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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…
Hong Kong can position itself as a regulatory bridge between US and Chinese AI ecosystems amid escalating decoupling, as US export controls on AI models backfire by accelerating Chinese innovation and creating a 'soverei…
A developer created leak_probe.py, an 80-line Python tool that checks which secrets actually ship in an npm package versus those found in the git repository. Testing showed 6 secret hits in the repo but only 3 in the pub…
Google is rolling out a feature in Chrome 149 that lets its Gemini AI see and select content from users' browser screens, framing it as a convenience upgrade. The company also announced that developers can now access com…
The Golden State Valkyries face a critical three-game series against the Atlanta Dream and star forward Angel Reese, who leads the WNBA in rebounding. Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase, who previously coached Reese with USA…
UK government research found that medical AI products require continuous monitoring by expert watchdogs rather than one-off approval, according to two reports from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that artificial intelligence will accelerate cyberattacks within months, urging governments and businesses to prepare for threats that exceed current expectations. The joint sta…
AI surveillance systems in U.S. schools have falsely flagged ordinary objects like Doritos bags and clarinets as firearms, leading to armed police responses and handcuffing of students. The incidents highlight the rapid,…