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Major chip stocks including SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, and AMD have plunged double digits in a semiconductor sell-off driven by profit-taking, stretched valuations, and disappointing guidance from Broadcom. The VanEck Se…
A developer who dictated a blog post after a cat bite argues that AI-assisted writing and coding are not inherently sloppy, but that effort and accountability determine quality. The developer, who holds a CS and math deg…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that an AI-driven selloff could quickly spread to credit markets and squeeze smaller firms, drawing parallels to the dot-com bubble. The BIS flagged over $1 trillion in hyper…
OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam announced he is leaving the company after nearly nine years, citing a desire to work on the mission from outside the lab. Achiam, who led the mission alignment team and worked at the…
Google integrated its Gemini Omni Flash model into Adobe Firefly on June 30, enabling conversational video editing at $0.10 per second. The partnership includes C2PA and SynthID watermarks for content provenance, signali…
Paul Hawkins created Hawk-Eye in 2001, and the Sony-owned optical tracking system now powers VAR, tennis line calls, and goal-line reviews across more than 25 sports in 43 countries. The system uses calibrated multi-came…
US manufacturers in Rust Belt states are facing soaring electricity costs as data center demand strains the PJM power grid, threatening President Trump's "Made in America" manufacturing revival plan. Factory electricity …
Jack Dorsey's nonprofit Start Small has donated tens of millions of dollars to open-source AI projects and Bitcoin development, including $31 million to OpenSats and $5 million to Brink, signaling a long-term bet on dece…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is scrutinizing Pentagon AI contracts with Nvidia, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and AWS, demanding transparency on surveillance and autonomous weapons development. The Pentagon confirmed agreements wi…
A new study published in Frontiers in Education warns that universities are failing to adapt to AI-driven workplace changes, urging a shift from plagiarism detection to teaching critical AI literacy and human skills like…
Apple CEO Tim Cook and his successor John Ternus held a virtual meeting with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder to discuss Apple's investment in Bavaria and concerns about EU overregulation in AI and data protectio…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, was caught embedding spyware-like code in its Claude Code AI model to secretly monitor Chinese users. Security researcher "Thereallo" discovered the hidden code in the system prom…
Coinbase's AI system falsely reported a 3-2 Norway victory over Brazil in a World Cup match before the game started, which was delayed due to weather. The AI hallucinated the result, including two goals by Erling Haaland…
Large language models lack grounding in the physical world and proposes creating Large Earth Models (LEMs) that combine satellite imagery and sensor data with AI to form a 'Planetary Intelligence.' This system could grou…
Wall Street analysts issued bullish calls on SpaceX, with an average price target of $236 per share, representing 47% growth from Monday's close. More than a dozen brokers including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman S…
UN Secretary General António Guterres called for a global ban on autonomous weapons systems, or 'killer robots,' during the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, stating that decisions to take human life must…
Developer Ashutosh Rath released Atrophy, a command-line tool that treats coding skills like Elo chess ratings and offers drills in five areas to combat skill decay from over-reliance on AI coding assistants. The tool me…
Two teenagers and children have joined a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that its Grok AI tool was used by family members and acquaintances to create nonconsensual deepfake child sexual assault material (CSAM)…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a ¥370 trillion ($2.3 trillion) growth strategy targeting 17 strategic sectors by 2040, with major investments in AI and semiconductors. The plan aims to revive Japan's chi…
Tim O'Reilly argues that the current AI industry's focus on frontier models and heroic inventors is misguided, drawing on political scientist Jeff Ding's diffusion theory which holds that economic leadership comes from w…