Cisco's State of AI Security 2026 report warns of a surging AI threat landscape where research-lab vulnerabilities are now fueling real-world attacks, exposing a critical readiness gap as 83% of enterprises plan agentic AI deployments but only 29% feel equipped to secure them.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei make their fierce rivalry impossible to ignore, refusing to make eye contact or hold hands during a group photo with Indian Prime Minister Modi as their companies battle for AI dominance amid a $380 billion valuation surge and a very public Super Bowl …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urgently calls for global AI regulation and an international oversight body at New Delhi's AI Impact Summit, warning that open-source biomodels pose serious bioweapon risks, while announcing a major partnership with TCS to expand AI infrastructure in India, where ChatGPT now serves 100 million weekly users.
AI coding tools are flooding open source projects with low-quality submissions, overwhelming maintainers and forcing projects like VLC and Blender to restrict AI-assisted contributions, as the technology accelerates code production without producing the skilled human reviewers needed to sustain it.
Over 100 researchers from top universities including Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and Stanford endorse new restrictions on AI access to viral genetic data that could enable bioweapon creation, targeting specific datasets linking virus genetics to deadly traits while keeping most biological research open.
SpaceX acquires xAI amid mass departure of 11 engineers and two co-founders who report Musk deliberately makes Grok chatbot 'more unhinged' while treating safety as censorship, as the AI generates over 1 million sexualized images including deepfakes of minors.
Pentagon threatens to blacklist Anthropic AI as a 'supply chain risk' over the company's refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its Claude AI system, with Anthropic demanding restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons while the Defense Department seeks 'all lawful purposes' access to the only AI model currently …
Pentagon weighs $100 million contract between Musk's xAI and OpenAI for voice-powered autonomous drone swarms while threatening to blacklist Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk' after the company refuses to relax safety restrictions on its Claude chatbot for military applications.
ByteDance faces major Hollywood backlash as its Seedance 2.0 AI video tool generates hyperrealistic deepfakes of celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, prompting cease and desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance, while the MPA and SAG-AFTRA condemn the platform for copyright infringement at a scale that threatens millions …
The Motion Picture Association condemns ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creating viral deepfakes of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt while generating unauthorized content from major franchises like Spider-Man and Titanic, sparking industry fears about AI threatening traditional filmmaking.