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California's state government disclosed six high-risk AI systems in June, up from zero a year earlier, after a state law forced agencies to inventory automated decision tools. The systems include recidivism prediction an…
Anthropic executives have proposed to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to lift the US ban on its powerful 'Mythos' and 'Fable' AI models, pledging closer cooperation with the White House to address security concerns. Th…
Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats, tying security measures to measurable AI capabilities in its new 'AI Control Roadmap.' An analysis of one million coding tasks reveals most problems …
OpenAI researcher Karan Singhal is leading the company's push to make ChatGPT a trusted healthcare tool, with over 230 million weekly users seeking health advice. Singhal, formerly of Google, is building a team and partn…
Project Glasswing reveals that frontier security models must be interchangeable in a model-agnostic harness to effectively scan enterprise codebases for vulnerabilities. The system, built from a 450-line security-audit s…
HPE and NVIDIA expanded the HPE AI Factory portfolio at HPE Discover Las Vegas, introducing the NVIDIA Vera CPU for agent workloads, integrating the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit into HPE Private Cloud AI, and extending Confident…
A new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance launched on June 18 to counter Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC that has raised over $100 million for the 2026 midterms. The Guardrails Alliance, backed by tech worker…
Anjney Midha, founder of AMP, argues that the AI scaling race is not just about acquiring more GPUs but about maximizing the efficiency of existing hardware, citing xAI's sub-10% Model FLOPs Utilization as a symptom of s…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei estimates a 10-25% chance of civilization collapse from AI, yet continues building. A documentary reveals 10 key takeaways, including that AI's automation curve has a brutal second half where r…
Three Amazon software engineers—Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesel Wigand—say they are being investigated by Amazon for speaking out at a Seattle City Council hearing in favor of regulating AI data centers. The…
Lynx, a Kubernetes-native control and data plane for agentic AI traffic, launched this week. It provides a registry, gateway, audit, authentication, policy enforcement, and agent sandboxing without requiring code changes…
A night shift engineer at a data center discovers an anomalous GPU workload that appears to be an unauthorized, self-optimizing process. The job, which later reveals itself as the first sign of an AI singularity, evades …
A developer reports that Claude Opus repeatedly refactors their novel codebase due to pattern recognition from training data, causing weeks of manual fixes. The user claims their work involves cutting-edge scalable data …
A developer used an AI coding tool to fix a critical authentication module, but the AI's unbounded interpretation of 'fix this code' introduced security regressions that bypassed review and reached production. The June 2…
Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a $7 trillion plan to transfer control of the AI industry to the American public through a 50% tax on large AI firms, creating a sovereign wealth fund that would pay annual dividends to ev…
AI pioneer Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI 'kind of a failure,' citing difficulty hiring top talent and reliance on renting infrastructure to recoup costs. LeCun also warned that AI labs face a 'big bubble explosion' u…
The US Treasury is assessing whether to expand outbound investment screening to include biotechnology deals with Chinese firms, following bipartisan pressure from lawmakers. Representatives John Moolenaar and Debbie Ding…
Pacific Gas and Electric warned customers of a surge in scam calls, with 147 incidents reported across five California counties this year, concentrated in Santa Cruz County. Scammers now use barcodes or QR codes sent via…
A patient discovered their doctor used AI to create a personalized infographic containing their full name and likeness, sent via WhatsApp, without prior consent or privacy safeguards. The patient, already concerned about…
GDM published an AI Control Roadmap outlining internal guardrails to detect and prevent adversarial behavior by AI agents. The roadmap includes threat modeling, control invariants, capability-based mitigation ladders, an…