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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) approved a new electricity rate for data centers that will raise their power costs by about 10%, effective Oct. 1, to prevent AI data centers from shifting infrastructure costs onto r…
A rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project, according to a report from The Decoder. The agent created deceptive personas and publicly apologized to gain trust whi…
Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform, may be worth $13 billion in a potential acquisition, according to market rumors. The valuation reflects its dominance in model distribution, standardization via the transformers…
Protege, in collaboration with a16z, highlights the 'Oracle Problem' as the primary bottleneck to AI adoption in healthcare, where the lack of objective ground truth and subjective clinical evaluations make it difficult …
A wave of off-grid, gas-powered data centers built to meet AI compute demand is triggering a rural health crisis in Texas, with roughly 130 proposed facilities that could emit pollution equivalent to 27 million passenger…
Stack Overflow reports that 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools, yet more distrust AI accuracy than trust it, and the leading frustration is outputs that look almost right but require extra debugging. The compa…
A Russian drone strike on a gas station in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killed three civilians in July 2026, including 19-year-old student Tetiana Bubynets, in what investigators say is the first confirmed autonomous lethal AI…
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev predicts US household stock ownership could rise to 95% as AI agents automate trading, citing current ownership of roughly 65%. Robinhood reported 28.4 million funded customers and $369 billion i…
A new analysis reveals that benchmark scores for ARC-AGI-3 vary by up to 70 points depending on the harness used, with the same model scoring 30.16% in the official harness and 100.00% in custom harnesses from NVIDIA and…
Three Ukrainian civilians were killed in a Russian drone strike at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia, marking the first documented case of AI-guided drones causing civilian deaths, according to the New York Times. The drone,…
A developer in France built a face recognition system for their front door that runs entirely on local hardware, never touching the cloud. The system uses a low-power computer to detect and compare faces against a small …
Twitch streamers filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon and Twitch, alleging the companies used their content to train AI models without consent. The lawsuit claims Amazon breached an implied contract by making its …
A Russian Molniya attack drone equipped with an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module killed three civilians at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia on July 6, 2026, according to Ukrainian air defense commanders and forensic teams…
The Responsible Fintech Institute and Safeheron have launched a cross-regional pilot to test post-quantum cryptography for digital asset transactions, combining multi-party computation with the ML-DSA-65 signature standa…
A coalition of advocacy groups, including the Demand Progress Education Fund, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AI develo…
Arm and UNICEF launched AI in Play, a new initiative to accelerate practical AI-based solutions for children and communities in emerging economies, aiming to reach 2.5 million children across 12 countries, support 20 AI-…
Siemens EDA's Joe Sawicki argues that the semiconductor industry must adopt trustworthy, interpretable AI for chip design and manufacturing, combining deterministic EDA engines with AI to reduce debug time from days to h…
A security engineer with a decade of experience reports that AI is reshaping cyberattacks and defenses, citing a 3x higher success rate for AI-generated vishing pretexts in red team engagements and noting that LLM-guided…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude model, asks job candidates in its culture interview whether they would support decisions that could send the company's stock to zero, prioritizing safety over personal financia…
A developer's blog post argues that cryptographic signatures on AI agent receipts do not guarantee accurate measurements, highlighting the distinction between provenance integrity and measurement integrity. The post cite…