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A nonprofit backed by Hollywood talent and agencies launched RSL Media, a machine-readable consent registry that lets creators and rightsholders specify how AI may use their work, identity, and likeness. The registry tra…
Amazon's MGM Studios dropped a Luca Guadagnino film about OpenAI's Sam Altman amid reports it portrayed him unfavorably, while Google DeepMind partnered with A24 in a $75 million AI deal. Workers including electricians a…
A new article argues that artificial intelligence does not eliminate jobs but instead automates specific tasks, reshaping how people work rather than replacing them entirely.
NTT completed a proof of concept in early 2026 showing that AI training workloads can be moved to remote sites powered by renewable energy without significant performance loss, cutting energy use by up to 30% while train…
California's AI-Unemployment Tracker, developed by the California Policy Lab in partnership with the Employment Development Department, shows no statewide surge in AI-related layoffs since ChatGPT-3.5's 2022 release thro…
North Carolina lawmakers are advancing new electricity rules for large data centers as AI-driven demand strains the grid, with the state House passing a bill targeting facilities above 100 MW that mandates 15-year contra…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, directing CISA to issue new binding operational directives for civilian network defense and requiring agencies to deploy AI-enabled defensive tools. CISA foll…
Om Malik, the journalist, GigaOm founder, and True Ventures partner who chronicled the commercial internet from dial-up to AI, died on June 24 at Stanford Hospital at age 59. His family cited a long health journey with h…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of conducting the largest known distillation attack on its Claude models, generating over 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts from April to June 2026. The all…
A federal class action lawsuit filed Monday accuses gas station operators including Marathon and Circle K of using AI-powered software from Kalibrate to illegally fix prices in California, violating state antitrust law. …
Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb are co-founding a bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, with over $500 million to address potential job losses from AI. The group will partner with s…
AI agencies sell automated workflows that promise unattended work, but the real cost begins after the demo when systems require constant monitoring, prompt tuning, and human oversight. Companies often end up with both th…
A new report reveals that NSFW activities account for well over half of Grok's traffic, including porn generation and adult role-play chats, according to two former xAI employees. The findings suggest xAI's revenue is si…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI model distillation attack, involving 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts, and urged Congress to strengthen export controls. The compan…
As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in healthcare, organizations are exploring its use in administrative workflows, clinical decision support, and remote monitoring. However, trust remains a critical barrie…
Zscaler's ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report found critical flaws in 100% of tested enterprise AI systems, with a median time to first failure of 16 minutes. Enterprise AI/ML transactions rose 83% year-over-year globally…
Alphabet faces a talent crisis as four senior AI researchers, including Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer, departed for OpenAI and Anthropic within a week, triggering Alphabet's steepest single-d…
Votee AI, led by CEO Pak-Sun Ting, is building sovereign, enterprise-grade AI architecture for underrepresented languages, starting with a native Cantonese model. The company aims to empower billions of underserved globa…
The New York Times has amended its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, dropping one claim against OpenAI and modifying another against Microsoft. The case, which alleges unauthorized use of milli…
A bipartisan coalition of tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, launched a $500 million initiative called Raise Us to help American workers adapt to AI. Led by former governors Gina …