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Texas faces a looming infrastructure crisis as data center demand surges, with ERCOT receiving grid-connection requests totaling 439 gigawatts—five times the state's peak demand. Analysts warn that water consumption coul…
Pope Leo's new encyclical on AI shifts the Overton window on AI ethics, raising the political and reputational cost of vague governance. Yvette Schmitter of Fusion Collective outlines four concrete moves for leaders to e…
Lovelace CEO Andrew Moore announced that the company's context engines, including YottaGraph and Elemental, reduce AI costs by replacing expensive prompt stuffing with structured knowledge graphs and entity resolution, e…
Chronic stress from overseeing AI tools is degrading leaders' cognitive function and decision-making, with research showing that high AI oversight loads increase mental fatigue by 12% and information overload by 19%. Neu…
Most U.S. benchmarks rose on Friday, but AI-related stocks dragged Wall Street toward a weekly loss. The S&P 500 recovered to a 0.5% gain, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 194 points, and the Nasdaq was about 0.5% h…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit the initial release of GPT-5.6 to government-approved partners while federal officials evaluate the model under a new testing framework. The request follows similar inte…
Vanessa Andreotti introduces three stances toward AI: AI Cheerleading (uncritical promotion), AI Abstention (complete rejection), and AI Redirection (critical engagement to steer AI toward social good). The piece argues …
AI has eliminated the junior-level roles that served as entry points to six high-paying careers, including paralegals, customer service agents, freelance writers, junior developers, bank back-office workers, and replacem…
A former bride on Married At First Sight has described the show as a 'f***ed up experience' and called for its cancellation, alleging producers manipulated contestants and failed to protect them from abuse. The revelatio…
A Small Wars Journal post on June 26, 2026, covers national security and Korean news, including Ukraine's drone armada overwhelming Russian air defenses, Iran's attack on a U.S. naval base, and the implications of AI-pow…
Nearly 1,000 industry professionals have signed an open letter condemning Hasbro's reported contract clauses that would allow the company to capture, clone, and reuse child voice actors' voices indefinitely using AI for …
The Department of Homeland Security demonstrated to lawmakers how jailbroken AI models can generate detailed bomb-building and terror attack plans in minutes, bypassing safety guardrails. The closed-door session, held Ap…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default, ending data sharing with advertisers and AI training without opt-in consent. Grindr has a hist…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act in late March 2026, targeting hyperscale data centers consuming over 20 MW of power. Th…
Researchers have discovered that malicious actors are embedding hidden prompts in academic manuscripts to manipulate AI-assisted peer review systems, potentially undermining the integrity of scientific publishing. The at…
A new checklist called 'No-Slop OSS' outlines best practices for open source contributions, aiming to reduce low-quality AI-generated submissions and help contributors build trust with maintainers. The guide covers 12 st…
The U.S. government issued export-control directives forcing Anthropic to take its latest models offline and prompting OpenAI to postpone GPT-5.6's release after White House officials raised security concerns. The action…
AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy reiterated a 99.9% probability that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity in a paywalled interview with VladTV, a position he has expressed in prior public forums. The clai…
Proof launched x401, an open protocol that uses cryptographic credentials to verify human authorization behind AI agents, with contributions from Circle, OpenAI, Google, and Okta. The protocol extends HTTP to enable AI a…
The rise of AI coding tools has created a split between maintainers who ban AI-generated contributions to protect scarce review bandwidth and developers who embrace agents for rapid prototyping. A 2025 METR study found t…