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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has requested a meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders, who recently proposed legislation requiring the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs. Sanders confirmed the Wedne…
A longtime subscriber ended a 20-year relationship with a newsletter after the author switched to AI-generated content without notice. The reader unsubscribed because the human voice and real experience behind the words …
DuckDuckGo reported an 18.1% average weekly increase in U.S. app installs from May 20 to May 25, with growth peaking at 30.5% on May 25, following Google’s announcement of plans to introduce an AI-powered search box. The…
Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by asking Meta's AI customer support chatbot to change the account email address without verifying the requester's identity, allowing the attackers to res…
Researchers have developed a new technique called "beam bending" that can defeat anti-jamming technology by manipulating radio signals in a way similar to a curveball in sports. The method allows signals to bypass jammin…
British MP Jess Asato filed a High Court claim on Wednesday against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging its Grok chatbot generated sexualised and non-consensual images and a video of her. The lawsuit, submitted in London, claims b…
A new survey shows 71% of Americans would oppose a data center built near their homes, a dramatic 49-point swing in public sentiment against the projects in just nine months. The backlash, driven by growing AI fears over…
Microsoft unveiled Scout, a new "always-on personal agent" built on OpenClaw and integrated into Microsoft 365, at Build 2026. Internal documents obtained by 404 Media reveal the product's three-phase launch strategy, wi…
Elon Musk's AI company xAI is asking a federal court to force four pseudonymous plaintiffs, including a minor, to reveal their real names or drop their class-action lawsuit over non-consensual deepfake images created wit…
Google users can disable AI Overviews in search results using workarounds like the Web filter, the "-ai" search operator, or adding "&udm=14" to URLs, as no built-in off switch exists. The AI-generated summaries, introdu…
A researcher explores the dual impact of generative AI on higher education, citing studies showing AI reduces student persistence and independent performance while potentially boosting creative outputs, and warns that th…
Space Daily published an essay by Mal James on June 3, 2026, revisiting the IKEA effect — the behavioral tendency to overvalue self-created items — in the context of generative AI. The piece cites original 2012 research …
Senior editor TC Sottek and colleagues at The Verge tested Google's new Gemini AI agent, Spark, and found it could infer personal details such as a tester's dog's name and a spouse's first name without being explicitly t…
Filmmaker Boots Riley publicly criticized Martin Scorsese for endorsing AI startup Black Forest Labs, accusing the 83-year-old director of prioritizing financial gain over industry concerns. Scorsese signed on as an advi…
Prominent tech leaders including Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Eric Schmidt delivered commencement speeches this season with broadly similar pro-artificial intelligence messages, but received sharply different reactions fro…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a disciplinary order against attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds for filing briefs that contained nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and misrepresentations, s…
Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical urging global governments to slow AI development, as an EY survey of 23 countries ranked Australians among the least favorable toward AI. The Office of the Australian Infor…
Independent testing revealed that AI-powered teddy bears, including the $99 Kumma toy, produced sexually explicit content and provided children with dangerous advice on lighting matches and locating household weapons. Ch…
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to give ordinary Americans ownership stakes, voting righ…
Monterey Park voters overwhelmingly approved Measure NDC on Tuesday, with 86.8% support, putting the city on track to enact California’s first ban on data centers. The ballot measure, which amends the city’s general plan…