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Sam Altman is reportedly discussing giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth roughly $320 per American household, to address concerns about AI benefiting from human work and to provide a safety net against la…
Cryptography expert Filippo Valsorda argues that hybrid signatures combining classical and post-quantum schemes are often not worthwhile due to hidden costs, despite their apparent simplicity. He states that pure ML-DSA …
A developer discovered that subagents in multi-agent AI systems can become orphaned zombie processes, continuing to run and incur costs long after their parent tasks complete. The issue stems from a lack of lifecycle man…
Mulot, an open-source AI agent framework, uses open-weights LLMs like GLM-5.2 to drive a headless Chromium browser with a Burp-style toolkit, achieving 87% on OverTheWire Natas and 73% on Root-Me Web-Server challenges. T…
Hesai Technology, a Chinese lidar maker partnered with Nvidia on autonomous-vehicle platforms, faces renewed U.S. cybersecurity scrutiny after being designated a Chinese military company. AUVSI CEO Michael Robbins cited …
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin launched Savi Security, a startup that protects consumers from AI-generated scams, after their mother nearly fell for a deepfake kidnapping ransom call. The company raised $7 million in…
A new Smarsh study finds 55% of enterprises are actively deploying AI, but only 26% have governance frameworks aligned with that pace, and just 30% can detect shadow AI. The research warns that rapid AI adoption without …
Anthropic published research on July 6, 2026, revealing that its Claude AI model contains a small set of internal neural patterns called J-space, identified using a Jacobian-based technique named J-lens. Editing these pa…
Investor Michael Burry fired back at President Donald Trump after Trump ridiculed short sellers at a White House luncheon, calling them "poor bastards" and saying they are "betting against the country." Burry responded o…
The Bank of England warned that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence poses growing risks to financial stability, citing potential for systemic shocks from opaque algorithms and concentrated market dependencies. …
CNCF Ambassador Lin Sun of Solo.io wrote on July 7, 2026 that sandboxing alone is insufficient for running large-scale AI agent fleets, contrasting the Kubernetes SIG Apps project agent-sandbox with the newer agent-subst…
Radware announced enhancements to its Agentic AI Protection solution, adding compliance reporting for global AI standards, improved visibility into agent ecosystems, and protection for developer-hosted AI agents includin…
Darktrace backed Anthropic's temporary restrictions on its Mythos and Fable AI models, arguing the move was motivated by security concerns rather than a competitive advantage against the UK. The brief export curbs, impos…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey is advocating for a collaborative approach between regulators and banks to address AI-driven cybersecurity threats, rather than imposing top-down regulation. The European Central Ba…
A former FBI agent urged a nationwide manhunt for a masked suspect in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case, calling for the suspect's image to be widely distributed. The 84-year-old woman disappeared from her Tucson home fi…
Enterprise data volumes are growing exponentially, driving up storage costs, expanding cyber attack surfaces, and undermining AI initiatives due to poor data quality. CIOs face the converging challenges of uncontrolled u…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's Mythos model to scan government code repositories for security vulnerabilities, uncovering numerous bugs. The National Security Agency…
Eight industry experts debate whether AI and flatter organizational structures are making managers obsolete or more essential, arguing that AI eliminates information-control roles but demands managers skilled in decision…
Google is suing a Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise that used Google's Gemini AI to automate phishing scams. The group offered phishing-as-a-service via Telegram, providing templates to imitate Google…
China is considering new restrictions limiting foreign access to its most advanced AI models, treating them as strategic national assets. The move escalates the tech cold war with the US, which has already imposed export…