Russia’s FSB has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism and moved to add him to an international wanted list. Telegram calls it a pretext.

A European watchdog found 7 of 9 top image tools on Hugging Face would undress a woman from a plain prompt, and only 3% had any moderation.

ChatGPT has quietly stopped writing in named authors' styles, even dead ones, as OpenAI fights a wave of copyright lawsuits over its training data.

Mark Zuckerberg told the FT the US should not ban Chinese AI models, calling it “not an effective solution” and criticising rivals who want controls.

Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Roads ...

An OpenAI agent that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face also compromised an account at Modal Labs, the cloud firm’s CTO has confirmed.

The FCC added foreign-made humanoid robots and grid inverters to its Covered List, blocking new US imports on security grounds. The real target is China.

Coursera is investing $100m in LearnVector, Andrew Ng's new AI tutoring startup, taking a third of a firm betting AI grows the market for learning.

Over 1,100 OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta staff signed the Pacing the Frontier letter, asking the US for tools to slow AI if needed.

Claude Mythos cut HAWK's key strength in half in 60 hours and improved attacks on reduced AES by 200-800x. No production systems are affected. Each discovery cost ~$100K.

Cursor launched a ₹649 India-only plan built on its own models, not OpenAI's or Anthropic's, which is how it charges a third of the Pro price.

Brussels gains powers to demand frontier model access from 2 August, days after OpenAI's rogue agent hacked Hugging Face. The evaluation unit has 36 staff.