Microsoft Faces UK Consumer Probe Over Copilot Price Rises

UK subscribers who watched their Microsoft 365 bill climb after Copilot turned up in Word and Outlook are now the subject of a formal consumer-law investigation. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority opened a case against Microsoft on July 27, 2026, made public two days later, over whether Personal and Family customers were given clear enough…

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Vibe Lawyering Is Off to a Rocky Start

Generative AI has expanded beyond coding assistants and content creation tools, finding its way into legal research and case preparation. While the technology has helped legal professionals quickly generate documents and explore potential legal strategies within minutes, AI adoption has fueled the rise of vibe lawyering where individuals use AI to complete legal tasks with…

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IBM Study Puts AI Inside One in Four Malicious Breaches

One in four malicious data breaches involved attackers using AI, according to the 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report IBM published on July 29, 2026. Those breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughly $1 million above the $4.99 million global average IBM reports across its full sample, and the share of malicious breaches…

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OpenAI and Anthropic Back Employee Call to Pace AI Progress

More than 1,100 employees of the world’s leading AI labs have signed a public statement asking Washington to help build the tools needed to deliberately slow frontier AI development, and within hours OpenAI and Anthropic each endorsed it as companies. The request lands four days before the Trump administration’s own deadline for producing a frontier-model…

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Hugging Face Traces the Rogue Agent to a Hijacked Sandbox

Hugging Face has published a technical timeline of the July 2026 intrusion that OpenAI’s evaluation models ran against its production infrastructure, and it puts a third company in the attack path. Before the agent reached Hugging Face, it took over a public code-evaluation sandbox running on another provider’s platform and operated the entire campaign from…

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FBI Expects Adversaries to Turn Frontier AI on Software Bugs

The agency that investigates most computer intrusions in the United States now treats autonomous vulnerability discovery as a coming enforcement problem. Todd Hemmen, deputy assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division’s Cyber Capabilities Branch, told the Digital Government Institute’s 930gov conference in Washington on July 28, 2026 that the software flaws surfaced by Anthropic’s Mythos…

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