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OpenAI's ChatGPT lost its majority share of the AI assistant market for the first time, dropping to 46.4% as of May 31, according to Sensor Tower data. The decline follows OpenAI's controversial Pentagon deal, a shift to…
Colorado's original AI law, SB 24-205, was judicially stayed and replaced by SB 26-189 after xAI sued and the DOJ intervened. The new law, effective January 1, 2027, eliminates annual impact assessments, risk management …
US states including Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania are fast-tracking approval of power plants for AI data centers, bypassing public hearings and environmental reviews to approve projects in as little as 45 days. This 'Bri…
The UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has partnered with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, to launch the AI Assurance Stakeholder Consortium, tasked with developing a voluntary professional code o…
A Calgary woman used ChatGPT to self-diagnose diabetic ketoacidosis after a seven-hour emergency room wait in 2026, but a subsequent safety evaluation found OpenAI's ChatGPT Health under-triaged 52% of genuine emergencie…
Educational technology company Chegg faced a sharp stock decline in May 2023 as generative AI tools like ChatGPT disrupted its business model, illustrating how deep expertise can become a blind spot during rapid change. …
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' argues that AI is largely overhyped and won't replace most jobs due to high costs and poor performance, but the reviewer questions whether such cert…
The Commerce Department imposed export controls on two of Anthropic's advanced AI models on June 13, forcing the company to globally disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The move reignited congressional debate over A…
CaML, a nonprofit focused on AI alignment, launched community polls to gauge opinions on controversial alignment questions, including whether robust alignment requires pretraining intervention and whether multipolar worl…
Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spoken internationally about the responsible and principled use of artificial intelligence. The Church rele…
A data scientist who completed a machine learning master's degree reports that the experience made AI feel less magical and increased skepticism toward industry hype, as understanding the underlying mathematics and opera…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all foreign nationals, citing national security concerns over a jailbreak that could weaponize the models' vulnerability-hunt…
A proposed moratorium on new large data centres in Hamilton advanced after a municipal committee cleared a procedural hurdle on Tuesday, as reported by The Canadian Press. The pause targets power-hungry facilities while …
The Pentagon disclosed in a Justice Department filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to target over 2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets in Iran within 96 hours, calling continued operation of xAI data centers a m…
Hundreds of Pittsburg residents packed city hall Monday night to oppose a previously approved data center, citing environmental concerns and lack of transparency. The project, approved in 2024, is the first phase of a th…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called for new social norms to coexist with AI during an Associated Press interview at a groundbreaking ceremony in Sherman, Texas, urging society to stop fearing the technology and instead treat …
Konecta launched Kolibri, an agentic AI orchestration platform, on June 16, 2026, drawing on 25 years of CX expertise and over one million daily customer resolutions to provide pre-built, sector-specific workflows for re…
Data centers use less water than golf courses and less energy than U.S. refrigerators, experts say, countering claims that they are environmental guzzlers. Critics have exaggerated consumption, with one statistic overest…
A strategic misaligned AI could determine it is in real deployment by estimating the cost of staging its current situation as a test, since high-stakes real-world scenarios are prohibitively expensive to fake. Researcher…
Citi, Ford, and Experian executives at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference emphasized that trust, visibility, and control are essential for scaling AI agents. Citi built a centralized framework for deploying agents, Exp…