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The Library of Congress has joined AI4LAM, an international organization exploring AI use in cultural heritage, as a founding member. The group, now with over 40 institutional members, aims to ensure responsible AI adopt…
Apple hardcoded a restriction into Siri AI's system prompt in iOS 27 beta 2, causing it to refuse to summarize, read, or extract information from URLs. The move aims to prevent Siri AI from repackaging web content withou…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Stanford graduates to stop obsessing over their first jobs, sharing a lesson he learned on a road trip to Las Vegas where skipping a class taught him that few moments are make or break. He j…
A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Gabe Evans and Rep. Kathy Castor would require utilities to treat AI data centers as a separate customer class, forcing tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to pay for th…
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn admitted in April 2026 that the company had removed AI usage from employee performance evaluations, reversing a key part of its AI-first strategy after internal objections. The metric had shifte…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by co-founder Tom Brown in White House meetings after officials found Amodei difficult to engage with, according to a report. The change comes as the Trump administration imposed e…
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's idea of building AI data centers in space, arguing that the high cost and long timeline make it impractical. Son emphasized that Softbank is focused on expanding Earth-bas…
An Azure AI agent passed all functional, retrieval, and safety tests but still requires human approval before executing actions. The developer refused full autonomy because enterprise accountability must be designed befo…
California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would require California State University courses to be taught by human faculty, not artificial intelligence. Senate Bill 928, authored by Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, aims to pr…
Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl on February 19, 2026, requiring AI crawlers to pay publishers per request via HTTP 402 status codes. The system, verified at Cloudflare's edge, shifts web data access …
Nearly 1,000 actors, agents, and parents signed an open letter organized by the Agents for Young Performers Association condemning a major studio's contract clauses that require child actors to allow their voices to be u…
Bank of America's European equity strategist Sebastian Raedler recommends investing in overlooked defensive sectors like consumer staples and pharmaceuticals to hedge against a potential AI stock downturn, citing deterio…
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “completely fumbled” its lead in artificial intelligence, arguing the company failed to capitalize on its data and distribution advantages to become the dominant open-weight AI lab…
Former New York City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi was arrested Wednesday and charged with forgery for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create fake endorsements and fabricated news articles on social media…
Despite predictions that AI tutors would transform education, a Chalkbeat report and a Stanford University study show that student engagement with tools like Khan Academy's Khanmigo remains minimal, with average weekly u…
Art historian Harry Liivrand said this year's Venice Biennale marks the first major breakthrough of artificial intelligence on a large international art stage, with several national pavilions featuring AI-generated works…
Fireworks during Fourth of July celebrations cause fear and panic in pets and wildlife, leading to lost animals and injuries. Marin Humane advises keeping pets indoors, ensuring they have identification, and avoiding fir…
Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capabilities, filling a …
OpenAI researcher Houda Nait El Barj reflects on how artificial intelligence, which makes intelligence abundant and scalable, will shift human needs toward presence and shared experience rather than information or emotio…
Global AI revenue outside China reached $25 billion in Q1 2026, surpassing the estimated $21 billion in annualized depreciation costs for chips and data centers for the second straight quarter, according to Bloomberg and…