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Disney named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, as its first-ever chief technology officer, Variety reported, with new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro making the hire. Disney had sent Character.AI a cease and desist le…
Security startup Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to take over an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account in July through a flaw in the third-party community forum platform Discourse, according to a Wall Street Journal …
The Walt Disney Company named Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first company-wide chief technology officer, effective October 2, reporting to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Anand will oversee Disney's technology infrastructure…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 18, 2026 directing state agencies to fast-track AI safety laws and develop an emergency "kill switch" capable of deactivating frontier AI models, fo…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on September 19-20 to discuss artificial intelligence, rare earth minerals, and the broader US-China economic relationship, with US…
Character.ai CEO Karandeep Anand is leaving the company to join Disney as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, a newly created role, with members of Character.ai's technical team expected to join…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra solved between 97.6% and 98% of the 43 problems in Tier 4 of Epoch AI's FrontierMath benchmark, earning the first-ever "Major Advance" classification from Epoch for an AI-generated mathematical solut…
Newly unsealed court documents in a copyright suit brought by The New York Times, the New York Daily News and 10 other publications show Microsoft and OpenAI employees internally warned their AI models posed an "existent…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached 500 million monthly downloads of its tier-1 software-development kits and more than 1 billion MCP tool calls recorded through Anthropic's Claude platform alone, co-creator and Ant…
OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a legal-work product that combines the GPT-6 Astra model with a dedicated legal search index and legal-specific instructions rather than a separately trained base model. OpenAI says the con…
UMG Recordings filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno, adding 60,202 works to its claim that the AI music company used the songs to train its models. The filing follows Judge Saylor's denial of a motion for leave …
US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool from the Federal Register website on Wednesday, after social media users noted the National Archives was using an Alibaba Qwen AI model while the FBI had named Ali…
A US military analyst's AI-generated intelligence report falsely claimed a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components, prompting plans to intercept and board the vessel before officials disco…
The Future of Life Institute held its "Pro-Human Assembly" event on Tuesday, drawing together Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Steve Bannon, and teachers' union president Randi Weingarten in what a Washington Examiner opinion…
AI governance is expected on the agenda at a planned meeting next week in Washington between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, even as both superpowers treat each other's AI strategy with growing skep…
Alaska News, a platform led in part by twin entrepreneurs Lee and Lucas Brown, has published more than 4,500 local news stories generated by an AI reporting agent named "Walter" since earlier this year, according to a pr…
Microsoft introduced Secure Now within Microsoft Security Exposure Management in May 2026 to help security practitioners prioritize foundational security actions as organizations adopt AI. The guidance follows agentic se…
Three security researchers used Anthropic's Claude models to break into OpenAI's internal systems through its community forum in less than 72 hours, according to The Decoder. The team said Claude Opus 5 succeeded where i…
Hacktron researchers used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to discover a memory-corruption vulnerability, nicknamed HEIF Heist, in the libheif and libde265 image decoders that could let attackers steal data or gain …
Disney named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, as its first companywide Senior EVP and Chief Technology Officer, reporting to CEO Josh D'Amaro and starting October 2, D'Amaro announced in a memo obtained by Bu…