The US government issued an export-control directive suspending foreign-national access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns over a reported jailbreaking metho…
Jeff Bezos' startup Prometheus has raised $12 billion in new funding, bringing its valuation to $41 billion, as the company works to develop an "artificial general engineer" aimed at accelerating inve…
Jeff Bezos announced his new AI startup, Prometheus, will focus on creating an "artificial general engineer" to design physical products, following a $12 billion funding round that values the company …
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 12, #1097, features four categories all beginning with the phrase "starting with." The yellow group focuses on incantations, the green on animal group na…
AI spending is projected to reach nearly $2.6 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase from the prior year, as enterprises face mounting cost pressures from heavy AI usage. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has cal…
Nasdaq changed its rules to allow SpaceX to enter the Nasdaq 100 index almost immediately after its IPO, bypassing the standard one-year waiting period typically required for new stocks. The move, req…
A federal judge in Mississippi sanctioned four lawyers—two from each side of a dispute over solar project fees—for submitting court filings that contained fake, AI-hallucinated legal citations. U.S. D…
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…