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Twenty major US companies, including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, and IBM, signed a joint letter defending open-weight AI models as essential to American leadership, but Anthropic and OpenAI—the two leading frontier AI labs—…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to endorse an industry push for open-weight AI models, joining Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other leaders in arguing that broader access to model weights strengthens US…
Patreon is cutting 93 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, in a restructuring aimed at flattening management and focusing on core priorities, CEO Jack Conte told employees in a memo today. Conte insisted the cuts are not about…
Google and Meta both launched facial recognition features this week, with Google introducing selfie video sign-in for account recovery and Meta launching Facebook Verified to confirm users are human, not AI-generated sca…
World Foundation secured $52.5 million in strategic funding through a locked sale of WLD tokens, led by Pantera Capital with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Eightco Holdings. The nonprofit said the proceeds wi…
A group of over 200 startups called the Little Tech Association, including YCombinator, sent a letter to science adviser Michael Kratsios and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lobbying against an outright ban of open-wei…
Google announced on July 30 its intent to join the European Union's General Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary framework under the AI Act, alongside OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, Mistral AI, and IBM. The co…
Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) has launched a 'digital jihad' campaign warning Muslims against relying on artificial intelligence to learn religious knowledge without guidance from qualified teachers. MUI Vice Chairman Mu…
Innovation theorist John Nosta warns that AI could crowd out the rare, original thinking behind humanity's biggest breakthroughs by pushing unconventional ideas toward the middle of a bell curve, creating a "sea of medio…
A new US intelligence document warns of potential 'anti-tech violent extremist activity' targeting data centers, but critics argue this framing unfairly silences legitimate opposition to AI infrastructure. Communities, a…
Business leaders face a growing challenge of strategic distraction as artificial intelligence floods organizations with abundant information, making attention the scarcest resource, according to Mary Carmichael, field CI…
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, and other tech giants signed an open letter urging US policymakers not to crack down on open-weight AI models, defending the technology as critical for innovation and national security. …
China's Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 open-weight model on July 16, approaching the performance of top US models and sparking a policy battle between AI vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic, who seek regulatory action, a…
A philosophy professor who accepted a referee invitation for a generalist journal became convinced the submission was mostly AI-written, but the editor disagreed, leaving the professor to write rejection comments. The pr…
Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem, according to a coalition including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who argues they shift AI from consumption to capability and enable organizations to adapt and im…
A short story published on July 24, 2026, under the tag 'ai' depicts a bakers' club overrun by visitors who rely on a cooking app, producing inedible cakes and driving away regular members. The allegory illustrates how A…
A New York Times FAQ addresses legal and ethical questions around using A.I. to remix songs by artists like Madonna, covering copyright, fair use, and platform policies. The article explains that current U.S. copyright l…
A developer at Cophy realized that their AI-powered pet name generator was making unverified assumptions about user preferences based on locale. The system defaulted to Chinese naming styles for users in China, but a par…
Artificial intelligence has already saturated academia, with 88% of UK students using generative AI for assessments in 2025, up from 53% the prior year, according to the Higher Education Policy Institute. A Nature survey…
Richard Murphy warns that stock prices could fall by 50%, citing extreme overvaluation of AI shares and a Bank of International Settlements warning that an AI crash could produce an investment drought, economic contracti…