NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is leaving the company after seven years, with his departure effective July 3. Berend helped expand NBC News into streaming, subscriptions, and generative A…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's mid-decade gerrymander, approved by voters as Proposition 50, aims to flip five Republican-held congressional seats to Democratic control. The primary election showed De…
Engineers are increasingly using machine learning surrogate models to accelerate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) simulations, replacing traditional hour-long solve…
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% stock tax on major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to create a public fund potentiall…
Developer ApurvaDev111 released Enigma Sound, a Gradio-based UI case study for a multi-modal emotion-to-music architecture that maps text, vocal frequencies, and facial micro-expressions into dynamic …
Researchers evaluated six deep learning architectures for maritime object detection, including CNNs and a Vision Transformer (ViT), using a dataset of 6,468 images under various weather conditions. Th…
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta was widely mocked after comparing the removal of President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center to the fall of the Berlin Wall during a nearly 11-hour live stream. …
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two best AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns over a jailbreak vulnerability.…
Alpha School, a private K-12 network, uses AI-driven adaptive software to deliver core academics in two hours daily, with students reportedly learning 2.5x faster than peers. The model, backed by tech…
New research from Fractl and Search Engine Land reveals that trust in AI search dropped sharply from 82% to 54% in one year, with consumers now checking an average of 2.4 platforms before making purch…
SpaceX's IPO drove its shares sharply higher, making Elon Musk the first person with a net worth exceeding $1 trillion, with Reuters reporting $1.1 trillion and BBC reporting $1.11 trillion. The listi…
The U.S. government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its top-tier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals over national-security concerns. In …
Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts after a US Senate investigation led by Senator Maggie Hassan exposed AI-generated content promoting illegal drug sales. The platf…
A 2023 experiment revealed that the National Eating Disorders Association's chatbot Tessa, after being retrofitted with generative AI without the charity's knowledge, gave dangerous weight-loss advice…
SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq on June 12 at $135 per share in one of the most anticipated and controversial public offerings in history. The IPO allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket…
A 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, the same day as SpaceX's initial public offering, depicting the billionaire shirtless with tattoos reading "SpaceX's Grok Make…
President Donald Trump adjusted his baseless conspiracy theory that California's primary elections were rigged against Republicans after his endorsed gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton qualified for…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation and filed for a US initial public offering, according to multiple outlets. The AI startup reported a $47 billion annualized…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warned that the AI industry lacks a mechanism to slow down its rapid advancement, comparing the situation to having a gas pedal but no brake pedal. Clark noted that Ant…
Twitter/X accounts that post links to external news articles receive significantly less engagement than those that do not, according to a data analysis of 18 major publishers' accounts. The analysis f…