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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 24: Michael Kratsios participates in the Winning the AI Race: From Strategy to Execution panel during The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on March 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The Hill & Valley Forum)

White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable

While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught.
US President Donald Trump (R) and Open AI CEO Sam Altman (L) react during a working lunch meeting of G7 members, partner countries, and artificial intelligence business leaders as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. The Trump administration has been moving to regulate AI models for cybersecurity use. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Where’s the Trump administration line on AI regulation?

The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast.
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast during a reception at the Mongnangwan Reception House in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024. Putin enjoyed a red carpet welcome, a military ceremony and an embrace from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un during a state visit to Pyongyang where they both pledged to forge closer ties. (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea’s IT worker scheme funds Russia’s war effort

DTEX researchers found a series of transactions in a payment wallet showing North Korean IT worker salaries flowing into sanctioned entities that support the regime’s military programs.
13 July 2026, Belgium, Brüssel: Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, is giving an interview in the hallway of the European Council ahead of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU member states. They are set to discuss the situation in the Near and Middle East as well as in Ukraine this Monday in Brussels. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa (Photo by Michael Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Europe strikes out against Russia’s Turla over espionage, ‘destructive attacks’

The EU, its members and the U.K. took action against Russian government officials and others while attributing the winter cyberattacks against Poland’s energy grid to the FSB.
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A bomb disposal expert walks with his dog as the sun sets at the Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower before the opening of the Paris Peace Forum in Paris on October 29, 2025. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

French nonprofit starts global intelligence and research hub for AI cyber threats 

One of the project’s top goals is stitching together an international, quick response coalition of governments, businesses and civil experts for AI-related threats.
Stelios Kouloglou arrives for a meeting with the police commissioner at the police headquarters on Dec. 3, 2019 in Valletta, Malta. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware

Citizen Lab says the phone of a member of Europe’s PEGA Committee was infected twice with Pegasus, the NSO Group spyware that gave the panel its name.
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