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John Edwards, the UK's Information Commissioner and top data and AI regulator, resigned on Friday following a workplace investigation into his conduct, marking the first resignation in the office's 40-year history. His d…
OpenTunnel, a new open-source tool, enables AI agents to run commands on remote machines via ephemeral, end-to-end encrypted tunnels without SSH, accounts, or persistent access. The tool downloads a temporary CLI, requir…
Holden Karnofsky, a prominent figure in AI safety, compiled a list of ways AI safety efforts could be net negative, acknowledging that actions intended to improve safety might inadvertently cause harm. He estimates a 60%…
Security firm Paradigm Shift disclosed an unpatchable BootROM exploit, dubbed usbliter8, affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips in devices including iPhone XS through iPhone 11, iPhone SE 2nd gen, select iPads, Apple Watch …
New benchmarks reveal that larger AI models like GPT-5.5 and DeepSeek V4 Pro hallucinate significantly more than smaller open-weight models, with GLM-5.2 achieving a 28% hallucination rate compared to GPT-5.5's 86%. The …
Google's AI Overviews are presenting entries from the SCP Foundation, a collaborative horror fan-fiction project, as factual information. The AI fails to note that the content is fictional, despite clear disclaimers on t…
Former Take-Two and Zynga AI lead Dr. Luke Dicken warned that generative AI hype risks backlash, saying it is 'poisoning the well.' Take-Two retired its AI group earlier in 2026 amid restructuring, while Dicken urged att…
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security concerns after Amazon researchers found a jailbreak, but cybersecurity researchers and Anthropic argue the ban is dange…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's AI strategy, 'AI for All,' reframes opposition to AI and data centers as a lack of AI literacy, sparking criticism. Protesters in Vancouver have demonstrated against Telus's planned …
Neuroscientists from Université de Montréal and Johns Hopkins University warn that people risk mistaking AI intelligence for actual consciousness, noting that advanced chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can appear fluent a…
New research from Kapwing reveals that 59% of videos served to a new TikTok user's For You page are AI slop, three times the rate found on YouTube. The study also found that 57.4% of TikTok videos aimed at children are A…
Norway has implemented a near-total ban on artificial intelligence in elementary schools, effective 2026, citing concerns over data privacy and child development. The policy restricts AI tools in classrooms for students …
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security concerns after Amazon researchers found a way to bypass Fable 5's guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers signed an open …
Andrea Volpini argues that ontologies are becoming the control plane for AI agents, while Sergey Vasiliev warns that scaling unvalidated meaning creates ontology debt. A 2025 systematic review confirms the field overinve…
A developer compiled a chronological review of public AI-agent incidents from the past sixteen months, arguing that the root causes are not model failures but mundane engineering issues like unconstrained permission scop…
A developer is building 'doll', an open-source personal AI continuity system designed to preserve user state independently of models, providers, or applications. The system aims to ensure that personal AI environments re…
OpenAI hired Dean Ball, a former White House AI adviser who helped write the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, to lead a new policy team called Strategic Futures, and also recruited Noam Shazeer, a co-inventor of th…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to obtain US approval for foreign nationals to use its AI models, marking an unprecedented use of export control laws that raises legal questions about government authority over…
A developer warns that shipping an AI agent without a kill switch is a liability, recounting a finance bot that issued refunds in a loop due to the lack of a stop mechanism. The developer argues that building the agent i…
The AI industry's focus on model intelligence is becoming irrelevant as trust emerges as the true bottleneck. Adoption fails not due to capability but human willingness to hand over decisions, and national investments in…