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AI capability alone does not produce user delegation; trust does. A professional spends ten minutes reviewing an AI's draft but only one minute with a junior colleague's, because trust requires continuity, shared context…
Office Hours will host Glean CISO Sunil Agrawal on July 9 to discuss how AI compresses attack timelines, erodes traditional detection clues, and forces security teams to adapt with new processes and tools.
An engineer who runs three autonomous agents—an inbox classifier, a blog assistant, and Devin for code—reveals his simple rule for delegating actions: agents can do anything reversible and inbound unattended, but anythin…
Leaked documents from Russia's Social Design Agency reveal plans to build a network of Wikipedia-style sites, media outlets, and fake think tanks to manipulate search engines and AI chatbots with Kremlin-friendly narrati…
ARPA-H is selecting teams this month to build the first FDA-authorized agentic clinical AI system, ADVOCATE, which will autonomously write prescriptions, adjust medications, and provide 24/7 cardiovascular care. The FDA …
Parts of the National Security Agency lost access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model after the Trump administration imposed export controls on the company, disrupting NSA work involving the advanced AI tool. The access issue …
A senior U.S. official cited South Korea's physical isolation of government servers and data localization policies as barriers to AI advancement, urging a shift toward modernized digital regulations. Russ Headlee of the …
Nolan Hurd, 26, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the voluntary manslaughter of his girlfriend Nikha Marcella DeGuzman, who died from a gunshot wound at a Fremont hotel in January 2022. The case, which involved a m…
AI-backed super PACs are spending tens of millions of dollars to influence the midterm elections, mirroring the cryptocurrency industry's successful playbook. Two groups, Leading the Future (backed by Andreessen Horowitz…
The cybersecurity chiefs of the Five Eyes nations jointly warned on June 23, 2026, that frontier AI models will reshape cyberattacks within months, not years. The statement, published on CISA's site, urges organizations …
A 29-year-old bug in the Squid web proxy, dubbed Squidbleed (CVE-2026-47729), can leak cleartext HTTP requests including credentials and session tokens to authorized proxy users. The flaw, discovered with the help of Ant…
The European Union, along with the Netherlands, Germany, and Greece, joined the US-led Pax Silica initiative on June 23, expanding a supply chain security bloc focused on AI chips, critical minerals, and energy. The move…
A research team led by Alex Hakuzimana, Kayode Adekoya, and Michal Kubiak proposed a Democratic Coordination Framework to address the growing mismatch between rapid AI advancement and slow democratic governance. The stud…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers discovered five malicious skills on OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace between February and May 2026, including infostealers, evasion techniques, and novel agentic threats like runtime …
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' was released today, offering a critical perspective on AI hype and its societal impact. Doctorow argues that AI's real-world implementations have be…
Cate Blanchett launched the Human Consent Registry through her nonprofit RSL Media, allowing individuals in the US and EU to control how AI systems use their likeness. The registry lets users set consent levels for AI us…
Meta has paused an internal program that trained AI on employee data after a leak exposed keystrokes, private conversations, and transcriptions. The program, intended to improve AI models, was halted following the securi…
At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, leaders from Google, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and others advocated for decentralized AI to ensure data sovereignty, privacy, and security. They warned against dependen…
Meta has released new smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding, but its CTO Andrew Bosworth argues that privacy concerns will be resolved through 'social learning' rather than new safeguards. Critics note Meta has not adde…
AI superintelligence could undermine nuclear deterrence by enabling a state to achieve a technological leap large enough to execute a disarming first strike, rendering second-strike capabilities obsolete. The author argu…