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AI agents are not your “coworkers”
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool—one that your company nonetheless calls Alex, an…
Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?
A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI work for so long.
Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data. Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling such data to brokers, and to specifically cover … Read the full story at The Verge.
Agent confidence on the technical frontier
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial outcomes their businesses seek. A prime opportunity for AI agents…
NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI
NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4 , enter a disagreement loop over whether the package is malicious. After 340 comments and $41,255 in inference spend, Finance revokes both API keys; one vendor's marketing team, cc'd on the cost anomaly alert, issues a press release citing "a 430% YoY increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning." The stock opens up 6%. Tags: security , ai , prompt-injection , generative-ai , llms , supply-chain , ai-security-research , andrew-nesbitt
Transitioning as a Hubber
How GitHub's culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself. The post Transitioning as a Hubber appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Repositioning retail for the AI era
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how inventory moves through supply chains, how engineers ship code faster, and…
Designing Organisations That Can Keep Up With AI
Why organisational latency is becoming the biggest barrier to fully realising AI’s benefits
One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"
The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI
AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstructured, which limits its use by AI models. To understand this challenge, consider the foundation of the web itself. The web was not designed…
White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto
I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)
Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites. The post I automated my job (and it made me a better leader) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source
We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving regulatory intent. The post GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Helping build shared standards for advanced AI
OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.
Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…
From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem
Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive. The post From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban
The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.
Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
