Implementation, guidance, enforcement and the fights over Europe's flagship AI law. Coverage from Continental Brief.
Researchers at Microsoft have identified a massive campaign of over a million fraudulent emails that leverages artificial intelligence to craft convincing business email compromise attacks.
Two recent California laws show that policymakers can address legitimate safety concerns without crushing decentralized software development, but only if they understand how open systems actually work.
The AI safety company has disrupted a cyber-espionage campaign by Midnight Blizzard that leveraged Claude to reverse-engineer military drone systems and automate attack workflows across government and defense organizations.
As AI agents proliferate across the internet, policymakers face a fundamental question: how to preserve human agency when autonomous software increasingly acts on our behalf. A new architectural layer is needed to ensure delegation remains visible, permissions meaningful, and accountability clear.
A study of 56 experts across 24 countries reveals that large language models are being deployed far more ambitiously in the Global South than in wealthy nations, creating both significant opportunities and serious risks that current testing practices fail to capture.
America's two largest school districts have reimposed limits on artificial intelligence in classrooms, signalling a shift in how education systems approach generative AI tools after years of permissive policies.
Lawmakers are debating whether the government should have authority to deactivate AI systems or close data centres in extreme national security scenarios, as autonomous AI capabilities grow more powerful.
Public anger over data centers and AI surveillance cameras has attracted both mainstream concern and extremist attention, raising the question of whether unaddressed grievances could escalate into violence.
eMudhra, one of India's few root certificate authorities recognized by major browsers, is abandoning its SSL/TLS certificate operations following a security failure that exposed eight intermediate certificates with dangerously weak cryptographic keys.
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for privacy violations stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a jury found the company broke state law 43 million times.
On 21 October, public websites in the Netherlands, Finland and elsewhere shut down temporarily after two severe vulnerabilities in PHP triggered urgent patching efforts across government agencies.