President Donald Trump's covert departure from Turkey on July 8, 2026, using a decoy Air Force One and a catering truck transfer, has sparked a wave of AI-generated memes online. The Washington Post a…
The Washington Post reports that Big Tech's massive AI spending is straining finances, with Google spending $1.15 for every dollar of cash generated in the past three months, and five leading AI compa…
Google rolled back its new AI image generation tool in Google Earth just hours after its July 30 launch, following expert warnings about the risks of tampering with satellite imagery. The tool, powere…
Pierre, a developer, has created Z Frontpage, a fully automated daily newspaper that uses an AI model to browse the web, curate news, and generate a front page styled like The Washington Post or The N…
President Donald Trump's June 2026 remark that he 'love[d] the inflation' has drawn renewed attention after Federal Reserve staff cited AI-related investment as a contributing factor to inflationary p…
Computer science enrollment declined for the first time in nearly 20 years during the 2025-26 academic year, according to Stanford economist Jacob Light, as undergraduate enrollment in computer and in…
Beijing and Washington are independently considering controls on AI model access, each shaped by the other side's capabilities. Reuters reported that Chinese authorities, led by the Ministry of Commer…
Publishers including Axios, Forbes, Future, Time and The Washington Post are monetizing their prominence in AI answer engines by packaging AI visibility metrics into GEO products for advertisers, even…
Meta is facing a lawsuit from 26 current and former employees alleging the company used AI-assisted workplace monitoring tools, including keystroke tracking and digital activity data, to identify staf…
Companies including Anthropic are buying thousands of used books, scanning them to train AI models, and then destroying or recycling the physical copies, according to reports from Anadolu Agency and T…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on Tuesday banning construction of data centers using 50 megawatts or more, making New York the first state to impose such a ban. The mor…
Individuals now hold the power in publishing and search, with journalists leaving major outlets for Substack and outperforming their former employers, according to SEO expert Shelley Walsh. The shift,…
AI developers are buying large quantities of old books in Germany, particularly scientific and academic literature, to train language models, according to German booksellers. The practice has raised c…
The Federal Reserve on July 9 named venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, economist Charles I. Jones, and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma as co-leaders of a task force to assess the economic impact of artificial i…
Gamers are pushing back against AI-generated game content, pressuring studios to cancel releases and pledge limits on AI assets. The backlash highlights operational constraints for generative AI tools…
Anthropic secretly embedded a tracker in its Claude Code tool to monitor users in China, using 'prompt steganography' to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI…
Anthropic secretly added a tracker to Claude Code that monitored users in China, using prompt steganography to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI labs. The…
New York's One Fair Price Act, passed by the state legislature on June 4, 2025, targets 'surveillance pricing'—the use of personal data to set individualized subscription prices. A class action lawsui…
A recent Pew Research report found that 40% of Americans expect AI to negatively impact society, with 63% saying AI is advancing too quickly, fueling a tech-lash that includes resistance to data cente…
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…