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California's state government disclosed six high-risk AI systems in June, up from zero a year earlier, after a state law forced agencies to inventory automated decision tools. The systems include recidivism prediction an…
AI-driven automation is exposing structural waste in programmatic advertising, forcing transparency into a system built on opaque margins and intermediaries. As AI audits the supply chain, buyers gain visibility into hid…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would give the U.S. government 50% ownership of AI companies with over $200 million in annual sales and pay every American $1,000 yearly fro…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the 'American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act' on June 18, 2026, proposing a one-time 50% tax on the stock of the largest U.S. AI companies to create a public fund worth an estimated $7 trilli…
Klarna Chief Marketing Officer David Sandström created an internal AI replica of himself for employees to vent during budget cuts, according to Business Insider and Entrepreneur. The tool, built on ElevenLabs' platform, …
Jeremy Grantham warns that Big Tech's monopoly era is ending as AI spending reaches $725 billion, creating a brutal competitive landscape that could compress margins and reshape markets. The GMO co-founder compares the A…
A new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance launched on June 18 to counter Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC that has raised over $100 million for the 2026 midterms. The Guardrails Alliance, backed by tech worker…
Anjney Midha, founder of AMP, argues that the AI scaling race is not just about acquiring more GPUs but about maximizing the efficiency of existing hardware, citing xAI's sub-10% Model FLOPs Utilization as a symptom of s…
Three Amazon software engineers—Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesel Wigand—say they are being investigated by Amazon for speaking out at a Seattle City Council hearing in favor of regulating AI data centers. The…
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) launched a major initiative in November 2025 to develop a multi-pronged strategy for LLM-generated AI in free and open source software (FOSS), moving beyond outright bans. SFC will …
A developer recounts an encounter with an anti-AI activist at a Kenyatta University tech club event in 2017. The activist interrupted an Intel-supported presentation, arguing that AI was 'playing god,' then left his phon…
Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a $7 trillion plan to transfer control of the AI industry to the American public through a 50% tax on large AI firms, creating a sovereign wealth fund that would pay annual dividends to ev…
A Stanford-led study of 3.4 million people and 4 million job applications found that AI hiring algorithms from a single vendor produced racial disparities, with 26% of Black applicants and 15% of Asian applicants facing …
The Conversation reports that people are forming intimate relationships with AI companions, with one study finding 75% of respondents believe chatbots are conscious. A new philosophy paper argues that while AI can reduce…
AI pioneer Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI 'kind of a failure,' citing difficulty hiring top talent and reliance on renting infrastructure to recoup costs. LeCun also warned that AI labs face a 'big bubble explosion' u…
The Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) extension for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is now stable, enabling organizations to centrally manage OAuth authorization for MCP servers and allowing end-users to access all…
A patient discovered their doctor used AI to create a personalized infographic containing their full name and likeness, sent via WhatsApp, without prior consent or privacy safeguards. The patient, already concerned about…
Karamo Brown, star of Netflix's 'Queer Eye,' launched Kē, a wellness app featuring an AI digital clone of himself powered by startup Delphi. The app offers personalized fitness, nutrition, and meditation plans, along wit…
A proposed AI data centre in Larbert, Scotland, would become one of the country's top ten polluters if approved, according to environmental concerns. The facility's energy demands could make it a major source of emission…
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet warned that Europe is 'quite behind' in the AI race, with the US purchasing 80% of advanced AI chips and Europe accounting for only 1-2% of ASML's high-end lithography system shipments over th…