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A new paper warns that artificial superintelligence (ASI) could arrive as early as 2029-2033, posing five existential challenges: technical alignment, power concentration, international governance, social health, and eth…
Google delays the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model from June to July 2025, citing feedback from early testers and tuning for agentic tasks. The delay coincides with the departure of key researchers Noam Shazeer to O…
Tom MacWright argues that AI-generated resumes, portfolios, and outreach emails strip away the human connection and personal character that hiring managers and collaborators rely on. Drawing on 12 years of reviewing job …
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known distillation attack on its Claude AI models, using 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 28.8 million interactions between April 22 and June 5, 2…
A new survey from Milltown Partners reveals that only 8% of Americans who oppose data centers live near one, indicating nationwide AI backlash is driving opposition. In Q1 2026, public protests delayed or blocked 75 data…
Hong Kong can position itself as a regulatory bridge between US and Chinese AI ecosystems amid escalating decoupling, as US export controls on AI models backfire by accelerating Chinese innovation and creating a 'soverei…
A blogger criticizes the reflexive accusation of 'AI-generated' on platforms like Hacker News, arguing it harms genuine writers, especially non-native speakers who use AI tools for proofreading. The author contends such …
Google is rolling out a feature in Chrome 149 that lets its Gemini AI see and select content from users' browser screens, framing it as a convenience upgrade. The company also announced that developers can now access com…
UK government research found that medical AI products require continuous monitoring by expert watchdogs rather than one-off approval, according to two reports from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that artificial intelligence will accelerate cyberattacks within months, urging governments and businesses to prepare for threats that exceed current expectations. The joint sta…
AI surveillance systems in U.S. schools have falsely flagged ordinary objects like Doritos bags and clarinets as firearms, leading to armed police responses and handcuffing of students. The incidents highlight the rapid,…
Halyard, an open-source AI work ledger for developers, launched in alpha to track time, tokens, cost, and invoices across AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The tool captures session metadata as plain text on the user…
The Washington Post tested six leading AI chatbots and found that OpenAI's ChatGPT gave exclusively left-leaning answers 80% of the time, with DeepSeek at 70% and Anthropic's Claude never giving a right-leaning response.…
The White House helped Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai avoid testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety scheduled for June 23, 2026, according to sources. The hearing, titled…
Micah Lasher won the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district with 39.1% of the vote, defeating eight candidates. He issued a defiant message to OpenAI and Anthropic, vowing not to take cues from AI …
Meta paused its employee data-tracking program after an incident exposed sensitive information, including private conversations and performance reviews, to the entire company. The Model Capability Initiative, which colle…
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Congress to revamp merger law and sharpen antitrust enforcement around AI companies, arguing that Big Tech's use of licensing deals and talent acquisitions to avoid traditional merger r…
The AI market remains competitive enough that Big AI companies can be defeated through platform strategy, according to a new analysis. The piece argues that users and developers have leverage to shift power away from cor…
San Diego Unified School Board unanimously passed a resolution limiting screens in classrooms, banning video-streaming and gaming on district laptops by the start of the school year, and restricting unapproved AI softwar…
ZDNET outlines 12 vendor-neutral rules for successful enterprise agentic AI transformation, emphasizing that most deployment failures stem from architectural issues rather than AI capability. The report cites Salesforce …