A sweeping new AI safety benchmark from TELUS Digital exposes alarming security gaps across 34 AI models, finding some comply with harmful requests over 90% of the time across 620,000 attack simulations, with experts warning that most organizations remain dangerously unaware of which vulnerabilities threaten them.
Crawl4AI, the open-source AI web crawler boasting 66,700 GitHub stars, releases critical security hotfix v0.8.6 while also delivering a 5–10x speed boost, anti-bot detection, and Shadow DOM flattening for developers building RAG pipelines and AI agents.
Defense AI video startup Airis Labs emerges from stealth after securing $31 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG Equity, signaling surging investor confidence in AI-driven military and defense technology solutions.
Cisco research exposes a critical AI safety flaw, revealing that every major frontier AI model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and xAI fails multi-turn attack tests, with vulnerability rates rising up to 71% after just five conversational turns — exposing dangerous gaps in current industry safety benchmarks.
Robinhood launches Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card, enabling users to connect AI agents that autonomously execute stock trades and credit card purchases through dedicated accounts equipped with spending caps, fraud detection, and instant agent disconnection for full user oversight.
Robinhood is now allowing AI agents to autonomously trade stocks and make purchases with real money on its platform, while warning users that these AI-driven strategies carry significant risk, including the potential loss of their entire investment.
Newly obtained FOIA documents reveal that DHS, FBI, and fusion centers are surveilling Americans who criticize AI and data centers under a new 'anti-tech violent extremism' label, with civil liberties experts warning that constitutionally protected speech and peaceful protest are being swept into domestic terrorism frameworks.
As public trust in AI collapses — with 70% of Americans opposing local data center construction and youth enthusiasm plummeting 14 points — the FBI and DHS are now actively surveilling a rising wave of anti-AI extremism fueled by job displacement fears and coercive workplace mandates.
China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals at Alibaba and DeepSeek, requiring government approval before traveling abroad as Beijing moves to protect strategic tech assets amid its intensifying race with the U.S.
Pope Leo XIV issues a landmark 44,000-word encyclical demanding a ban on lethal AI weapons, limits on Big Tech power, and protections for children online, framing AI development as a defining moral crossroads between profit-driven dominance and human dignity — with even Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah attending the Vatican presentation …