Children First Canada says seven in 10 teens state they have been targeted in past year. Bullying in Canada’s schools is taking an increasing emotional toll, with new reports showing most young people have experienced harassment in the past year. A report from Children First Canada found 71 per cent of youth aged 12 to...Read More
April 17, 2026, 1:07 p.m. ET When people think of artificial intelligence, they often think of what it can do for them. The rise of AI in smart devices, websites, and even corporations has made it to the point where processes that had to be done manually are now capable of running autonomously. For many,...Read More
The U.S. government is moving to place one of the most powerful new cybersecurity tools yet developed into the hands of federal agencies, even as officials acknowledge that the same technology could introduce a new class of risk to already fragile digital systems. The new tool is Mythos, a frontier model developed by Anthropic, which...Read More
Prime Minister calls senior leaders from some of the biggest social media companies into Downing Street Follows government taking powers to act quickly once its consultation concludes, including on measures to protect kids from social media harms PM puts children’s safety first and tells companies this is the time to meet the moment, address parents’...Read More
The U.S. government is active on the blockchain again, moving approximately $606,000 worth of bitcoin BTC$76,270.33 to Coinbase Prime. These are not just any coins. On-chain data suggests the transferred 8 BTC are linked to Ilya Lichtenstein, the man behind the decade-old hack of the OG exchange Bitfinex, according to data tracked by Arkham. Transfers...Read More
The move by the Australian Labor government has been met with uncritical and almost unanimous praise. This is perhaps unsurprising – after all, who wants to put his head above the parapet to look as if they’re defending, say, cyber-bullying or the online grooming of children, which the bill’s backers claim they are trying to...Read More
Cyera, an AI-native data and security platform focused on protecting enterprise data and artificial intelligence systems, has raised $400m. The company has secured $400m in a Series F funding round led by funds managed by Blackstone, with participation from existing investors Accel, Coatue, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, Sapphire, Sequoia Capital and Spark....Read More
A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain breach through LiteLLM. Both are traced to the same structural gap. Monitoring without enforcement, enforcement without isolation. A VentureBeat three-wave survey of 108...Read More
Anthropic has kept its Claude Mythos cybersecurity model on a short leash, pointing to capabilities it says no rival can match. But two new studies suggest that even small, openly available models can reproduce most of the vulnerability analyses Anthropic has put on display. Through Project Glasswing, Anthropic has limited access to Claude Mythos Preview...Read More
Updated on February 4, 2026 to reflect OpenClaw’s updated name. Interested in Moltbook? See our take on it here. OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, is defined by its creators as “the AI that actually does things.” Due to its expanded agentic capabilities and built-in autonomy, it has collected over 85,000 Github stars and...Read More
