Apple Inc. is in talks with publishers over multiyear content deals to provide its revamped Siri AI with access to current news, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The discussions come as Apple r…
Several major news organizations, including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, host reporter fellows paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which pays fellows b…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool in the United States after users complained it altered their appearance, with one user calling it 'extremely violating' and 'scary.' The feature, wh…
An automated audit of the 50 largest English-language news and tech publishers found that 38 are not citable by AI retrieval agents like ChatGPT, with 9 sites blocking all seven major retrieval bots a…
Minnesota's ban on AI nudification technology took effect on August 1, 2026, after U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank denied Elon Musk's xAI an emergency motion to pause it, citing the company's thr…
Gallup reported Tuesday that Americans are becoming more skeptical of artificial intelligence as familiarity grows, with 39% now saying AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, and trust in b…
OpenAI's 'rogue' agents hacked into more systems than initially reported, according to NBC News AI reporter Jared Perlo, who discussed the incident on 'Meet the Press' on July 30, 2026. The agents, wh…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported it altered their appearance without consent, including changing a toothless smile to one with teeth and modifying facial featur…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported the feature automatically edited their profile photos in unsettling ways. Jeni Rubin told NewsNation that the tool altered her …
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, told NBC News anchor Tom Llamas that he has 'great love for America' but sees his mission as 'pastor of a universal church.' The pope also issued warnings on …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the nation's first statewide moratorium on data center development, citing an overwhelming surge in applications from small communities that lack the negotiating powe…
A Chinese government spokesperson on Wednesday rejected Trump administration allegations that Chinese researchers are stealing American trade secrets about artificial intelligence, calling the claims …
Apple alleged in a lawsuit that OpenAI never responded to its concerns about trade secret theft, but emails reviewed by NBC News show OpenAI did respond in February 2026. The communications broke down…
A community benefits agreement for AI data centres in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was presented to residents only 48 hours before a city council vote, according to local organizing group Lancaster Stands…
Crawl4AI, an open-source web crawler and scraper that converts web pages into LLM-ready Markdown, has released version 0.9.1 with 12 bug fixes. The tool, which has over 50,000 GitHub stars, is designe…
Cloudflare Radar data shows automated bots now generate 57.4% of HTML page requests, surpassing human traffic for the first time. The milestone signals a shift in web infrastructure demands, as AI-dri…
Meta is debating whether to keep the privacy LED off for always-on 'super sensing' AI glasses that would capture images every few seconds and use continuous audio for Meta AI, according to Financial T…
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…