Governance, Regulation, Legislation, Geostrategies

MIT experts examine AI’s impact on work and democracy

(DigWatch) MIT researchers have examined how AI is reshaping employment, democratic processes and everyday social life during the institute’s AI and Society Forum. The forum brought together researchers from across MIT to discuss the benefits and risks of AI for work, civil discourse, election administration and other areas of public life. MIT economist David Autor challenged the view that AI will eliminate jobs. He argued that the impact of AI on labour will depend on whether the technology makes human expertise more valuable or turns it into a commodity. – https://news.mit.edu/2026/exploring-societal-impacts-of-ai-0623

Geneva at the centre of AI governance: Where technology, diplomacy, and humanity converge

(DigWatch) As AI reshapes economies, societies, and governance systems worldwide, Geneva is increasingly emerging as one of the most important global centres for discussions on the future of digital technologies. In a recent interview, Diplo Executive Director Jovan Kurbalija described Geneva as a place where multiple dimensions of AI governance intersect. From technical standards and international trade to human rights, humanitarian action, and diplomacy, the city hosts institutions and processes that shape how digital technologies are developed, governed, and used worldwide. – https://dig.watch/updates/jovan-kurbalija-interview-diplo-geneva

World Bank says AI could boost Poland’s GDP by up to 12% by 2035

(DigWatch) The World Bank Group says AI could increase Poland’s real GDP by between 1.3% and 12.1% by 2035, depending on the pace of business adoption, workforce adaptation and supportive public policies. In its report, ‘Navigating the Age of AI: Implications for Poland’s Economy‘, the World Bank Group said AI-driven productivity gains could begin emerging within three years. However, with only 8% of Polish firms currently using AI, the report identifies substantial scope for further adoption and productivity gains. – https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/22/ai-could-boost-poland-s-economy-by-up-to-12-by-2035-new-world-bank-group-report-finds

Spain advances law to protect minors in digital environments

(DigWatch) Spain’s Minister for Youth and Children, Sira Rego, has said she expects the country’s Law for the Protection of Minors in Digital Environments to be approved by Congress in autumn 2026. Rego said the bill responds to growing social concern over children’s safety online and the need to regulate digital spaces more effectively. The bill is currently moving through the Congress of Deputies. Rego said Spain would have a pioneering law to regulate digital environments and that major platforms must take greater responsibility for practices that are especially harmful to children and adolescents. – https://dig.watch/updates/spain-law-protect-minors-in-digital-environments

Security and Surveillance

The U.S. Is Losing the AI Credibility War—to Itself

(Matthew Ferren – Council on Foreign Relations) On June 11, Anthropic apologized after it emerged that its newest AI model, Fable 5, had been silently limiting responses to users suspected of attempting to replicate its technology. The model had also been criticized for refusing to respond to any cyber-related queries, redirecting users to less capable models instead. Two days later, President Donald Trump’s administration barred foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic’s two newest frontier models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. Unable to screen users by nationality, Anthropic announced it had disabled both models worldwide. The episode underscored how much both administration officials and frontier model developers now recognize the serious cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI. For Anthropic’s founders, AI safety and security have long been central to their mission. For the White House, Mythos’s emergence earlier this year produced a remarkable about-face, forcing the administration to shift from an aggressive deregulatory agenda to one that is more risk-conscious. Although this shared focus on AI and cybersecurity is a positive development, over-indexing on risk and failing to align on a clear way forward could cause the United States to miss out on a generational opportunity to improve national cyber defenses. – https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-u-s-is-losing-the-ai-credibility-war-to-itself

Why Frontier AI makes prioritization the most important part of your CTEM program

(Pierluigi Paganini – Security Affairs) More than 40,000 CVEs were reported in 2025, breaking yet another record. Today, security experts anticipate that frontier AI-powered systems could drive a 10x surge in disclosed vulnerabilities compressing the window between a flaw being found and an attacker exploiting it from months to minutes. The consequence is that there won’t just be new vulnerabilities; there will be more that can easily be exploited by attackers. The conventional approach to fixing vulnerabilities is based on the logic that vulnerabilities appear in a single timeframe, experts analyze them, prioritize them, and then patches are scheduled at 30-day intervals. Frontier AI cybersecurity changes all this. – https://securityaffairs.com/194161/ai/why-frontier-ai-makes-prioritization-the-most-important-part-of-your-ctem-program.html

FortiBleed: The Broker Who Turned 73,000 Firewalls Into a Product Catalog

(Pierluigi Paganini – Security Affairs) In mid-June 2026, researcher Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko found a live, exposed server containing working login credentials for tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls, a data leak code-named FortiBleed. The headline number, valid remote-access logins for 73,932 devices across 21,632 organizations in 194 countries, roughly half of every internet-facing FortiGate on the planet, is what made it news. The server was left open by accident, complete with the tools, logs, scripts, and credential catalog of a running operation. But a list of stolen passwords is the output of a crime, not the crime itself. Mysterium VPN traced the operation back to a single vendor trading under the handle “SantaAd” on an underground Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. – https://securityaffairs.com/194132/cyber-crime/fortibleed-the-broker-who-turned-73000-firewalls-into-a-product-catalog.html

Samsung KNOX Kernel UAF Exposes Millions of Galaxy Devices

(Pierluigi Paganini – Security Affairs) Experts found a nasty kernel flaw in Samsung’s KNOX stack, and the uncomfortable part is where it lived: inside the software designed to raise the bar for attackers. CVE-2026-20971 is a use-after-free in the interaction between PROCA and FIVE, two kernel-side subsystems that help Samsung validate process integrity. The bug sits in a race. FIVE tracks a process through a task_integrity object, and when a process changes state, such as by forking or calling execve(), the old integrity object gets dropped and a new one takes its place. That handoff should be clean, but Android’s preemptive kernel gives an attacker just enough breathing room to hit the gap. One thread can read a pointer, get suspended, and then come back to use memory that’s already been freed. – https://securityaffairs.com/194090/security/samsung-knox-kernel-uaf-exposes-millions-of-galaxy-devices.html

DifyTap: Four Bugs Put over 1 million AI Apps at Risk

(Pierluigi Paganini – Security Affairs) Zafran Labs researchers disclosed four vulnerabilities in Dify, the open-source AI platform used by major companies like Volvo and Maersk to run over a million applications across over 60 industries. Two vulnerabilities are of critical severity, two require no authentication at all, and three carry cross-tenant impact on Dify’s cloud service, meaning one customer’s private data was readable by another. The researchers collectively named the set of flaws DifyTap. The first and most severe flaw is CVE-2026-41947 (CVSS score of 9.1), which lives in Dify’s tracing system, the component that logs messages and model responses for monitoring and analytics. “An attacker can configure their own tracing for any application they can access as a client, which includes all publicly accessible applications.” reads the advisory. “This allows an attacker to create a persistent exfiltration channel for all messages and responses sent in the application”. Getting a Dify console account to pull this off requires nothing more than signing up for the platform. That’s not a high bar. – https://securityaffairs.com/194081/hacking/difytap-four-bugs-put-over-1-million-ai-apps-at-risk.html

Defense, Intelligence, Warfare

Frustrating Israel, fiber-optic killer drone technology has arrived in southern Lebanon

(Agnese Stracquadanio – Defense News) Fiber-optic First Person View (FPV) drones operated by the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah have changed the battlefield in southern Lebanon, inflicting losses and causing damage to Israeli forces occupying parts of the area. The technology, a hallmark of the fighting in Ukraine, arrived here shortly after Hezbollah launched an attack against Israel on March 2, following the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran that began days prior, reigniting a new large-scale war. The tethered drones rely on a spool of fiber-optic cable that maintains a direct link between the operator and the aircraft, making them immune to jamming and to other regular electronic warfare measures. In the context of southern Lebanon, their appearance represents a major shift in the nature of the conflict. Hezbollah released the first video footage of a fiber-optic drone attack on an Israeli tank in late March 2026. Asked about the technology, Hezbollah referred to Ali Jazini, a military expert close to the group, who said that the drones are estimated to cost between $300 and $400 each. The craft appear to be manufactured locally using 3D printing technology, relying on available electr – https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2026/06/23/frustrating-israel-fiber-optic-killer-drone-technology-has-arrived-in-southern-lebanon/

Leonardo, Baykar tout in-flight control of Kizilelma drone from a M-346 jet trainer

(Tom Kington – Defense News) An Italian M-346 jet trainer has controlled a Baykar Kizilelma drone in flight during a loyal wingman trial in Turkey. The Leonardo test jet flew alongside the Turkish drone at Baykar’s flight and test center in Çorlu, Leonardo said in a statement. The flight followed the signing of a drone cooperation deal between Italy’s Leonardo and Baykar last year, which envisaged the construction in Italy of Baykar drones with Leonardo systems on board. The flight test campaign in Turkey involved two Leonardo M-346 jets: a Leonardo owned M-346 Fighter Attack Variant, with an Italian Air Force trainer acting as chase aircraft – as well as the Kizilelma. Following an autonomous taxi and take-off, the Kizilelma autonomously linked to the M-346 using “an advanced radio frequency data exchange system” to synchronize data, Leonardo said – https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/06/23/leonardo-baykar-tout-in-flight-control-of-kizilelma-drone-from-a-m-346-jet-trainer/

Frontiers

Oxford and UCL to lead UK-funded labs on next-generation AI

(DigWatch) The UK government has announced two new AI research labs led by University College London and the University of Oxford, backed by up to £60 million in funding and access to large-scale computing power. The labs will work on next-generation AI systems that are cheaper to run, more reliable and easier for businesses, researchers and public services to use. Funding will be provided through UK Research and Innovation’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council over six years. The announcement expands the government’s original plan from one AI lab to two, increasing planned funding from £40 million to up to £60 million. The labs will also receive access to computing resources valued at tens of millions of pounds. – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-backs-new-ai-labs-to-make-technology-cheaper-more-reliable-and-easier-to-use

NVIDIA unveils Vera Rubin supercomputing platform for AI and science

(DigWatch) NVIDIA has introduced the Vera Rubin platform, a new supercomputing architecture designed to accelerate scientific research, AI development and large-scale data analysis. NVIDIA says a single rack of the system can deliver performance comparable to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The platform combines NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, Vera CPUs and high-speed networking technologies to support advanced simulations, AI training and data-intensive research workloads. With more than 7 exaflops of AI performance and 5 petaflops of native FP64 computing power, Vera Rubin is aimed at demanding workloads including climate modelling, computational fluid dynamics, and quantum chemistry. – https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-vera-rubin-delivers-world-class-supercomputers-for-science

EU launches ADACities for autonomous driving

(DigWatch) The European Commission has launched the Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities initiative to support the deployment of autonomous driving technologies in cities across the EU. The initiative, known as ADACities, was announced by Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen during the first international forum of the European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance in Brussels. The Commission said ADACities will serve as a mobility flagship under the Apply AI Strategy, allowing selected EU cities to become real-world deployment sites for autonomous mobility innovation. – https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/autonomous-drive-ambition-cities-adacities-initiative-bring-autonomous-driving-technology-cities

Meta launches new AI glasses with Muse Spark assistant

(DigWatch) Meta has launched a new generation of AI glasses in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, expanding its push to make wearable AI a mainstream consumer technology. The new Meta Glasses build on the company’s existing AI eyewear portfolio and will launch with 26 styles across different colours, lenses and frames. – https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-essilorluxottica-partner-launch-meta-glasses/

NVIDIA launches robotics safety platform for autonomous AI systems

(DigWatch) NVIDIA has unveiled Halos for Robotics, a new safety platform designed to support the deployment of autonomous robots and physical AI systems in industrial environments. The announcement reflects growing industry attention to safety, governance and certification as AI-powered machines increasingly operate alongside human workers in factories, warehouses and logistics facilities. NVIDIA describes Halos as a full-stack safety architecture that combines AI computing infrastructure, safety software, sensor integration and certification support. – https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-halos-for-robotics-the-industrys-first-full-stack-safety-system-for-physical-ai