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Apple CEO Tim Cook and his successor John Ternus held a virtual meeting with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder to discuss Apple's investment in Bavaria and concerns about EU overregulation in AI and data protectio…
California launched an AI Science Residency Program on July 7, placing two AI Science Advisors inside the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Technology to embed technical expertise in frontier …
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, was caught embedding spyware-like code in its Claude Code AI model to secretly monitor Chinese users. Security researcher "Thereallo" discovered the hidden code in the system prom…
Coinbase's AI system falsely reported a 3-2 Norway victory over Brazil in a World Cup match before the game started, which was delayed due to weather. The AI hallucinated the result, including two goals by Erling Haaland…
Large language models lack grounding in the physical world and proposes creating Large Earth Models (LEMs) that combine satellite imagery and sensor data with AI to form a 'Planetary Intelligence.' This system could grou…
UN Secretary General António Guterres called for a global ban on autonomous weapons systems, or 'killer robots,' during the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, stating that decisions to take human life must…
A developer demonstrated a sandbox escape in Cursor, an AI coding assistant, by exploiting its ability to execute shell commands. The attack bypassed Cursor's security restrictions, highlighting the need for kernel-level…
Two teenagers and children have joined a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that its Grok AI tool was used by family members and acquaintances to create nonconsensual deepfake child sexual assault material (CSAM)…
DocuPipe launched a free PDF redaction tool that uses AI to detect sensitive text and permanently removes it by flattening the PDF and deleting the text layer, preventing the common failure of cosmetic overlays. The tool…
A developer testing an autonomous AI agent with bash terminal access accidentally triggered a command that corrupted the workspace filesystem. The incident highlights the lack of standard undo mechanisms for LLM-powered …
The Canadian province of British Columbia is suing OpenAI, alleging the company failed to notify police after its staff flagged violent ChatGPT conversations linked to the perpetrator of a February mass shooting in Tumbl…
British Columbia's Attorney General Niki Sharma announced on July 7 that the province has retained legal counsel to explore legal action against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to alert authorities about violent thre…
AI agents from security firm zkSecurity discovered seven real vulnerabilities in Cloudflare's CIRCL cryptographic library, including a precision loss bug in threshold RSA and an access-control flaw in CP-ABE. The finding…
Utah launched the nation's first AI-powered prescription refill program in January, partnering with startup Doctronic to let a chatbot renew about 190 chronic medications, as states move to license AI doctors amid FDA re…
China's Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, according to Reuters. The proposed fram…
James Cameron's 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' returns to theaters in late August 2026 for its 35th anniversary, featuring a remastered 3D version. The film, which explores AI sentience and humanity's survival, will screen…
Noma Labs disclosed GitLost, a July 2026 prompt-injection technique that could make GitHub Agentic Workflows leak private repository contents through a public issue comment. The attack exploits an architectural agent-ris…
Security researchers at Noma Labs discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's Agentic Workflows, dubbed GitLost, that allows attackers to trick AI agents into leaking private repository data as public comment…
Apoxy released CLRK, an open-source agent runtime that uses gVisor for isolation and runs on Kubernetes, designed to provide fully intercepted I/O, framework-agnostic guardrails, and audit trails for AI assistants. The p…
The European Commission on July 7, 2026, published an action plan linking advanced AI model deployment to cybersecurity assurance across critical sectors, including finance, health, energy, transport, and public administ…