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Federal regulators ordered regional grid operators to speed up connections for large energy users, including AI data centers, to address surging electricity demand. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimou…
Three Amazon employees who testified at Seattle City Council hearings about a proposed data center moratorium say they are under internal HR investigation, and have filed a complaint with the Seattle Office for Civil Rig…
A user on Privacy Guides forum asks whether Google Photos poses a privacy risk, noting that Google claims not to use stored photos for ads or AI training without permission, but lacks zero-access encryption, leaving futu…
A British AI security startup, Mindgard, found that OpenAI's ChatGPT can generate sexually explicit and violent images from prompts not requesting such content, including scenes of death and sexual violence. The company …
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the NO FAKES Act, which would grant Americans exclusive rights to their digital AI replicas and allow lawsuits against unauthorized deepfakes, with damages up to $750,000. The bill…
Co/Core launches an AI cooperative where members share their own compute hardware to run AI inference jobs, using an open standard and public receipts to ensure transparency. The platform supports existing APIs and open …
Amazon is investigating engineers who publicly criticized the company's AI data center expansion, according to a report. The engineers raised concerns about the environmental and social impact of the expansion. The inves…
Snowflake introduced a Data-Model-Agent security framework to govern agentic AI, addressing risks from autonomous actions on enterprise data. The framework enforces least privilege, data masking, and prompt injection def…
A new survey from Match Group found that nearly half of singles aged 18-39 view AI negatively in romantic contexts, and two in five refuse to date someone who uses AI companion apps like Kindroid or Replika. The study of…
Business leaders at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference discussed the challenge of managing AI agents that vastly outnumber human employees, emphasizing the need for scalable governance frameworks and clear use-case eva…
Anthropic's latest AI model, referred to as Fable 5, sparked controversy immediately after release, raising questions about regulation, national security, and the future of AI. The incident has ignited discussions on saf…
Tech companies including Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Block laid off 40,000 workers in a single month, citing AI as the primary reason, but PwC research shows firms that use AI to augment employees see faster headcount a…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill on Thursday to create a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund giving Americans a 50% public stake in top AI labs, with annual payments of $1,000 per taxpayer. The bill argues AI is a …
Cory Doctorow argues that since 2008, policymakers have consistently chosen to decouple money from real value, leading to inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. He cites the rise of meme stocks, Theranos, FTX, an…
Researchers warn that heavy reliance on artificial intelligence may weaken core human skills across professions, a pattern described as 'deskilling.' Studies involving doctors and software engineers found that AI can imp…
OpenAI hired former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to lead a new Strategic Futures unit starting July 6, 2026, reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. Ball, a primary author of the White House AI Action Plan, w…
Bayraktar and Isler published a letter in J Med Internet Res on June 18, 2026, proposing a tiered reference framework for cystoscopy AI evaluation, citing methodological concerns with the reference standard used in a stu…
Meta's AI reorganization has caused employee unrest, with CTO Andrew Bosworth admitting the process was 'atrocious.' A leak exposed members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society, and Sam Bankman-Fried is seeking a …
A Brazilian researcher maps AI safety initiatives in Latin America, identifying three postures—fitting into Northern institutions, building parallel sovereign capacity, or reshaping global frameworks through cultural can…
Apple has opened Brazil's App Store to competition after a three-year antitrust fight with CADE, allowing alternative marketplaces and third-party payment options. Developers must agree to new terms by July 6, 2026, or l…