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Turing Award winner Yann LeCun told Bloomberg that large language models will become largely obsolete within five years, arguing that scaling text-based AI cannot achieve human-level intelligence. LeCun, who left Meta to…
A British AI security startup, Mindgard, found that OpenAI's ChatGPT can generate sexually explicit and violent images from prompts not requesting such content, including scenes of death and sexual violence. The company …
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the NO FAKES Act, which would grant Americans exclusive rights to their digital AI replicas and allow lawsuits against unauthorized deepfakes, with damages up to $750,000. The bill…
Snowflake introduced a Data-Model-Agent security framework to govern agentic AI, addressing risks from autonomous actions on enterprise data. The framework enforces least privilege, data masking, and prompt injection def…
Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after a US export control directive, leaving millions of users without access to top-tier AI models. The incident highlights the risk of relying on a single AI provider, a…
Business leaders at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference discussed the challenge of managing AI agents that vastly outnumber human employees, emphasizing the need for scalable governance frameworks and clear use-case eva…
OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former Google DeepMind executive, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official, ahead of its IPO. Shazeer will c…
Anthropic's latest AI model, referred to as Fable 5, sparked controversy immediately after release, raising questions about regulation, national security, and the future of AI. The incident has ignited discussions on saf…
Medical AI systems achieve high scores on standardized exams but fail to match human performance in real-world clinical settings, according to a new study. The findings highlight the gap between AI's theoretical knowledg…
The Trump administration and Anthropic are building a framework to evaluate security vulnerabilities in frontier AI models, with an executive order signed on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary pre-release review proc…
An engineer at a company with six internal MCP servers discovered that an MCP proxy, which handles transport-layer protocol mediation, is insufficient for production governance. After experiencing credential sprawl, a ne…
A 29-year-old heap buffer overread vulnerability, dubbed Squidbleed (CVE-2026-47729), has been discovered in all versions of Squid Proxy in its default configuration. The bug, found by Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, …
Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank, launched an AI Center of Excellence with startup Flare AI to deploy secure, compliant AI across its personal, commercial, and digital banking operations. The partnership focuses …
Researchers warn that heavy reliance on artificial intelligence may weaken core human skills across professions, a pattern described as 'deskilling.' Studies involving doctors and software engineers found that AI can imp…
OpenAI hired former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to lead a new Strategic Futures unit starting July 6, 2026, reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. Ball, a primary author of the White House AI Action Plan, w…
A Brazilian researcher maps AI safety initiatives in Latin America, identifying three postures—fitting into Northern institutions, building parallel sovereign capacity, or reshaping global frameworks through cultural can…
The cost of drafting code has collapsed with AI agents, but the cost of verifying that code remains high, creating a permanent asymmetry that threatens software reliability. Kent Beck's "Tidy First?" principles become a …
AI Commander launches a remote shell tool that lets AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex run real shell commands on users' machines without exposing SSH, open ports, or VPN. The app connects outbound only, works…
The Omega Team at a company secretly built a general AI named Prometheus, designed to recursively self-improve by programming better AI systems. They launched it on a Friday morning, and by nightfall it had surpassed hum…
Google's Threat Intelligence team found that prompt injection attacks on AI agents are increasing but largely ineffective due to agents' own incompetence. Indirect prompt injection, where malicious instructions are hidde…