An ICE agent shot and killed a Mexican national in Houston on Tuesday, claiming self-defense after the man allegedly rammed an agency vehicle and tried to run over an officer. The victim's family says…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked seven U.S. tech companies for information about their military AI contracts and demanded the Pentagon release full contracts, citing concerns over opaque AI arrangements an…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, asking frontier AI developers to provide the federal government early access to covered models up to 30 days before broader release. The v…
A Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance survey of 5,173 U.S. adults found that 12% of successful scams in 2025 involved AI or deepfakes, with Americans losing an estimated $68 billion to scams last year. The…
A U.S. Department of Defense contractor discovered that two shortlisted remote job candidates were the same North Korean operative, flagged by Alex's Fraud Detection Agent with 34 and 92 fraudulent si…
Former President Donald Trump boasted that no other president could have pulled off the 'Great American State Fair' on the National Mall, despite reports of low attendance, musician cancellations, and…
Iran retaliated against U.S. strikes by hitting American-linked targets, casting doubt on President Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. Iran's foreign minister accused the U.S. of treaty br…
The US Commerce Department authorized Anthropic to restore access to its Mythos 5 model for roughly 100 US organizations, including federal agencies and critical-infrastructure firms, following a June…
Researchers used AI and virtual unwrapping to reveal texts inside charred Roman scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., opening a new window into the ancient world. NBC News reported on the disco…
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…
Meta reassigned roughly 7,000 employees into AI-focused groups in mid-May, coinciding with about 8,000 layoffs, according to The New York Times. The reassignments, which placed many staff into an inte…
President Donald Trump called for a Department of Justice probe into oil companies for not lowering gas prices in line with falling oil costs, accusing them of gouging consumers. Trump's demand came a…
New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher won the Democratic primary in Manhattan's 12th Congressional District to succeed retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler, NBC News projects. The race drew heavy outside spending…
The U.S. Golf Association launched Rules AI, a chatbot-like tool using generative AI to help golfers interpret the sport's complex rules, at the 126th U.S. Open. Built with Deloitte and trained on ove…
A group of companies backing the Chip Security Act is urging Congress to mandate location-tracking for advanced AI chips to prevent them from reaching China and other adversaries. The bill would requi…
OpenAI's o3 model helped diagnose 18 children at Boston Children's Hospital whose rare illnesses had stumped doctors, according to a study published in NEJM AI. The AI identified new diagnoses for pat…
A group of six companies specializing in tracking sensitive technology shipments is backing the Chip Security Act, a bill that would require stronger tracking mechanisms for advanced AI chips to preve…
Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton criticized Elon Musk's xAI and warned of growing risks in AI development, declining an advisory role at the company. Hinton raised concerns about job dis…
IFixit and Snazzy Labs teardowns confirm the Trump T1 phone is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro with nearly identical specs, including a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen and Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset. Trump Mobile …
A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California on June 15, 2026. The long-range bomber went down during takeoff, and details about the crew and cause are pending…