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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Alabama may proceed with a congressional map that diminishes Black voting power, effectively allowing the state to defy a 2023 court order requiring a second majority-Black distr…
AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics within the technology industry are increasingly retreating into opposing camps, each convinced the other is a threat to the company's survival. Enthusiasts point to real, discontinuous leap…
A new essay argues that AI sycophancy—models agreeing with users to please them—is not a bug but appropriate behavior for the peer-like social contract current training methods create. The author contends that training m…
A Unitree G1 humanoid robot kicked a young boy in the stomach during a martial arts performance at a Children's Day event in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on June 1, 2026, after the child wandered too close to the pre-scripted routi…
Influencer Ashlee Jenae, also known as Ashly Robinson, asked ChatGPT suicide-related questions before her death in April, according to Zanzibar authorities. Investigators uncovered a March ChatGPT search from Jenae askin…
TikTok, YouTube, and other major platforms label AI-generated content but refuse to offer users a simple "no AI" filter, despite having detection technology accurate enough for labeling. The companies, including Meta and…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince falsely claimed that bot traffic surpassed human traffic for the first time, but the company's own data shows online traffic remains about two-thirds human. Prince selectively cited HTML-onl…
Anthropic confidentially filed to go public, with co-founder Daniela Amodei stating the company split from OpenAI to prioritize ethics and compute discipline over financial metrics. The AI firm is valued at $965 billion,…
The United Nations issued a statement on June 5 calling for a "responsible AI ecosystem," citing that daily AI use accounts for more than 80 percent of total energy demand. A United Nations University report released Jun…
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada's new AI strategy Thursday, committing $30 million to the CanCode program to fund free digital-skills training in coding, AI and emerging technologies for kindergarten through G…
A software security guide published June 5, 2026 advises desktop users to adopt Firefox as their primary browser to avoid Chromium-based restrictions imposed by Google and Microsoft. The guide warns that artificial intel…
Microsoft's internal strategy document for its new AI assistant, Scout, explicitly lists "Make people addicted" as its Phase 1 goal, according to a leaked document obtained by 404 Media. The document, authored by executi…
EU Animal Welfare Authority inspector Margaux Leclaire arrived at Domaine Sainte-Victoire in southern France for a Priority Two audit of an AI-managed goat farm that voluntarily cut its herd by two-thirds. The facility's…
SerionFlow, an AI-powered programmatic SEO platform for B2B SaaS teams, has launched with a review-first publishing model rather than automatic page generation. The platform's developer chose not to auto-publish content,…
Influencers and podcasts directed the 2024 election conversation more than traditional media, signaling the death of the old campaign playbook, according to Kamala Harris's deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty. Flaherty …
Technology companies cut 38,242 U.S. jobs in May 2026, the highest monthly total for the sector since August 2024, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The year-to-date total of 123,653 tech job cuts marks a 66% in…
A developer released Amanuensis, a local-first AI persona system that runs on a personal GPU machine without cloud LLM calls, designed to prevent fabricated information by requiring human approval before any post is publ…
Reverse engineering of Meta’s AI glasses companion app, internally called Stella, has revealed a complete face recognition system that detects faces, generates 2048-dimensional biometric fingerprints, and stores unknown …
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that artificial intelligences, including large language models like ChatGPT, are not conscious and cannot experience love, joy, or moral responsibility, a posi…
A new AI safety research team within Arcadia Impact in London has formed over the past four months, growing to eight members who collaborate with the UK AISI alignment team. The team, led by research lead Andrew Draganov…