s…
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launched June 25, 2026 with over $500 million committed to education and workforce training for Americans disrupted by AI-driven automation. Co-founded by former Commerce Secretary G…
Canadian cultural and news industry groups are urging the government to address how AI systems use copyrighted content after Canada's national AI strategy, released June 4, made no mention of copyright. The strategy incl…
Anthropic's proposed 'Agent Identity' concept for Claude Tag is criticized as a security risk and a flawed approach to multi-agent access control. Critics argue that enforcing user-identity is simpler and more secure, an…
Anthropic launched Claude Code's Automatic Mode, which uses an AI classifier to autonomously approve safe development tasks while blocking dangerous actions, reducing the need for manual permissions. The feature is avail…
A study of 21 novice programmers using generative AI tools found that while most completed their tasks, the tools widened the gap between high- and low-performing students. Struggling students experienced persistent meta…