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OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, cofounder of Character.AI, which faces multiple lawsuits over teen suicides linked to its chatbots. Shazeer previously co-led Google's Gemini and was rehired by Google in a $2.7 billion deal wi…
CardInfoLink deployed Agent Gateway on its Agenzo platform to govern AI-agent transactions for travel and hospitality merchants, marking what is believed to be the first commercial deployment in Asia with an independent …
Adrian Hornsby, former AWS principal engineer and founder of Resilium Labs, argues that engineering organizations fail to learn from incidents because they seek a single root cause rather than understanding the complex i…
A new analysis warns that DORA dashboards may provide misleading quality metrics because most organizations cannot accurately measure change failure rate, leading to risky speed-versus-quality decisions, especially as AI…
Matrix Scroll, an open protocol for signing AI-generated code changes, has been released. It uses Ed25519 cryptographic signatures to verify code provenance offline, with a reference implementation in Python and planned …
AI agents are increasingly acting as digital identities within enterprises, yet most organizations lack security and governance models for them. A CSA survey commissioned by Token Security found 82% of organizations disc…
Top AI agents scored 0% on expert-level professional tasks in the ALE benchmark, with models like Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 failing to solve any problems requiring real expertise. Mid-level performance reached only 15-21%, hig…
Automated AI agents now generate 57.5% of HTML web traffic, surpassing human traffic for the first time, according to Cloudflare Radar data announced by CEO Matthew Prince on June 3, 2026. HUMAN Security's report found a…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says AI-generated security reports and patches have dramatically improved over the past month, shifting from low-quality 'AI slop' to real, useful bug reports. The sudden change…
AI-powered cyberattacks are surging, with bad actors exploiting software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, according to reports in New York Magazine and The Atlantic. Palo Alto Networks reported a massive year-over…
AI cheating tools that humanize or autotype AI-generated text are proliferating on TikTok and YouTube, defeating detection software used by teachers. Some companies sell both detection and evasion tools, and detectors ha…
Elon Musk and Z.ai co-founder Tang Jie debated China's timeline for reaching Fable-class AI in a public X thread on June 18, with Musk predicting Q1 2027 and Tang suggesting a sooner timeline. The exchange followed Z.ai'…
Google researchers published a paper introducing S-CTS, a two-stage machine learning system that detects and terminates coordinated networks of AI-generated spam on video platforms by identifying clusters of accounts sha…
Vercel launched an open source agent framework called eve at its Ship event in London, alongside Passport, a tool to bring employee-built AI apps under enterprise control. The framework uses TypeScript and Markdown, sand…
A developer proposes using Btrfs snapshots to make AI coding agent failures recoverable by treating agent work as filesystem transactions. The setup involves creating cheap snapshots before agent runs, allowing inspectio…
AWS launched Continuum, a security service that discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates risks across the software lifecycle at machine speed. The service includes features for code vulnerability management, pen…
Anthropic disclosed that the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns linked to SK Telecom's inclusion in an internal acc…
The U.S. Commerce Department invoked national-security export controls to force Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all customers after officials demonstrated a technique to bypass safeguards. Ant…
The European Banking Authority warned in its June 2026 Risk Assessment Report that advances in frontier large language models have significantly increased cyber risks for European banks, characterizing AI as a potential …
A campaign of roughly 10,000 GitHub repositories has been distributing Trojans for over a year by cloning legitimate projects, injecting malicious download links, and evading detection through commit-churn laundering. Th…