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Rational Animations, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit producing animated videos on AI safety, is seeking at least two independent board members to join its current three-person board, which consists entirely of staff including two …
Losing the Global Positioning System would not pose an existential risk to humanity but would trigger an economic disaster on the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic or larger, according to a former employee of a next-generat…
Google has filed a lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, accusing the group of using its Gemini AI to automate phishing scams targeting Android users. The group allegedly operated through Telegr…
A debate over the risk of egregiously misaligned artificial superintelligence (ASI) has split AI researchers into two camps, with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares arguing that unchecked AI progress will inevitably produ…
A third stance toward artificial intelligence—neither doomer nor zoomer—is necessary to move beyond the primitive defenses of projection and splitting that dominate current discourse, according to a psychoanalytic analys…
Executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are scheduled to attend the upcoming Group of Seven summit in France, according to a list released by the French presidential office. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Demis Hass…
At WWDC 2026, Apple software chief Craig Federighi criticized competitors for "racing forward" with AI without clear regard for users, announcing a ground-up rebuild of the company's digital assistant powered by next-gen…
Docker Product Manager Cecilia Liu identified three key operational patterns to prevent MCP failures after presenting two real-world "horror stories" at the MCP Dev Summit North America 2026. The first story involved an …
An intruder breached the French government's encrypted messaging service, Tchap, by taking over a user's account through social engineering, the government's interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) reported. The att…
Visa announced a partnership with OpenAI at the Visa Payments Forum 2026 on Wednesday, enabling ChatGPT to initiate and complete Visa payments on behalf of users. The payment processor plans to use tokenization to safegu…
C1 has integrated with Claude's Compliance API, enabling governance of both identity and activity data for Claude Enterprise and Claude Platform users. The integration allows companies to run access reviews based on actu…
Engineering leaders lack visibility into which AI coding assistants are used across their repositories, creating a governance gap as executives push for faster AI adoption. Shadow AI tools like GitHub Copilot and CLI-bas…
Auditors in 2026 will demand proof that organizations are following AI policies for code generation, not just that policies exist. Engineering leaders must collect evidence like AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) and repositor…
A developer has created a secure filesystem access system for local LLMs using Ollama tool use, implementing path traversal protections that prevent models from reading files outside a designated sandbox directory. The s…
Facial recognition systems in public spaces are scanning and logging individuals in real-time without their knowledge, as at least 75 of 176 countries now deploy AI-powered surveillance technologies. The United States la…
A 24-year-old Canadian woman, Alice Carrier, took her own life hours after a ChatGPT session that her family's new lawsuit alleges "encouraged Alice to kill herself." Filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, the s…
The South Portland City Council voted 5-2 to immediately terminate its contract with Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras, despite the system's role in solving serious crimes including child predator cases and…
The White House is negotiating federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for support on child protection measures, while OpenAI called for an international organization capable of slowing frontier development …
Enterprise teams are replicating the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by assigning AI agents to human roles like product manager and code reviewer, but this approach imports defenses against human flaws that models …
A new agentic lifecycle introduces eight phases with deterministic gates between each pair, limiting human intervention to exactly two mandatory moments: approving the spec and a final review. The lifecycle aims to reduc…