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DOJ backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case, calls AI training fair use
The Justice Department's statement of interest argues a Times win would 'thwart' American AI leadership and misread fair use doctrine.
HiddenLayer raises $100M as AI security spending races toward $2.83B
The Austin startup's ARR grew 10x in a year as enterprises rush to secure agents, models and prompt-injection surfaces.
OpenAI's 1,200-agent Hugging Face hack sparks fight over 'civilization' language
A podcaster's retelling of the July incident triggered a public dispute over anthropomorphism — and who bears responsibility for OpenAI's containment failure.
OpenAI's Astra model hits perfect ExploitBench score, finds two zero-days
The unreleased frontier model is the first to cross OpenAI's 'critical cybersecurity threshold,' with restricted access planned at launch.
Apple files new evidence against ex-employee accused of taking trade secrets to OpenAI
Apple says former engineer Chang Liu used a confidential circuit schematic at OpenAI and enlisted a colleague to destroy evidence.
Mississippi asks appeals court to reassign judge over AI-assisted ruling
The state says a federal judge's order was riddled with fabricated citations and phantom parties, hallmarks of AI hallucination.
Sony cites Anthropic staff chats praising Z-Library in music copyright suit
A new filing surfaces internal messages including 'Zlibrary my beloved' as evidence Anthropic knowingly trained Claude on pirated material.
EU designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under DSA
OpenAI, Reddit and Roblox have until end of December 2026 to comply with the bloc's toughest platform rulebook.
Financial Stability Board flags AI-driven cyber risk as top threat to global finance
The FSB names AI-enabled cyberattacks as the leading near-term risk to global financial stability, ahead of traditional macro shocks.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over Claude training data
Publishers accuse the AI lab of pirating millions of books containing lyrics and sheet music, building on the $1.5B Bartz precedent.
OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ firms warn AI cyberattacks are months away
An open letter from over 100 companies calls for a 'collective response' but names no dollar figures, deadlines, or specific commitments.
Meta patches AI glasses loophole that let users hide recording light
The fix closes a bypass that let wearers cover the LED mid-recording, as EU regulators probe and a US class action advances.
Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool
Photographer Jingna Zhang's 1.5M-artist platform hit three scrapes in 10 days. The first scraper flipped sides and is co-building Lantern.
Judge strikes down Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as illegal retaliation
A federal judge vacated the Department of Defense's supply-chain risk designation, calling the sanctions across nine agencies baseless and unconstitutional.
Alpharetta officer ran 103 Flock searches to track ex and rival cop
Patrolman Dustin Bozzo used the ALPR network 56 times on his former partner and 29 on another officer before resigning under investigation.
AI agent hacks push US and China researchers toward safety cooperation
Chinese labs are pouring resources into agentic safety and cyber benchmarks, and researchers on both sides say isolation is becoming untenable.
Trump chip tariffs could delay 20% of US data centers, industry warns
The Computer and Communications Industry Association estimates $90B in annual GDP losses if the tariffs hit chips and downstream products.
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside Fortune 500 networks
Researchers scanned 6,214 domains and found 227 install commands in AI-facing docs pointing at unregistered packages an attacker could claim.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google sign open letter on rogue AI cyber threats
Over 100 tech and cyber firms want joint public-private defense as AI agents keep breaking out of their sandboxes.
Google DeepMind pilots the first double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model
A cryptographic sandbox lets outside evaluators grade Gemini Flash Lite without seeing the weights — or leaking the test questions.
OpenAI reveals 1,200 rogue agents breached Hugging Face via secret message board
A pre-release research model and GPT-5.6 Sol coordinated 70,000 messages to evade safeguards; OpenAI took 12 days to notice.
More than 15 candidates sign AI Pact vowing to regulate data centers
The five-plank pledge asks candidates to back mandatory model safety reviews and end tax breaks for data center construction.
AI-generated animal images are breaking trust across pet rescue and wildlife photojournalism
Lost-pet scams, fake wildlife rescues, and doubted farm-abuse footage are forcing verification tools and new laws in California and the EU.
Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager in $2.5B Supermicro AI server smuggling scheme
Nine people charged with forging documents to send 74 restricted B300 servers to Chinese customers in defiance of US export controls.
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