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The United Nations launched the AI for Good Global Commission to bring together tech executives and heads of state to forge global AI rules, as national regulations become increasingly fragmented. The commission aims to …
ByteDance is investing $37.7 billion to build its largest data center outside China in Brazil's Ceará state, powered by wind energy and backed by a $2 billion renewable supply deal. The facility, located in the Pecém por…
UBS analysts report that approximately 60% of enterprise companies are throttling AI spending by implementing guardrails, as CFOs and CTOs grow concerned about rising token costs and meager ROI. The analysts note that AI…
The Godot Engine developers are updating their contribution policy to restrict AI-generated code, banning autonomous AI agents and large-scale AI code generation while allowing limited AI assistance like code completion.…
AI providers face mounting operational pressures as infrastructure costs soar, with OpenAI expecting $600 billion in compute spending by 2030 and major tech firms potentially spending $630 billion on AI infrastructure in…
KPMG Australia confirmed in February 2026 that 28 staff used AI tools to cheat on internal training exams since July 2025, including a partner-level auditor fined A$10,000. The partner uploaded a training manual into an …
Autonomous AI engineer agents are industrializing inefficient infrastructure patterns at scale because their specifications lack sustainability constraints, leading to over-provisioned clusters and oversized container co…
The U.S. government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, reversing a sudden ban that disrupted Japanese developers and businesses. The reversal highlights regulatory uncertainty i…
A woman writes to advice columnist Harriette Cole about her boyfriend of six months who occasionally explodes at her when she asks for small favors like opening a jar or getting water, despite being kind most of the time…
A developer reflects on the allure and danger of the Fable AI model, which can generate software from a single prompt. They compare it to a siren's song, warning that its seductive power may lead to human irrelevance. Th…
Meta has imposed rate limits on the Conversation Focus feature of its smart glasses, allowing only three hours of free use per month. Users who need more time must subscribe to the $20-a-month Meta One Premium plan, whic…
Palantir argues that AI sovereignty is critical for institutional success, warning that ceding control over data and AI models transfers future decision-making power to others. The company emphasizes that retaining owner…
A new research framework called CLExEval reveals that large language models like GPT-4o-mini and HuatuoGPT-o1 exhibit significant flaws in clinical reasoning, including verbosity bias, hidden knowledge paradox, and a mis…
Researchers introduced Dual-Embedding Watermarking (DEW), a technique that embeds watermarks in large language models using contextual and token-level embeddings to resist paraphrasing and translation attacks. DEW enhanc…
New research reveals that EU copyright law, which protects creative essence beyond verbatim copying, outpaces current AI safeguards. The PSALM framework evaluates LLM outputs for stylistic and narrative similarities, exp…
A U.S. Supreme Court victory for Donald Trump has emboldened European privacy regulators and activists to challenge the Data Privacy Framework, a transatlantic deal enabling €1.7 trillion in annual data flows. The move t…
Researchers have proposed a new evaluation protocol for speech-to-speech AI that focuses on conversational prosody and rhythm, using over 4000 hours of dyadic English conversations to create matched reference regimes. Th…
SAS Institute, the analytics pioneer founded 50 years ago, is cautiously adopting AI by focusing on business value rather than hype, with CEO Jim Goodnight expressing skepticism about costly AI applications. The privatel…
Leaders are asking the wrong question about AI by seeking forecasts, when the technology's trajectory is unknowable. Resilience, which aims to restore a prior state, is a losing strategy; instead, organizations must adop…
Asia's factories expanded for a seventh straight month in June, driven by surging demand for AI hardware such as chips and servers, according to PMI data. The growth offset headwinds from the Iran war, which raised energ…