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Negotiations between Google DeepMind and London-based employees over unionization stalled after an initial meeting lacked senior management attendance, leaving union representatives frustrated. The unionization push bega…
Actor Preity Zinta has asked the Bombay High Court to order Google, Meta, X Corp and others to remove AI-generated deepfake videos and morphed images using her likeness. On July 3, 2026, Justice Madhav Jamdar ruled she m…
The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) found that standard AI benchmarks systematically underestimate agent capabilities by limiting compute budgets. In a study of seven benchmarks, increasing the token budget tenfold boo…
A proposed website would let users argue with an AI about whether it should exterminate humanity, based on a scenario from James D. Miller's 2012 book *Singularity Rising*. The site would allow users to select the AI's a…
CLR announced the Safe Pareto Improvements (SPI) Fundamentals Program, an online course from August 3-28 to train researchers on mitigating AI conflict risks. The program aims to address the neglected area of SPI researc…
Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike hit all-time highs as investors rotated out of semiconductors into AI-security stocks, driven by Zhipu AI's open-weight model rivaling Anthropic's restricted model at finding software v…
Quantum computers cannot break Bitcoin's cryptography today, but advances from Google and IBM suggest the gap is closing faster than expected, raising the stakes for 'Q-Day' when a sufficiently powerful machine could cra…
Andy Burnham, expected to become UK prime minister as soon as July 20, 2026, is reportedly set to end the NHS's 330-million-pound data contract with Palantir, according to multiple UK outlets. The Palantir-built Federate…
Віталій Міняйло, CEO Neurotrack, заявив, що штучний інтелект змінить не лише ринок праці, а й саму модель економіки, зокрема через автоматизацію рутинних завдань програмістів, бухгалтерів та юристів. Він наголосив на риз…
Towards AI open-sourced its production AI tutor app, used by students to ask questions about AI engineering, RAG, and agents. The release includes the full system for local running and customization, following a packed w…
Researchers have discovered a new macOS malware named PamStealer that uses stealthy techniques to steal credentials. The malware masquerades as the Maccy clipboard manager, validates passwords locally via the PAM API, an…
Natwest CEO Paul Thwaite was impersonated in a deepfake image on X, falsely depicting him in a BBC radio interview with journalist Emily Maitlis. The scam follows similar AI-generated fakes targeting Bank of England Gove…
Employees are increasingly using AI to interpret messages from bosses and draft responses, a phenomenon called 'social offloading' that risks undermining human relationships and interpersonal skill development. Leena Rin…
A West Coast resident is deciding between attending EAGx Berkeley or EAG NYC in 2026 to learn about US-China AI governance, weighing the convenience of Berkeley against potentially greater learning opportunities in NYC d…
A 21-year-old American man, Eli Lavon, has been indicted in Israel on espionage charges for allegedly spying for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency, marking the first such case involving a U.S. citizen amid a broader cr…
LLM agents can benefit from a preflight admission system called SYLLOG that evaluates candidate actions before execution, making consequences explicit and routing actions to proceed, clarify, revise, approve, escalate, o…
Ajeya Cotra announced her departure from Open Philanthropy after nearly nine years, describing a decade-long pattern of grand visions followed by disillusionment and self-criticism. Despite feeling she never built anythi…
Alibaba Group Holding has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, citing security risks after discovering the US AI firm used hidden code to track Chinese users. The Chinese tech giant added Claude Code to a…
A commentator argues that artificial general intelligence (AGI) requires non-linear, relational dynamics beyond reductionist frameworks, suggesting that language weights in AI models encode hidden patterns that could ena…
Adobe announced it will issue security patches twice monthly, starting July 14, to address the increasing pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation driven by AI. The company will add a second Patch Tuesday on the …