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The New York Times moved to amend its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging Microsoft built a supercomputer to help OpenAI infringe NYT's copyrights. The amendment follows a Supreme Court ruling that s…
Rapper Tyler, the Creator called for a ban on Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, citing privacy and consent concerns after a Wired article documented nefarious uses of the wearable cameras. Tyler criticized users of the glasses…
Kristina Subbotina, founder and CEO of Lexsy, scaled her startup-focused AI legal service to over $1.3 million in revenue after building a social-media audience with legal horror story videos that garnered 5 million mont…
Conservative nonprofit PragerU has deployed AI-generated George Washington aboard 'Freedom Trucks' touring the US as part of Trump's Freedom 250 initiative, but the mobile museum has drawn criticism for factual inaccurac…
Ford Motor Company scrambled to rehire 350 experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to produce high-quality vehicles, Vice President Charles Poon admitted. The automaker mistakenly believed AI alone could replac…
Micah Lasher won a Manhattan congressional primary despite $27 million in spending by AI-backed super PACs, defeating Alex Bores who was supported by Anthropic's Public First Action and opposed by OpenAI-linked Leading t…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund to invest in crypto, AI, robotics, and energy, with half already deployed. The fund, which managed $1.28 billion in assets as of December 2025, counts fund-of-funds, f…
A developer built SuperCompress, an open-source CPU policy that cuts 65% of tokens before LLM inference, reducing costs and environmental impact. The tool scores each line of context for relevance, evicting low-scoring t…
AI was supposed to scale by removing humans, but companies deploying AI in real operations are discovering the opposite: the more responsibility given to AI, the closer teams must be to customers. Context from human expe…
US equity markets reversed morning gains in the final hour of trading, with the S&P 500 falling 0.1% and the Nasdaq dropping 0.4%, driven by semiconductor selloffs and growing concerns over AI investment costs. The Dow a…
A developer criticizes the concept of LLM-wiki, a pattern for building personal knowledge bases using large language models, arguing that it degrades information and undermines genuine learning. The critique contends tha…
Xprize founder Peter Diamandis argues that mass surveillance from satellites, autonomous vehicles, and connected devices will make humans behave better, citing studies on police body cameras. He envisions a "trillion sen…
California legislators are considering two bills, AB 1997 and SB 295, aimed at addressing the state's housing crisis. AB 1997 would shorten permitting timelines for low-income housing projects to 30 days, while SB 295 wo…
A24 defended its research partnership with Google DeepMind, saying it wants a seat at the table in shaping AI tools for filmmakers, after fans criticized the deal. The partnership gives A24 access to DeepMind's research …
Google DeepMind announced a research partnership with A24, reportedly investing about $75 million into the studio to develop AI-assisted filmmaking tools. A24 defended the collaboration, stating it preferred "a seat at t…
Altus Schools, a San Diego charter school network, spent $500,000 on two ChatGPT-powered humanoid robots named Ameca for a pilot program exploring AI in education, despite experts warning of safety risks and lack of evid…
A developer observed that AI tools are replacing the first type of engineering conversation—whether code works—but not the second: whether an approach makes sense given the system's history, constraints, and trajectory. …
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google accused Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Alibaba of using distillation to clone their chatbots via millions of fake interactions. The White House confirmed the campaigns a…
Shares of Lumentum and Coherent fell sharply on June 23-24, 2026, as the AI hardware trade showed signs of exhaustion amid valuation concerns and doubts about AI monetization. The selloff was triggered by investor Leopol…
AI-generated receipts now account for 70.8% of flagged expense fraud, up from 0% in March 2025, according to AppZen platform data cited by Accounting Today. A separate Emburse survey found 40% of U.S. workers admitted to…