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Canadian organizations temporarily lost access to Anthropic's AI models during an outage, highlighting risks of relying on foreign AI providers. Experts say the incident underscores Canada's underinvestment in domestic A…
A study by RMIT University surveying over 16,000 adults across ten countries found that 14.5% have experienced sextortion, with 4.8% admitting to perpetrating it. The Australian eSafety Commissioner has launched an aware…
The NO FAKES Act, intended to combat harmful AI-generated impersonations, would instead suppress satire, commentary, and news by importing DMCA-style takedown rules, according to a coalition of civil society groups inclu…
A new Pew Research Center survey finds only 16% of Americans expect AI to have a positive societal impact over the next 20 years, while 40% expect negative effects. The survey also reports that 44% of U.S. adults use Ope…
The open-source curl project announced it will not process security vulnerabilities during July, drawing criticism from users who note billions of devices rely on the software daily. Critics argue that withholding securi…
A developer created leakproof, an open-source local proxy that intercepts outbound requests from AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and aider to scan and redact secrets before they leave the machine. The tool, rel…
The Trump administration's ban on Anthropic's advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 faces growing legal and expert scrutiny, with cybersecurity experts and legal scholars questioning the national security rationale. Th…
Leakproof, a local-first secret-egress firewall for AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor, launched on Hacker News. The tool intercepts outbound requests to redact or block secrets before they reach cloud APIs…
A new survey by the American Psychological Association finds that 77% of psychologists report patients using AI chatbots for mental health support, raising concerns about a 'sycophancy trap' where agreeable AI may valida…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged G7 leaders to avoid splintering on AI policy during a lunch in France attended by U.S. President Donald Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. The remarks followed…
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is requiring all new hires to demonstrate AI and data management skills, and existing employees must also undergo AI training, as part of a workforce rebuild after DOGE cuts. N…
Shede Mao, 55, has been charged with murder in the death of his wife at a South San Jose home, where he allegedly used a machete and dumbbells to kill her. The victim sent a friend a photo of her injuries before dying, a…
CEM888.AI announced that its agent Vetta achieved the highest published scores on the MemoryAgentBench benchmark at ICLR 2026, with 99.9% on AR Retrieval and 77.2% on BEAM Memory, outperforming GPT-4.1-mini and Hindsight…
AI experts and policymakers, concerned that the US is not a good-faith actor on AI safety, are advocating for a middle-power coalition to set safety guardrails, with some suggesting Canada could lead the effort.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for deeper US-EU cooperation on artificial intelligence at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, on June 17, hosting leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Mistral. Sh…
At the G7 Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concerns that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI models at any time, following the Trump administration's ban…
Anthropic updated Claude Design to integrate design and coding, allowing users to sync brand assets with Claude Code via a new "/design" command. The company also pulled its Fable 5 AI model after a US export control ord…
A new unified theory predicts that AI will bifurcate the workforce into a thriving, employable class and a struggling, unemployable class, based on individual mindsets and behaviors rather than background. The theory arg…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly questioned trust in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a Bloomberg interview, saying 'why argue with someone when you don't have the same vision and you don't trust them?' and adding 'we'll …
Truthout published an analysis on June 17, 2026, arguing that corporate news coverage frames artificial intelligence as a contest among elites, using the Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI lawsuit as an example. The piece…