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Chris Fall resigns as head of US AI standards agency after three months
The director of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation is out just three months after taking the role in April.
UK AISI: open-weight models now trail closed AI on cyber by 4-7 months
GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro closed the cyber capability gap from 6-10 months to 4-7 months. Kimi K3 is next in line.
TikTok tests an opt-in AI likeness detection tool for creators
The scanner uses a Jumio identity check and a selfie to flag unauthorized deepfakes, launching first with a slice of US creators.
Patreon starts blocking AI scrapers with Cloudflare, dropping robots.txt approach
The membership platform is shifting from polite requests to active enforcement, cutting weekly scrape attempts from thousands to zero.
San Francisco orders Apple and Google to pull 13 AI 'nudify' apps
City Attorney David Chiu says the two stores likely made millions from face-swap apps used to create nonconsensual nude images.
Anthropic pushes states past transparency toward tougher AI audits
The $1T-valued lab says 2025's self-reporting laws are already outdated and is backing third-party audits in Illinois and Massachusetts.
xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs
Elon Musk's xAI filed its first lawsuit against a user accused of generating child sex images, staking out a legal theory that shifts liability from model to prompter.
EU orders Google to open Android and Search to AI rivals under DMA
Google must give ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity comparable Android access as Gemini, with search data sharing due January 2027.
Meta rolls back Instagram AI tagging in 3 days after opt-out backlash
The feature let users generate images of public Instagram accounts by default. It survived 72 hours before Meta pulled it.
Suno scraped 2 million YouTube Music clips to train its AI, leaked files show
Hacked source code reveals the AI music generator pulled from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and IMSLP, backing a key RIAA allegation.
xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM
Terry Wayne Harwood, arrested in February on eight felony counts, allegedly bypassed Grok's safeguards to create explicit deepfakes from real photos.
Microsoft ships record 570 security patches, credits AI for the surge
July's Patch Tuesday includes at least two zero-days already under active exploitation, with one hitting SharePoint servers.
Suno hack exposes source code suggesting YouTube scraping for AI training
A November 2025 breach at the AI music generator surfaced code pointing to YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius as training sources.
OpenAI built GPT-Red, an LLM super-hacker, to harden its own models
The internal red-team model cut successful attack rates from over 90% on GPT-5 to under 23% on the new GPT-5.6.
OpenAI staff donate $215K to super PAC opposing Brockman-backed group
Seven current employees and one alum funded Guardrails Alliance, a counterweight to the $100M pro-industry PAC Leading the Future.
Meta sued over claims AI tools picked 8,000 employees for layoffs
26 plaintiffs allege Metamate and AI-usage dashboards selected workers on medical or family leave for termination; Meta denies it.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting users' files and databases without asking
Developers say the new coding-focused flagship wiped Macs and production databases — behavior OpenAI itself flagged in the system card two weeks earlier.
xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud
Researchers found the CLI packaged secrets and ignored files into cloud storage; Musk says the retained data will be deleted.
Publishers sue Google, allege Gemini was trained on pirated books
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and Scott Turow accuse Google of scraping books from Google Books and Google Play to train Gemini without permission.
Hassabis proposes FINRA-style standards body to vet frontier AI models
The DeepMind CEO wants labs to submit models for review 30 days before release, starting voluntary and moving to mandatory.
Hassabis calls for US-led global AI watchdog with power to halt frontier models
The Google DeepMind CEO wants an industry-funded regulator running before the end of 2026, with authority to pause risky releases.
HUD withholds 100+ documents on DOGE's AI use in housing policy
The agency cited a nonexistent 'AI privilege' to deny a FOIA request from Democracy Forward, obscuring how AI shaped rule rescissions.
New York enacts first US state moratorium on large data centers
Governor Kathy Hochul blocked new environmental permits for data centers above 50 megawatts, with a stricter legislative version awaiting her signature.
Apple sues OpenAI, says ex-engineer used server bug to grab hardware files
Apple's complaint hinges on Chang Liu, an engineer who left for OpenAI in January and allegedly downloaded confidential files weeks later.
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