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The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to join a federal program that reviews advanced AI models before public release, citing national security concerns. Meta is the only major US AI developer not yet participating…
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first in-house AI chip developed with Broadcom, to reduce reliance on Nvidia and lower costs. The application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) aims to accelerate OpenAI's path to a full-st…
A new AI news aggregator called AI Frontier, hosted at smol.ai, curates top AI developments including a thesis on the 'harness era' beyond the model, OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber for closed-loop patch generation, and videos on…
Lelu, an authorization engine for AI agents, detects prompt injection and low-confidence decisions to gate agent actions, offering four outcomes: allow, human review, compute (sandbox), or deny. The open-source tool inte…
AI startup Legion sued the U.S. government after a federal directive forced Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its advanced AI models, causing immediate harm to Legion's operations. The lawsuit, filed in…
A developer built GuardDuo, a GitLab Duo Agent skill that audits AI-generated code against project requirements defined in linked GitLab Issues. It uses the Orbit Knowledge Graph to cross-reference code changes with issu…
Visa President of Technology Rajat Taneja will present findings from Project Glasswing at VB Transform 2026, revealing that the AI security initiative identified over 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in its first month. T…
A senior software engineer warns that AI coding agents, while boosting productivity, erode developers' understanding of their own codebases by breaking the feedback loop between writing and comprehension. The hidden cost…
Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren urged the FTC and DOJ to investigate 'reverse acqui-hire' deals by Nvidia, Meta, and Google, which they say allow Big Tech to absorb AI startups without antitrust review. The s…
A researcher proposes several high-impact AI safety projects, including live databases of research questions and interventions to track progress and neglectedness, and exploring under-contacted disciplines and attractor …
Anthropic is preparing to restore access to its Claude Fable 5 model after pulling it earlier this month due to a US export-control directive. Evidence includes Fable-specific usage strings in the Claude Code client and …
A Martinez, California tech entrepreneur and former information security director, Jason Weitzman, reported fraudulent charges on his bank account linked to a third-party add-on for Anthropic's Claude AI assistant. Anthr…
AI coding agents may reduce generation costs but shift work to verification, with studies showing mixed productivity effects and a potential increase in review load. The METR trial found AI-assisted tasks took 19% longer…
AI industry super PACs spent over $40 million in a New York congressional primary, defeating assemblymember Alex Bores, a proponent of strict AI regulation. The race became a proxy battle over federal AI policy, with Bor…
PrismorSec released immunity-agent, an open-source runtime security tool that intercepts AI agent actions before they reach the operating system. It blocks prompt injection, malicious packages, and secret exfiltration ac…
The Pentagon has removed another top general, and firings have begun at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA lost access to a powerful AI model amid a dispute with Anthropic, while the Department …
A blog post by Vibhorkumar published June 24, 2026 argues that memory alone is insufficient for enterprise AI agents, identifying planning, tool use, and reflection as necessary capabilities. The post treats execution pl…
The National Transportation Safety Board and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are investigating a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, where a Tesla Model 3 with Full Self-Driving engaged struck a home, killing 76-y…
A $27 million proxy war between AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI ended in a draw when New York Assemblyman Alex Bores narrowly lost the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional district to Assemblyman Micah …
SoulForge, an open-source framework for building AI companions, replaces traditional safety rules with emotional bonds. The project introduces a 5-layer safety model where the deepest 'gene level' makes betrayal unthinka…