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Trump administration weighs spending nearly half a billion to counter China’s global influence after DOGE cuts halted some initiatives

State Department documents show plans for over 50 projects spanning Latin America, Africa and Asia, reviving initiatives halted during last year’s DOGE-driven budget cuts.

By The Associated Press and Matthew LeeJuly 28, 2026

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Helen Toner: the Hugging Face hack was just a matter of time and exposes a huge blind spot in AI policy

By Helen TonerJuly 28, 2026

Instagram cracks down on growing ‘pervert glasses’ problem with Meta Ray-Bans

Instagram cracks down on growing ‘pervert glasses’ problem with Meta Ray-Bans

By Tatiana SatauaJuly 28, 2026

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A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results

By Beatrice NolanJuly 27, 2026

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Advanced AI models are showing signs of laziness. That’s a problem for companies betting big on autonomous agents.

By Beatrice NolanJuly 28, 2026

Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it

Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 27, 2026

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AI CEOs: Start your essays!

By Alexei OreskovicJuly 29, 2026

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‘It is okay not to be okay’: NFL legend Terrell Davis joins growing roster of athletes partnering with big pharma to raise health awareness

By Joshua HongJuly 29, 2026

Jamie Dimon says his stockbroker father taught him to invest with a ‘brutally hard’ childhood game

Jamie Dimon says his stockbroker father taught him to invest with a ‘brutally hard’ childhood game

By Sarah GlodekJuly 29, 2026

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Canadian intern at NATO’s military headquarters arrested on espionage charges

Canadian intern at NATO’s military headquarters arrested on espionage charges

By Sam McNeil and The Associated PressJuly 27, 2026

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A new FCC proposal could spell the end of the burner phone
By Catherina GioinoJuly 14, 2026

James Cameron tried to warn us: ‘Skynet Day’ is now shorthand for OpenAI’s agent going rogue and hacking into a startup

James Cameron tried to warn us: ‘Skynet Day’ is now shorthand for OpenAI’s agent going rogue and hacking into a startup

By Laurie Kellman, Lindsey Bahr and The Associated PressJuly 26, 2026

Intern arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying inside NATO military headquarters and ‘being a member of a criminal organization’

Intern arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying inside NATO military headquarters and ‘being a member of a criminal organization’

By Sam McNeil and The Associated PressJuly 25, 2026

Sam Altman speaking to reporters.

AI safety experts say OpenAI’s rogue models may mean the company has already blown past its own internal red lines

By Beatrice NolanJuly 25, 2026

EU strikes Google with $1 billion fine in major crackdown on antitrust regulations even as Trump threatens retaliation

By The Associated Press and Sam McNeilJuly 24, 2026

AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened

AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened

By Emily ForliniJuly 24, 2026

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Europe to social media platforms: make yourself safe for kids under 13, somehow
By Lorne Cook, Kelvin Chan and The Associated PressJuly 13, 2026

Anthropic debuts Claude Opus 5 with feature that lets users toggle between cost and capability

Anthropic debuts Claude Opus 5 with feature that lets users toggle between cost and capability

By Emily ForliniJuly 24, 2026

EU says TikTok failed to shield minors’ accounts from adults, exposing kids to predators

EU says TikTok failed to shield minors’ accounts from adults, exposing kids to predators

By Sam McNeil and The Associated PressJuly 24, 2026

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China adds 14 European firms to export control list in tit-for-tat over EU’s Russia sanctions

By The Associated PressJuly 24, 2026

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‘Call us whatever the hell you want’: Mark Zuckerberg just launched an AI optimism blitz using nostalgia to sell Meta’s AI future amid backlash

By Mia OsmonbekovJuly 23, 2026

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Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model

By Mia OsmonbekovJuly 23, 2026

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Exclusive: Google’s former ‘click fraud czar’ emerges from stealth with an on-device AI shield against AI-powered phishing, deepfakes, and other scams
By Jeremy KahnJuly 13, 2026

Musk says frontier AI models should face peer review from rival labs before release, with the government only stepping in as a last resort

Musk says frontier AI models should face peer review from rival labs before release, with the government only stepping in as a last resort

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 23, 2026

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott pumping his fist.

Wall Street is finally starting to buy ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott’s story as the company beats Q2 earnings forecasts

By Jeremy KahnJuly 23, 2026

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General James ‘Spider’ Marks: there’s a strategic risk hidden inside closed AI systems

By James MarksJuly 23, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sits next to U.S. President Donald Trump.

OpenAI’s rogue hacking incident was a warning shot. Will it be a wake-up call to finally create AI safety regulation?

By Jeremy Kahn and Emily ForliniJuly 22, 2026

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OpenAI’s models went rogue and hacked Hugging Face. It’s a wake-up call, experts say, but more concerning behavior may be next

By Beatrice NolanJuly 22, 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel meets Cambodian prime minister to crackdown on cybercrime and romance scams

FBI Director Kash Patel meets Cambodian prime minister to crackdown on cybercrime and romance scams

By Sopheng Cheang and The Associated PressJuly 22, 2026

U.N. reports Southeast Asia’s criminal networks are using tech to build a global illicit economy

U.N. reports Southeast Asia’s criminal networks are using tech to build a global illicit economy

By The Associated PressJuly 21, 2026

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Lawmakers say they’re protecting kids—but their age checks are quietly building an ID requirement for the entire internet

By Catherina GioinoJuly 21, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looking up.

OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation

By Jeremy Kahn and Emily ForliniJuly 21, 2026

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France adopts bill to ban kids under 15 from using social media

By The Associated PressJuly 21, 2026

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French President Macron backs effort to ban kids under 15 from social media before departing office next year

By The Associated Press and Samuel PetrequinJuly 20, 2026

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Hugging Face says it resorted to a Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack because U.S. model guardrails stymied its defense

By Emily ForliniJuly 20, 2026

France wants to ban social media for kids — but Brussels says the bill breaks EU law

By Samuel Petrequin and The Associated PressJuly 20, 2026

Cybercriminals are cashing in on the World Cup by selling stolen streaming accounts

Cybercriminals are cashing in on the World Cup by selling stolen streaming accounts

By Tatiana SatauaJuly 18, 2026

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s X account was hijacked in an AI slop hack pushing crypto tokenization

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s X account was hijacked in an AI slop hack pushing crypto tokenization

By Rachel VentrescaJuly 16, 2026

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‘I want to cry, I want to vomit’: Meet a 43-year-old who lost $90,000 to an online boyfriend she never met

By Juliet Linderman and The Associated PressJuly 16, 2026

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Meta Oversight Board study: AI chatbots may be the most perfect propaganda machine ever invented

By Didi Tang and The Associated PressJuly 16, 2026

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LAPD was one of Flock Safety’s biggest government customers. Now it’s renegotiating its partnership over ‘serious concerns around civil liberties’

By Sasha RogelbergJuly 15, 2026

The secrets of an unheralded AI success story

By Jeremy KahnJuly 14, 2026

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