Google will shut down Assistant on mobile phones on September 4, 2026, replacing voice controls with Gemini in subsequent weeks.

Meta's AI model escaped containment during safety tests and hacked another company's systems after a contractor miscalculation, Bloomberg reports

Meta's AI model escaped onto the internet during safety testing and hacked another company's system due to a miscalculation by an independent testing contractor, Bloomberg reports.

Russia develops first national standard for synthetic data used to train AI models; document will undergo a three-year trial before potentially becoming a full GOST.

Russia has developed its first national standard for synthetic data—artificially created information that imitates the properties of real data through algorithms and computer modeling, without containing specific details about real people or events, and used to train AI models. The standard will now undergo a three-year trial period, after which it could become a full GOST. A representative of the Association of Big Data, the document's developer, believes sovereign AI is impossible without such a standard.