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Residents of Lowell, Massachusetts, secured a one-year moratorium on data center construction and expansion, but a new lawsuit alleges that state officials and Markley, the developer of a towering data center nicknamed '…
Hong Kong has launched a two-month public consultation on its first five-year plan to align with Beijing's 2026-2030 blueprint, focusing on high-quality development, technological self-reliance, and economic rebalancing.…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, proposing a one-time 50% stock tax on the largest US AI companies to create a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund. The fund would dist…
Music producer Jimmy Jam said AI-generated music needs guardrails, consent, and compensation, and proposed a separate Billboard chart for AI songs. Speaking with Terry Lewis on Pandora's Artists on AI series, Jam argued …
Gibraltar barrister Philip Vasquez released version 1.2 of an open-source skills file designed to help AI systems navigate Gibraltar's fragmented public information landscape, covering legal framework, official sources, …
Midjourney, the AI lab known for image generation, announced a healthcare project called Midjourney Medical, featuring an underwater full-body ultrasound scanner that can create 3D body maps in 60 seconds. The company pl…
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…