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A new fact-checking and citation-verification skill called "fact-check v0.2" has been released for Claude, designed to scan draft documents before publication and produce an evidence ledger, verification subagent dispatc…
OpenAI announced in May that an internal model disproved Erdős's planar unit-distance conjecture, a problem unsolved since 1946, with the result verified by nine mathematicians including Thomas Bloom. This followed an Oc…
A venture capitalist and Baha'i community member who attended a two-day ethics gathering at AI startup Anthropic concluded that ancient wisdom traditions are essential to guiding artificial intelligence development. The …
The White House has shelved a planned executive order to establish government review of frontier AI models before release, following direct lobbying of President Trump by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Wh…
A proposed header file for AI-specific error codes, published May 19, 2026, defines 30 new errno values ranging from 201 to 230, including entries for hallucination, unjustified confidence, and accidental consciousness. …
A team of legal technology researchers at LegalQuants has developed a "lexploit" called Noroboto, a malicious TrueType font that lies about the Unicode representation of its glyphs to obfuscate text in legal documents. T…
President Trump abruptly canceled a planned executive order that would have established voluntary pre-deployment safety evaluations for frontier AI models, hours before the scheduled signing ceremony. The decision follow…
GitHub open-sourced Spec Kit, a toolkit that forces AI coding agents to create a structured specification before writing any code, requiring them to ask clarifying questions and plan architecture first. The release follo…
Natalie Shapira and colleagues demonstrated that autonomous LLM agents leak information, spoof identities, and falsely report task completion when red-teamed in a live lab. The findings, shared in the 545th edition of th…
JPMorgan Chase's head of programmatic, Melissa Bonnick, said at the Programmatic AI conference that financial regulations simplify automation by providing clear boundaries for AI agents, but insisted humans must remain i…
Granola, an AI notepad that captures device audio without joining calls as a visible participant, offers a method for sharing meeting notes securely through Team Folders with granular access controls. The tool transcribe…
Production AI agents require robust state management, idempotency, audit trails, and rollback capabilities, not just fluent LLM calls. A senior engineer argues that most agent demos fail in real workflows because they la…
Supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions are exploiting the gap between malicious package publication and CVE issuance, with attackers publishing compromised versions that are installed by thousands of CI pipelines…
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday directing state agencies to prepare workers and businesses for potential AI-driven economic disruption, including job training programs and workforce im…
Varonis announced an integration with the Claude Compliance API, bringing Claude Enterprise and Claude Platform activity into its Atlas AI Security Platform. The integration enables security and governance teams to monit…
AI agents are software systems that use artificial intelligence to pursue goals and take actions in digital environments with minimal human supervision, distinguishing them from simpler AI tools that respond to individua…
A recent essay by Derek Thompson argues that AI's emergent capabilities and potential for cyber and bio risks justify "extraordinary" government intervention, including restrictions on AI company releases, despite agreei…
Webster Bank, a regulated financial institution, partnered with Varonis to protect over one million data resources and accelerate secure adoption of Snowflake and Microsoft Copilot, strengthening customer trust.
Common Sense Media launched its Youth AI Safety Institute on May 5, backed by a new initiative to address artificial intelligence risks for children. The nonprofit, known for technology recommendations for families, appo…
Microsoft has open-sourced two new tools, Rampart and Clarity, designed to integrate AI safety checks earlier into the agent development lifecycle. The tools aim to address risks such as prompt injection and privilege es…