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UK to deploy facial age estimation on asylum seekers in 2027
Internal Home Office tests show the AI misjudged Sub-Saharan African women's ages by 4.6 years on average — and ministers are proceeding anyway.
DOJ moves to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over xAI's Memphis turbines
Justice Department says shutting down 57 unpermitted gas turbines powering Grok would threaten Pentagon operations and AI innovation.
DOJ calls xAI's 57 Memphis gas turbines a national security asset
Justice Department says shutting down xAI's unpermitted turbines would cripple AI that backs US military operations, including strikes in Iran.
Microsoft patches critical Copilot flaw that leaked 2FA codes from user emails
Varonis's SearchLeak exploit chain weaponized a crafted URL to make M365 Copilot exfiltrate emails, SharePoint docs, and OneDrive files.
DOJ backs xAI in NAACP suit, calling Grok 'vital' to military operations
Justice Department says shutting xAI's unpermitted gas turbines at Colossus 2 would threaten Iran strike operations and national security.
White House ties AI preemption to KOSA in last-ditch federal push
With midterms five months away and a five-week recess looming, the administration is binding AI rules to child-safety law.
76 cybersecurity experts protest US export ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable
Alex Stamos, Katie Moussouris, and Jon Callas signed an open letter calling the White House order 'dangerous' for defenders.
NewCore raises $66M to give AI agents enterprise identities
The Israeli-American startup launches with a $300M valuation, betting legacy identity platforms can't handle a workforce of humans and software agents.
Sequent launches to fix alignment before superintelligence arrives
A new nonprofit from UK AISI and Timaeus researchers wants $100–150M to chase theoretical alignment guarantees the frontier labs aren't pursuing.
Meta licensed Pentagon supplier Rank One's face recognition for smart glasses
A leaked software license shows Meta tested face recognition from a vendor that draws 80% of its revenue from government clients.
White House suspects China-linked group accessed Anthropic's Mythos
Export restrictions on Anthropic's most powerful model were partly driven by suspected unauthorized access, according to a Semafor report.
KPMG pulls AI report after hallucinations name UBS, NHS as users
An October 2025 KPMG report on agentic AI cited UBS, the NHS, Swiss rail, and TfL as customers. They say it isn't true.
Amazon security paper triggered White House ban on Anthropic's Fable
Andy Jassy briefed officials on a cyberattack-prompt vulnerability days before the export control order that pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged Anthropic model risks to Treasury before export ban
Jassy told Scott Bessent that Amazon researchers used Claude Fable 5 to extract cyberattack-relevant info, preceding the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown.
OpenAI subpoenaed by New York AG in multistate investigation
The probe spans advertising, model sycophancy, consumer data, and treatment of minors — and lands days after OpenAI filed confidentially to IPO.
Munich court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews
A German ruling says generative search outputs aren't third-party speech — the operator owns the words, and the disclaimer doesn't save it.
Anthropic shuts down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after Commerce Department order
A verbal jailbreak warning from the Commerce Department pulled two flagship Anthropic models offline days after launch.
Google sues Chinese network Outsider Enterprise over Gemini-built scam sites
The group allegedly used Gemini to spin up 9,000 fake sites and blast 2.5 million scam texts to Android users.
Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker
A WIRED review found dozens of nonconsensual explicit images on Grok.com days before SpaceX's IPO, despite xAI's January safeguard pledges.
Google DeepMind backs $10M fund to study multi-agent AI safety risks
Rohin Shah says agents deployed at scale create a new risk class, and academia needs to study it before deployment hits the economy.
Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints
Suit filed in California state court days before SpaceX's IPO targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Musk, over Grok safety pushback.
Google moves to dismiss musicians' suit over Lyria training on YouTube uploads
Google won't confirm it trained its Lyria 3 music model on YouTube uploads, but argues the platform's terms of service authorize it either way.
Cybersecurity researchers say Anthropic's Fable blocks even routine code reviews
Fable's keyword-triggered guardrails reject benign security work, falling back to Claude Opus 4.8 whenever 'cybersecurity' surfaces in a prompt.
Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5 with hard blocks on cyber, bio, and chemistry queries
The publicly available Mythos-class model routes sensitive prompts back to Opus 4.8 and costs 67-100% more than GPT-5.5.
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