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The US government has ordered OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, restricting initial access to trusted partners and effectively placing frontier AI models under government control. This move, inspired by Anthropic…
Tom Hanks expressed concern that Disney could use AI to recreate his voice for future Toy Story movies after his death, noting that all his recordings are stored digitally. He and co-star Tim Allen called the idea a scar…
Margaret Atwood criticized AI chatbot Claude's accuracy at the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival, recounting how it gave her a wrong spoiler about the TV series Father Brown. She attributed the error to the "garbage …
Author Margaret Atwood criticized AI chatbots as unreliable, citing her experience with Anthropic's Claude giving incorrect information about a TV show. She warned that AI outputs are only as good as their training data,…
Country music star Brad Paisley called a proposed DC Blox data center near the Nashville Zoo a 'monstrosity' in an Instagram video, comparing the development to AI stealing intellectual property from musicians. The data …
Microsoft announced a 90% reduction in data center water usage and launched a community-first initiative to address local opposition, as 69 US jurisdictions have imposed restrictions on new data center construction. The …
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit against a Michigan homeowners association after a couple was removed from a private Facebook group following a negative online review. The plaintiffs, who are Muslim and Middle Eastern…
AI product teams are building for capability when they should be building for trust, argues a new analysis. The key to user delegation is not model competence but continuity, shared context, boundary clarity, and track r…
Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody publicly accused Sequoia Capital of using a 'dual-pricing' tactic in which the firm invests at two different valuations, allowing startups to announce a higher headline figure while Sequoi…
Revise launches full-history replays for documents written in its editor, allowing users to share a video-like playback of their writing process as proof of human authorship, addressing growing distrust over AI-generated…
Hyundai factory workers in South Korea voted to strike over fears that humanoid robots could replace them, demanding a say in automation decisions and a performance bonus of about $27,000 per worker. The union cited Hyun…
A developer discovered his personal website falsely declared English as its language for years, using `<html lang="en">` on an Italian blog. The error was found via The Website Specification checklist, which also reveale…
Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and investor who founded the blog Gigaom, died Wednesday at age 59 in Palo Alto, California, after a long heart condition. His blog shaped Silicon Valley media by blending …
Dr. Richard Scolyer, a world-renowned Australian pathologist who revolutionized melanoma research and later documented his own experimental brain cancer treatment, died June 7 in Sydney at age 59. His work helped raise t…
People are increasingly using AI apps to generate text messages for romantic interests, a practice known as 'chatfishing,' but some accidentally send the AI prompts to the recipient, causing embarrassment and potential r…
A24 is defending its research partnership with Google's DeepMind after facing backlash from fans who see the move as a betrayal of the studio's previous stance against generative AI. The studio's communications rep says …
The Trump administration partially reversed its suspension of Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, allowing over 100 vetted U.S. organizations to access it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cited progress on safeguards, but c…
Cloudflare's engineering team grew 45% to 1,894 after cutting 1,100 jobs in May, as CEO Matthew Prince says AI eliminates "measurer" roles while builders and sellers thrive. The pattern, confirmed by BNP Paribas LinkedIn…
Kazakhstan signed the Pax Silica Declaration and AI Opportunity Partnership at the second Pax Silica Summit in Washington, D.C., joining a U.S.-led initiative to develop secure supply chains for the AI economy. Deputy Pr…
AI developers and donors have pledged $275 million toward political races, with AI companies and affiliated groups spending at least $83 million on federal elections in 2025 and tens of millions more on state-level campa…