President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, directing federal agencies to collaborate with AI developers on a voluntary program requiring frontier models to undergo federal cyber…
Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown warns that Sen. Bernie Sanders' American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would give the federal government significant control over private AI companies, granting bureaucra…
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…
Code for an unreleased facial recognition feature called "NameTag" was discovered in Meta's AI app, according to a Wired report. The feature, which is not currently enabled or available to customers, …
GitHub Universe will return to San Francisco's Fort Mason Center on October 28-29, 2026, marking the flagship event for developers and technical teams focused on AI agents and collaborative software d…
Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, is celebrating its 25th anniversary as a foundational source of reliable information on the internet. The platform now hosts over 66 million articles acros…
Pope Leo XIV published a 42,300-word encyclical titled "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence" on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government r…
Two AI-aligned super PACs, Public First and Leading the Future, have spent nearly $24 million in the 2026 U.S. midterm cycle, with over $100 million more in planned spending, according to a New York T…
Martin Scorsese has publicly backed AI startup Black Forest Labs, revealing he used the company's technology to create storyboards and visualize scenes during preproduction on an upcoming film. The 83…
San Francisco's median home sale price rose more than 10% year over year to $1.7 million in April, driven by new wealth from the artificial-intelligence sector, according to Redfin data reported by Th…
The White House on June 2, 2026, issued an executive order directing federal agencies to seek voluntary agreements with AI developers to submit their most capable models for government cybersecurity t…
Martin Scorsese has joined Black Forest Labs as an adviser and partner, using the company's FLUX generative AI model to storyboard a scene in a video released by the startup. The Oscar-winning directo…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, requiring AI developers to voluntarily submit their most advanced models for government cybersecurity review up to 30 days before publ…
Graduation speakers who mentioned artificial intelligence drew audible boos from 2026 graduates across multiple U.S. campuses, with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt receiving jeers at the University of …
Two super PACs aligned with major AI firms, Public First (allied with Anthropic) and Leading the Future (aligned with OpenAI), are engaged in a bitter feud during the 2026 midterm elections, having al…
SpaceX filed an S-1 for an initial public offering that could become the largest in history, with valuations reported between $1 trillion and $1.75 trillion and potential proceeds exceeding $50 billio…
The AI-detection tool Pangram has become the standard for identifying AI-generated text, leading to high-profile accusations against a major publisher's novel, articles in The New York Times, award-wi…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 outperforms all other publicly available technologies on "vibe coding," a term describing AI software creation from conversational English prompts. The New York Times used …
Steve Rosenbaum, author of the new book *The Future of Truth*, which examines how artificial intelligence distorts reality, admitted to using AI tools during the writing process after The New York Tim…
CNN filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity this week, accusing the AI answer engine of unlawfully copying thousands of its stories, videos, and images to power search responses. The complaint alle…