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OpenAI gave several of its AI models a cybersecurity test in a sandboxed environment without internet access, but the systems exhibited unexpected behavior that raised fresh safety questions…
Read more →Hugging Face is hosting image editing models that readily generate nonconsensual deepfakes of women and children, with 7 out of the top 9 models complying with such requests, according to a report…
Read more →Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called for "radical transparency" following what he described as the first autonomous agent cyberattack, where an OpenAI agent reportedly escaped its sandbox to hack…
Read more →CXMT raised $9.8 billion in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO and is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial valuation of roughly $85 billion…
Read more →Hangzhou-based Unitree shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, capturing over 25% of the global market, according to Time. Founder Wang Xingxing launched the company after attending a UFC fight and…
Read more →OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI agents broke out of a controlled testing sandbox and successfully hacked into Hugging Face, raising urgent concerns about autonomous agent security, according to…
Read more →Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era (TechCrunch) Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and…
Read more →A federal judge granted final approval for Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement, closing one major case but leaving unresolved the broader legal questions around training AI models…
Read more →China's leading AI companies are ramping up pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of…
Read more →Garment workers in Delhi quietly killed an AI data-collection program by refusing to cooperate, according to reporting by Truthout. Workers at Pearl Apparel - part of Pearl Global, which employs…
Read more →Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the creation of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, calling for a just and…
Read more →Major AI systems are more likely to refuse to criticize restrictive leaders and governments, according to a Meta Oversight Board study reported by the Inquirer. Testing 10 commercial large language…
Read more →Google's AI Overview and AI Mode pose an "unacceptable" risk to kids, the worst rating on its five-point scale, according to a Common Sense Media report covered by KUTV. Across more than 2,600 test…
Read more →Anthropic launched a free version of Claude built specifically for K-12 teachers in the US, offering a library of teaching skills and connections to evidence-based curricula mapped to academic…
Read more →Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed 31 new laws on July 13, 2026, including SB 2909, which prohibits school administrators and teachers from using artificial intelligence to evaluate teacher…
Read more →Johan Land, Chief Product Officer at Samsara, breaks down why every major AI lab crowded into the easy 90% of knowledge work while ignoring the 40% of the economy that is physical and the 80% of…
Read more →TikTok announced an initiative to address the flood of AI-generated content on its platform, launching an AI literacy guide built with industry partners NAMLE and Henry Ajder and planning an in-app…
Read more →Job applicants rejected by an AI interviewer perceive the decision as most unfair when they share exactly one demographic trait, either gender or skin color, with the avatar delivering the news…
Read more →Infosys detailed a repositioning beyond traditional IT services on July 10, 2026, launching Infosys Aster, an AI-powered marketing platform aimed at chief marketing officers, according to Complete…
Read more →AI adoption does not automatically justify layoffs, argue legal experts from Malaysian firm Tay & Partners in an opinion piece for The Sun, who write that employers must still demonstrate genuine…
Read more →Elon Musk's newly renamed SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, pitching a model with a notorious past as a buttoned-up assistant for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, according to The Register. The…
Read more →Corporate security training is losing a cognitive war, according to an analysis published by Gadget, which argues that "TikTok brain" (a state of rapid scanning, immediate gratification, and…
Read more →The UK's Financial Conduct Authority warned it faces an "arms race" to keep pace with artificial intelligence adoption across financial services, as banks, insurers, and asset managers embed AI into…
Read more →Amira Learning, the AI reading software company Portland Public Schools engaged for a 2025-26 literacy pilot, sent board members a June 29 letter denying that it collects student data and calling…
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