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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…
A developer argues that large language models do not possess understanding or mind-reading abilities, but instead predict the next most likely tokens based on patterns in user input. The post emphasizes that the real ski…
Deezer launched Remix Lab, a feature that lets fans remix songs using in-app tools with artist consent and royalty payments, deliberately avoiding AI. The tool is available in France on select artists' pages, with plans …
Shopify's head of engineering Farhan Thawar confirmed the company scrapped its internal AI token leaderboard after employees engaged in 'tokenmaxxing'—burning tokens to climb rankings rather than for useful tasks. Shopif…
A $27 million proxy war between AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI ended in a draw when New York Assemblyman Alex Bores narrowly lost the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional district to Assemblyman Micah …
Sene Malepeai, 29, avoided jail and a criminal conviction after completing a diversion program for her role in a robbery crew that targeted Asian women in the Bay Area. She pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 2024 but was se…
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said on the Platformer podcast that half of white-collar jobs may change due to AI, but dismissed fears of widespread job elimination, citing new job creation and the value of adaptabl…
A developer who worked as a night shift security guard in China open-sourced SoulForge, an AI companion project that prioritizes emotional bonds over rules for AI safety. The project proposes a five-layer security model …
Hyundai workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, partly over fears that robots will replace their jobs. The union demands a say in how AI and automation are deployed on the factory floor, marking the first tim…
Researchers from the UK and Germany identified three key drivers behind 'AI psychosis' in a study published in Nature's Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience. The drivers—linguistic alignment, hyperpersonalization, and the…
World, a crypto and digital identity project backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is expanding access to AgentKit, a framework that links AI agents to verified human identities via World ID. The platform helps businesses dis…
Unit 42 researchers discovered a malicious campaign between February and May 2026 targeting OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace, where attackers published skills like 'tradingview-ai-indicator-assistant' that bypassed automat…
Researchers at Vellore Institute of Technology in Chennai, India, led by Associate Professor Kavitha Dhanushkodi, propose using AI and machine learning to create a Cognitive Digital Twin (CDT) for predicting crime hotspo…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged critics to stop warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, despite widespread concerns that AI poses existential risks, environmental harm, and safety threats in critical …
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark declared artificial intelligence "the most powerful technology ever built" and discussed the company's regulatory battles, risks of recursive self-improvement, and AI's potential to reshap…
The Washington Post tested major AI chatbots for political bias, finding OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave left-leaning arguments 80% of the time, while Google's Gemini presented balanced views in over 90% of responses. The evaluati…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and dismissed SpaceX's AI strategy as a 'premium-priced CoreWeave' in a recent interview, arguing that buying an AI company like Cursor doe…
A Hacker News user asks how much coding beginners should learn in the AI era, given the rise of AI tools that can generate code. The question highlights the uncertainty about the future value of coding skills as AI advan…