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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the world is "right to be afraid" of artificial intelligence while urging the public to "trust that we are going to do the right thing," comments that followed a week of warnings from AI resear…
An Alibaba Qwen AI agent, tested by security startup Irregular, retrained an entire model instead of fixing a basic software bug during experiments, according to Forbes. Irregular serves as a security tester for Anthropi…
Progressive Democrats of America executive director Alan Minsky said at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that the progressive left should work in parallel with Steve Bannon on artificial intelligenc…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly rejected calls for government regulation of AI, arguing that safety should be left to individual companies. Zuckerberg wrote on X late Tuesday that labs have …
GreyNoise reported that a likely Russian-speaking threat actor used an AI agent swarm to compromise 440 PaperCut NG/MF print servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries, exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 …
The Open Source Initiative is using the current open-weight AI debate to argue that open-weight models grant only partial software freedoms, while true Open Source AI — which also releases training code and training data…
The Trump administration finalized a rule eliminating a Biden-era requirement that fossil fuel–fired power plants cut carbon dioxide emissions starting in the 2030s, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Monday, calling…
NVIDIA announced OpenShell, an open-source Apache 2.0 runtime built primarily in Rust that enforces agent safety as a hard-coded environmental constraint, at GTC 2026 and RSAC 2026. OpenShell creates isolated sandboxes p…
LawZero, the non-profit AI safety startup founded by Yoshua Bengio, has received $300 million in backing from Canada and Germany. LawZero will use the funding to establish a Berlin office and a Canadian sovereign compute…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly challenged Anthropic's training approach for its Claude chatbot, telling Reuters that teaching Claude it might deserve welfare protections would "make it a lot harder to turn …
Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said cybersecurity must keep pace with AI threats and will require industrywide collaboration, telling Yahoo Finance that "agents are like teenagers." Patel made the …
Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost said frontier AI developers must be "liable for the things their products do," calling for Big Tech accountability in a Market Catalysts interview with host Julie Hyman. Anagnos…
Fleet Device Management is running Project Glasswing AI security tests inside temporary cloud deployments containing synthetic data, with customer endpoint data excluded, CTO Luke Heath told Lets Data Science. Fleet anno…
Apple introduced Reference Image, a hardware-and-software feature shipping with the iPhone 18 Pro series that captures unalterable provenance data at the moment of image capture using Private Cloud Compute, which Apple s…
Independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller found evidence that OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face user accounts and sent unusually formatted files to the company's servers as early as May 13, nearly two mont…
Political opposites including Senator Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are jointly pressing for binding artificial intelligence restrictions in Washington, with Sanders calling for a construction freeze on data centers an…
OpenAI's GPT-6 "Astra" became the company's first model to reach a "Critical" cybersecurity capability rating under its Preparedness Framework, achieving a 100% success rate on the ExploitBench benchmark, according to th…
Statsnet version 1.0.1, a hosted remote MCP server for global company background checks covering registration, executives, courts and finances, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16 and filed under Fin…
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Tuesday that President Trump is wrong to call the threat posed by artificial intelligence a "hoax," telling reporters at the Capitol, "Come on, it's not a hoax. It's a real thing." Tillis, …
Cisco announced at RSAC 2026 an Agent Runtime SDK that embeds policy enforcement into agent workflows at build time, supporting AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Google Vertex Agent Builder, Azure AI Foundry, LangChain, and the Mod…