NIST Opens National Vulnerability Database Modernization to Public Comment

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the public how to rebuild the National Vulnerability Database for an era of artificial intelligence, opening a 62-day comment window on Aug [...]

French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers

French media have asked the country’s competition authority to rein in Google’s use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly s [...]

South Korea targets a 2030 Moon landing in a seven-part technology plan

South Korea has set out seven strategic technology programmes it intends to pursue after artificial intelligence, including an uncrewed Moon landing by 2030, President Lee Jae-myung announced on Wedne [...]

SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.6 for Long-Running Agents

SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence company formerly known as xAI, released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026, a new flagship model built for long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual [...]

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price

xAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing only Anthropic's Claude Opus 5. On agentic tasks, it completes complex workflows [...]

Taiwan says AI agents helped hack its government in four days

Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The island’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National [...]

Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ pitch lands as a Rorschach test

In a roughly 6,500-word essay published a couple of weeks ago, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out a vision of “personal superintelligence”, an artificial intelligence built for ev [...]

Hospitals Adopted AI Before They Understood What They Were Adopting

Hospitals did not adopt artificial intelligence in a single, deliberate moment. It arrived in pieces: an imaging algorithm, a documentation assistant, a staffing forecast, a patient-message generator, [...]

Israel Sets 100,000-Accelerator Target in National AI Plan

Israel has published its National AI Strategic Plan, a five-year program committing the government to a national computing base of at least 100,000 advanced AI accelerators, a domestically built quant [...]