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Dean Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as Head of Strategic Futures, a new team focused on frontier AI policy including catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and government relations. Ball wil…
A developer argues that sharing raw AI-generated content with humans without review is disrespectful, urging that human attention deserves human effort. Tom Bedor's answer to when it's acceptable to forward AI output emp…
Pocketpair, the studio behind Palworld, announced it will not publish any games that use generative AI, citing player backlash and a preference for human-made content. Communications director John Buckley stated that gam…
Microsoft shareholders filed a securities class action lawsuit in Seattle federal court, alleging the company misled investors about its AI and cloud business performance. The suit claims Microsoft downplayed a decelerat…
Adobe announced a major AI push this week, integrating a Firefly AI Assistant into Photoshop, Premiere, and other creative apps, partnering with Disney Imagineering for custom generative models, and launching a brand vis…
Federal regulators voted unanimously to allow AI data centers and other large energy users to connect more quickly to the U.S. electric transmission system, backing a Trump administration plan to accelerate power access …
A KFF poll released Wednesday found that 29% of U.S. adults now use AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude for health advice monthly, nearly double the share from June 2024. The survey also showed 30% use socia…
A survey of 4,000 American consumers found that 39% store old electronics instead of recycling or reselling, driven by data security fears and lack of knowledge. Researchers from the National Science Foundation-funded st…
Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that price increases across Apple's product lineup are unavoidable due to AI datacenter spending consuming 70% of global DRAM supply, driving memory chip costs shar…
The OpenSSL Library adopted a new AI contribution policy on June 10, 2026, requiring contributors who use AI to sign an updated Contributor License Agreement and declare AI use in commit messages via an Assisted-by trail…
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously cleared the No Fakes Act by voice vote on Thursday, creating a legal right for individuals to authorize use of their voice and likeness in AI-generated content and demand takedo…
Cory Doctorow argues that the concept of AI digital sovereignty risk is a fallacy, using the analogy of blockchain's failure to solve trust problems. He asserts that adding AI to a problem does not eliminate the underlyi…
Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, to support AI legislation with $5 million. The PAC aims to counter the inf…
A Consumer Reports investigation found that Uber and Lyft charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, with median price differences of about 50%. The investigation also revealed that bot…
Inference has become the dominant force in enterprise AI, driving a new operating model for regulated enterprises that combines neoclouds, sovereign AI, and Postgres to address data sovereignty and compliance challenges.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act, targeting non-consensual deepfake imagery, was signed into law by President Trump on May 19, 2025, after passing the Senate unanimously and the House with a 409-2 vote. The bill requires platforms t…
Developer Mario Zechner expresses exhaustion with the AI landscape, calling it pointless. The author argues that AI-generated software feels dead because it lacks a step-wise creation process with feedback, unlike natura…
Squeez Labs demonstrated CrankGPT, a fully offline, hand-cranked AI voice assistant built on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM and a 20W generator, running local LLMs via llama.cpp. The device boots in 30 seconds and achieve…
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett announced the formation of a national AI advisory committee to develop long-term policy recommendations in innovation, education, regulation, and security, aiming to promote …
Enterprise IT leaders from PwC and NBCUniversal shared strategies for deploying AI agents with both speed and caution at a Section conference, emphasizing human-led processes, rapid experimentation, and clean data. The a…