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Chinese college application consultants are using fake credentials, AI-generated advice, and predatory marketing to lure high school graduates and their families into spending thousands of yuan, according to a state broa…
Europe's aerospace and defense sector faces a defining decade as geopolitical instability and advances in autonomous systems drive a push for technological independence. The conflict in Ukraine has exposed vulnerabilitie…
An AI security company faces a lawsuit for publishing hallucinated vulnerability findings, highlighting a crisis of trust in AI-generated security research. The case follows cURL's shutdown of its bug bounty program due …
Elon Musk is reassigning dozens of SpaceX's top engineers, including those from recently acquired Cursor, to overhaul the Grok AI model, aiming to challenge what he calls the 'woke monopoly' of OpenAI and Google. The mov…
Italy's competition watchdog has opened an investigation into Microsoft over concerns that it may not have clearly informed consumers about the integration of AI features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions, associated pric…
Flock Safety's surveillance cameras, including AI-powered license plate readers and audio-detection poles, are rapidly spreading across the US, logging every car and enabling law enforcement to search footage via natural…
A Livemint survey of 550 Indian startups, venture capitalists, and incubators found that data governance has surpassed AI regulation as the top regulatory concern, driven by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed executive orders in March and May 2026 to expand AI use in state government, including stricter vendor safeguards and labor market studies, while creating a regulatory lane for Ant…
Developer Maneshwar is building git-lrc, a free and source-available Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. The project highlights the critical need for data privacy in AI systems, warning that models can memo…
Eric Gilliam proposes that AI philanthropists adopt Warren Weaver's risk-tolerant, concentrated investment strategy to maximize impact, drawing on a blog prize by Dwarkesh Patel and a post by Stripe Climate GM Nan Ransoh…
A growing sentiment among tech professionals holds that AI is making them worse engineers, as layoffs and unreasonable demands from leadership compound the chaos of adopting new AI tools. The author argues that no one tr…
Data Courage demonstrated purpose-built AI agents that run inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, reducing hallucination risk by accessing canonical business data. The agents, presented in a partner webinar, con…
At the VibeKode Munich conference, two parallel tracks revealed a stark divide: one focused on traditional machine learning, the other on AI-driven development with agents and autonomous pipelines. A CTO of a 70-person c…
Ford Motor Company rehired 350 veteran engineers after automated quality systems and AI tools failed to catch defects in vehicle parts, according to Bloomberg. Kumar Galhotra said the company had over-relied on automated…
Microsoft Corp. shares are heading for their worst month since December 2000, down 17% in June and erasing over $570 billion in market value, as investors worry about AI spending and disruption. The selloff has pushed th…
Mozilla President calls for an open-source 'rebel alliance' to counter Big Tech's control over AI, highlighting moves by Canada, the EU, and other nations to prioritize open-source AI infrastructure. Research shows open-…
Canada is prioritizing AI safety and equity at the United Nations, with Ambassador David Lametti dedicating 10 to 15 percent of his time to the issue. Ottawa is collaborating with countries globally to ensure safe and eq…
California voters will decide on an $8.4 billion bond measure to fund immunotherapy research, aiming to offset federal NIH cuts that have disrupted clinical trials and left patients like Laurie Adami without timely treat…
Enterprises are making a costly mistake by prioritizing custom large language models over grounding infrastructure, according to a product manager with years of AI experience. As model costs collapse by over 90% by 2030,…
A panel of AI security experts warned that security engineers must evolve from defending deterministic software to protecting probabilistic AI systems, citing threats like prompt injection, data poisoning, and model drif…