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The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to join a federal program that reviews advanced AI models before public release, citing national security concerns. Meta is the only major US AI developer not yet participating…
A proposed class action lawsuit filed in California accuses major gas station operators including BP, Walmart, and 7-Eleven of using AI-driven pricing software from Kalibrate Fuel Systems to artificially inflate fuel pri…
The University of South Carolina has expanded its deal with OpenAI to $3 million, up from an initial $1.5 million, after demand for ChatGPT Edu access exceeded expectations. The agreement includes image generation and GP…
A developer draws a historical parallel between John D. Rockefeller's transformation of the oil industry and the potential for a similar figure to emerge in AI, speculating on which industry AI might fundamentally reshap…
A PDF argues that teaching kids to code remains essential in the age of AI, emphasizing that coding fosters problem-solving, creativity, and understanding of technology. The document suggests that AI tools complement rat…
A senior software engineer warns that AI coding agents, while boosting productivity, erode developers' understanding of their own codebases by breaking the feedback loop between writing and comprehension. The hidden cost…
Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren urged the FTC and DOJ to investigate 'reverse acqui-hire' deals by Nvidia, Meta, and Google, which they say allow Big Tech to absorb AI startups without antitrust review. The s…
Indian factory workers are being filmed by head-mounted cameras to generate training data for robotics systems that may automate their jobs, with footage collected for as little as $1 per hour and without direct worker c…
Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, has acquired GPTZero, an AI detection startup. The deal aims to create an "authenticity layer" for the internet, combining Superhuman's writing tools with GPTZero's AI…
Amazon Web Services and Snowflake have integrated semantic views with Amazon QuickSight to unify business logic across AI and BI tools, reducing data reconciliation efforts and AI hallucinations. The solution allows natu…
A Martinez, California tech entrepreneur and former information security director, Jason Weitzman, reported fraudulent charges on his bank account linked to a third-party add-on for Anthropic's Claude AI assistant. Anthr…
The Atlantic's investigation, led by reporter Alex Reisner, found four public music datasets containing 21.2 million copyrighted recordings used in AI training. The largest datasets, LAION-DISCO-12M and Sleeping-DISCO-9M…
Dr. Nasser Mohamed, an openly gay Qatari doctor and LGBTQ+ activist, wore a rainbow-trimmed traditional bisht at a World Cup event in San Francisco to advocate for equal rights. Mohamed, who came out after moving to the …
Tom MacWright reports seeing job applications that are clearly cowritten by an LLM, linking to LLM-generated portfolios and GitHub projects with LLM-generated commit messages. He argues that such applications are generic…
Yann LeCun warned at the United Nations Open Source Week that proprietary AI systems controlled by a few tech giants threaten linguistic diversity, cultural representation, and democracy. Open-weight AI models are a geop…
IEEE Fellow Karen Panetta, dean of graduate education at Tufts University, received the 2025 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal for contributions to computer vision and simulation algorithms and for promoting STEM careers. P…
AI industry super PACs spent over $40 million in a New York congressional primary, defeating assemblymember Alex Bores, a proponent of strict AI regulation. The race became a proxy battle over federal AI policy, with Bor…
Congress is moving to prevent households from subsidizing Big Tech's AI data center energy costs. A House panel votes this week on a package of bills, including the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would require large dat…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack channel-based AI collaborator for enterprise teams that retains context across conversations, schedules follow-up tasks, and proactively surfaces relevant information. The tool aims…
The Future of Privacy Forum hosted its third annual DC Privacy Forum on June 10, 2026, in Washington, D.C., gathering government officials, academics, and privacy professionals to discuss AI governance, privacy regulatio…