McDonald's is testing an AI voice-ordering system called ArchIQ at five U.S. drive-thru locations as part of its new McDonald's NEXT strategy, which CEO Chris Kempczinski unveiled this week to replace…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced he will introduce the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a one-time 50 percent tax on major AI companies paid in stock to create a federal sovereig…
OpenAI on February 13, 2026 launched Lockdown Mode, an optional advanced security setting for ChatGPT that deterministically disables tools attackers could use to exfiltrate data through prompt inject…
The University of Cambridge and its spin-out DIOSynVax (DVX) Ltd have completed the first-in-human Phase 1 trial of pEVAC-PS, an AI-designed "universal" Sarbeco coronavirus vaccine. The open-label, do…
The security podcast "The Department of Know" released an episode covering an audit of the National Vulnerability Database, reports of data leakage from Meta's AI systems, and Microsoft's progress tow…
President Trump on June 5 signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum directing the U.S. national security enterprise to accelerate AI adoption, including rapid onboarding of advanced AI models…
T1 Energy has entered a definitive agreement to acquire KORE Power for approximately $32 million in equity, cash, and assumed debt, with the deal expected to close in Q2 2026. The acquisition centers …
Anthropic has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, moving ahead of rival OpenAI in the race to go public, Reuters reports. The filing follows a $65 billion funding round that value…
Brighton Musonza, in a guest opinion published by The Zimbabwe Mail, argued that Zimbabwe's packaging and manufacturing industries can no longer restore competitiveness through cost cutting alone afte…
A post on ERP Software Blog argued that many mid-sized companies still process invoices and payments manually, making data readiness rather than model capability the main barrier to adopting AI in fin…
The June 5, 2026 episode of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, "Generous To A Default," covered Meta's global rollout of new content settings for teen accounts, a Krebs on Security report detailing attacker…
A retrospective cohort study used machine learning to predict end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The model aims to identify high-risk patients …
Forrester Research forecasts that 49 percent of current customer service jobs will disappear by 2030, according to a May 20, 2026 report by analysts Kate Leggett and Laura Ramos. The report argues AI …
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Canada's AI for All strategy on June 4, directing more than $200 million CAD to the country's three national AI institutes and the Canadian AI Safety Institute. The…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reported that automated traffic now accounts for 57.5 percent of HTTP requests on the company's network, surpassing human traffic for the first time in internet history. …
Colliers projects U.S. hospitality sector growth in 2026 will be modest, with lodging demand in the top 50 markets forecast to rise 1.3% and average daily rate growth of 1.35%, while occupancy remains…
A retrospective comparative study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research evaluated three large language models—GPT-5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek R1—on their ability to interpret complete bloo…
S&P Dow Jones Indices declined to fast-track SpaceX into the S&P 500 and rejected a broader rule change that would have eased entry for newly public megacaps, including unprofitable AI firms such as O…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and White House officials have held ongoing discussions for over a year about a potential U.S. government equity stake in the company, with Altman first pitching the idea to Pres…
India's electronics and IT secretary S Krishnan said the country needs greater "strategic autonomy" and control over hardware underpinning AI and biometric systems, citing supply-chain and industrial-…