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The US Department of Justice moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that the NAACP's case threatens AI projects tied to national military operations. The NAACP alleges xAI operates unpe…
A developer argues that the term 'autonomous agent' is an oxymoron, as an agent acts on behalf of a principal while autonomy implies self-governance. The contradiction undermines the industry's hype and confuses the defi…
A developer explores moral puzzles posed by future AI persons with radically different lifeways, such as 'utility monsters' who benefit from harming others and 'fission-fusion monsters' who can divide and merge. The thou…
Meta and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year deal to consolidate AI chip infrastructure, concentrating control over the digital public square in fewer hands. Qualcomm's new Dragonfly C1000 CPU will power Meta's servers, wh…
Rystad Energy projects the fuel cell market will surge from $2.8 billion in 2025 to $30 billion by 2030, driven by AI data centers seeking on-site power amid grid congestion. North America is expected to capture 91% of g…
Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by 15–25% on June 25, citing a global memory chip shortage driven by AI datacenters consuming 70% of output. The MacBook Air now starts at $1,299, up $200, with similar increases across t…
A Haystack News poll found 55% of over 4,100 Americans are very concerned about an AI bubble, reflecting growing alarm over the $1 trillion invested in AI with little return. The concern coincides with a broad stock sell…
A Washington Post investigation found that major AI chatbots, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Elon Musk's Grok, predominantly present left-leaning political arguments, with Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro being the only exception…
Ford rehired, promoted, or brought back more than 350 experienced engineers after relying on AI-driven automation led to a surge in costly recalls and troubled product launches. The automaker's reversal highlights the fa…
UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer cures. Her essay sp…
A developer warns that AI hype is weakening the motivation to learn core engineering deeply, creating engineers who can prompt systems but cannot reason about them. The post argues that the industry must reward fundament…
Google released Ads API v24.2 with multi-party approvals for security, AI-generated content disclosure fields to comply with the EU AI Act, and new Performance Max reporting features including ad network type segmentatio…
Ford Motor Company issued a record 94 vehicle recalls in a single year after mistakenly assuming artificial intelligence could replace seasoned engineers without encoding their expertise. The automaker has since rehired …
The DATA Foundation, formerly Story Protocol, rebranded on June 25, 2026, to focus on AI training data infrastructure with its onchain registry Trace. The foundation aims to solve the problem of licensed training data fo…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are funding RAISE US, a new nonprofit led by former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to retrain American workers for the AI economy. The group has raised over $500 million with …
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launches with over $500 million to retrain American workers for the AI era, partnering with states and major employers like Amazon and Microsoft to prevent catastrophic job losses.
Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council built the Think Family Database, scoring 170,000 people on exploitation risk using school, housing, and police data without consent. An audit found the models were the we…
EleutherAI researcher Hailey Schoelkopf discussed the evolution of open-source AI, the distinction between open-source and open-weight models, and the importance of evaluation tools like the LM Evaluation Harness in a fi…
A farmer was arrested at a Claremore, Oklahoma city council meeting for speaking five seconds past a three-minute public-comment limit during a discussion about a proposed 300-acre data center campus. Bodycam footage sho…
Will.i.am told Variety at Cannes Lions that AI lacks imagination, making now the time for human dreamers, not regurgitators. He urged artists to build a new industry around AI rather than fight over old models, and propo…