The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is closing fast. In a coordinated statement, the agenci…
The Model Capability Initiative, which logs mouse movements and keystrokes to train Meta’s AI, is on hold after sensitive staff data was left accessible to the whole company. Meta has paused a programme that watches its own employees work. On Monday 22…
Two executive orders set a research-grade target, push the post-quantum cryptography deadline to 2031, and tie $2bn in grants to government equity stakes. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on quantum computing on 22 June 2026, the firs…
Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking users. The protocol, called Private Access Control T…
Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi-language support, the company’s first move to bring its generative AI assistant to a non-Western-language market. The company sent emails to select Indian customers inviting them to join a beta-testing progr…
Anthropic has updated its privacy policy to allow the company to require some Claude users to upload government-issued identification and submit selfie photos or videos for identity verification. The updated policy, which takes effect on July 8, introd…
Robot.com, the San Francisco startup formerly known as Kiwibot, is expanding from campus delivery robots into workplace humanoids. The company told Business Insider it will launch R-noid, a humanoid on wheels designed to package orders, load and unload…
A 76-year-old Texas woman died on Friday after a Tesla Model 3 driver told police he was using the car’s Autopilot feature when he lost control and crashed into her family’s home at high speed. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Michael …
Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that acquires and restructures digital businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.62 billion in its US initial public offering, Reuters reported on Monday. The company plans to market 58 million shares at…
Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24, the independent studio behind recent hits including Backrooms and Obsession, as part of a new AI research partnership between the studio and Google DeepMind. The deal, first reported by the Wall Street Jo…