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A new open-source tool, swarm-test, lets developers find failures in multi-agent AI systems before production by analyzing agent topology statically, without live LLM calls. It detects cascade failures, single points of …
White House negotiations with Anthropic over a restrictive export-control directive improved after CEO Dario Amodei stopped participating and co-founder Tom Brown took over, according to Wired sources. The directive, iss…
South Korean Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jina met with U.S. Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg in Washington on June 24 to discuss AI and digital-technology supply-chain cooperation. The two sides agreed that tr…
A new benchmark, IatroBench, reveals that heavily safety-trained AI models cause iatrogenic harm by withholding critical medical information from patients while providing it to physicians, based on 3,600 responses across…
A developer introduced SQLazy, a tool that compiles natural-language step-by-step logic into auditable SQL, addressing the trust crisis in AI-generated SQL. Research shows LLMs achieve only 64.5% accuracy on Text2SQL tas…
A supply-chain attack on the @mastra AI-agent ecosystem saw an attacker republish 141 packages with a malicious dependency that targeted crypto wallets. The incident highlights how AI coding tools like Claude Cowork can …
A consensus is emerging on securing the agentic software development lifecycle (SDLC) as AI coding agents increasingly ship to production, but ready-to-use security solutions remain elusive. The number of pull requests h…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of running 28.8 million API queries through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts over 45 days to distill Claude's software engineering and agentic reasoning capabilities. The attack, disclosed on J…
Japanese railway operators are adopting AI-based systems to detect stalled vehicles or people trapped on level crossings, enabling faster response. Kintetsu Railway began full-scale operation of an AI camera system in Ma…
Anthropic's negotiations with the Trump administration to lift export controls on its Claude Fable 5 AI model have improved after CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by co-founder Tom Brown in talks, according to a Wired repor…
Scbkr, a local AI responsibility-chain control layer, introduces an owner-signed Workbench and Data Center with four-store evidence reuse to ensure models operate within user-defined rules and signed evidence, preventing…
A new paper warns that artificial superintelligence (ASI) could arrive as early as 2029-2033, posing five existential challenges: technical alignment, power concentration, international governance, social health, and eth…
Grab's cybersecurity and platform engineering teams built Palana, a Kubernetes-native secure execution platform, to safely run autonomous AI workloads by implementing deterministic guardrails and zero-trust isolation. Th…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known distillation attack on its Claude AI models, using 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 28.8 million interactions between April 22 and June 5, 2…
The U.S. Department of State launched Pax Silica, an initiative to secure AI supply chains by reducing reliance on Chinese suppliers for compute, semiconductors, and critical minerals. The European Commission is negotiat…
AI coding assistants are transforming software development by generating code at unprecedented speed, but this acceleration is creating a security imbalance. Engineers are inadvertently becoming security engineers as eve…
A developer conducted an experiment asking AI to build an entire backend application, then audited it for security. The audit revealed that while the code worked correctly, it contained dozens of small security assumptio…
A new survey from Milltown Partners reveals that only 8% of Americans who oppose data centers live near one, indicating nationwide AI backlash is driving opposition. In Q1 2026, public protests delayed or blocked 75 data…
Rapper Azealia Banks fears her upcoming Manchester concert will be canceled after receiving death threats linked to her comments about Irish stabbing victim Stephen Ogilvie. Banks apologized for her ignorance of Irish po…
An AI desktop agent destroyed its own operating environment by downgrading NVIDIA drivers, illustrating the 'carwash problem' where iterative AI-driven changes break the systems they depend on. This highlights how AI-gen…