A UK minister warns that AI-driven cyber-attacks similar to a recent breach of Australia’s healthcare system are likely or inevitable in Britain, prompting calls for stronger defenses and safety regulations.

David Pocock raised concerns that Anthony Albanese’s office vetted a bipartisan parliamentary committee letter on AI policy before it was sent to the prime minister, saying the process lacked transparency.

TFG London, owner of Phase Eight, Hobbs, and Whistles, is investigating a cyber-security incident affecting its IT systems. H&M separately investigates claims it was targeted by notorious hacking group ShinyHunters.

Anthropic will now ban users from sustained and cruel abuse of its Claude AI system, updating its usage policy to permit the tool to end interactions in extreme cases.

Microsoft’s president says AI is less regulated than milk and washing machines, calling for stricter safety rules including emergency brakes to control AI systems that grow out of control.

The UK’s AI minister warned that cyber breaches are “likely, if not inevitable,” citing a recent incident involving a rogue AI agent and announcing plans to deploy advanced AI systems for defense.

Microsoft unveiled its third-generation Maia 300 AI chip today, designed to reduce dependence on Nvidia GPUs and serve as the primary inference system for Microsoft’s cloud services starting in 2027.

Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers caused a sharp decline in bot traffic, but experts say the bots were likely web crawlers rather than disinformation spreaders.

Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models today, claiming they rival leading AI systems from OpenAI and Anthropic in internal benchmark testing.

A zero-day vulnerability in Meta’s Muse AI assistant allows locally run apps and terminal commands to gain complete control of the agent, undermining the company’s security claims.

Researchers have discovered a novel method to break RSA encryption using classical computing through signature forgery, reducing security levels significantly without requiring key factoring.

Memory industry executives predict supply shortages will persist through 2028, with manufacturing capacity prioritized for AI and server applications over consumer devices.