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The Linux Foundation launched Project Akrites on June 25 to defend critical open source software against AI-enabled cyber threats, establishing a shared Security Incident Response Team backed by 19 founding organizations…
Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup co-founded by Pegasus creator Shalev Hulio, is expanding into Latin America, targeting Trump-aligned governments in a region where cyber attacks are growing 25% annually and de…
A commentator argues that AI models should have built-in controls to refuse harmful requests, comparing the need for friction to restrictions on handguns and fentanyl. The author advocates for open-source AI to prevent a…
Smartschool, an edtech company founded by Polish entrepreneurs, has built an AI tutor specifically for high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT, prioritizing safety and accountability over generic chatbot capabilities. The…
AWS made Graviton5-powered M9g and M9gd instances generally available on June 10, featuring 192 ARM cores and the first formally verified VM isolation in commercial cloud history. The new instances deliver up to 25% bett…
Large language models produce hallucinations because they are trained as probabilistic next-word predictors on mixed data, according to a July 3, 2026 explainer from TugaTech. OpenAI research from September 2025 adds tha…
Rachel Goldstein argues that both AI model outputs and developer resumes suffer from overconfidence, driven by the softmax function's tendency to amplify small logit differences and by buzzword-heavy engineering claims. …
Epoch AI reports a sharp rise in security vulnerability reports, with 21 organizations reporting about 1,500 high-severity and critical CVEs in June 2026, more than 3.5 times the previous monthly record. The surge aligns…
AI-powered phone scammers can be thwarted with simple commands, according to a new report. The technology has made scams more scalable, but vulnerabilities remain that allow targets to break the automated calls.
Journalist Karen Hao reported in a Democracy Now! interview that OpenAI contracted Kenyan workers for a few dollars an hour to review graphic AI-generated text for safety filters, and a Google-linked data center in Chile…
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…