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ER Steel, a global structural steel fabricator, argues that responsible AI infrastructure development requires integrated construction coordination, modular fabrication, and energy diversification, not just speed. With d…
Stigg announces Stigg 2.0, a real-time entitlement and metering platform for AI products, addressing the need for synchronous access decisions on every API call. The company argues that existing billing systems fail AI c…
Money-saving expert Martin Lewis said he is 'losing this battle' against AI-generated scams using his face, voice, and name to trick people into fake investment schemes, with victims continuing to lose significant sums d…
Habitual publisher traffic is collapsing as AI bot traffic surged 187% in 2025 while human traffic grew only 3.1%, eroding the click-based value exchange. Direct traffic to major publishers fell 19.9% to 33.1% over three…
Central banks, including the ECB and Federal Reserve, are evaluating whether artificial intelligence will drive inflation, with potential policy shifts on the horizon. Kevin Warsh emphasized the central bank's role in as…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said the central bank must determine whether artificial intelligence is contributing to inflation, describing AI as 'structurally disinflationary' in contrast to other Fed officials who …
Anthropic faces allegations of embedding spyware-like code in its Claude AI model to detect connections linked to China, raising compliance and safety concerns that may delay the restoration of Claude Fable 5 in the US. …
Kevin Warsh, a prominent figure in monetary policy, said the central bank must determine whether artificial intelligence has an inflationary impact, adding to the debate over potential Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2026. …
A growing gap between insider and outsider access to frontier AI models threatens the effectiveness of external safety research, with government restrictions and deployment lags likely to widen the divide. The author arg…
Jamir Nazir's short story 'The Serpent in the Grove' won the Commonwealth short story prize amid accusations of AI-generated content, sparking debate over authenticity in literature. Granta, a literary magazine, withdrew…
Cloudflare introduces the Agentic Internet, a framework requiring AI to pay for content access, merging finance and computation. The initiative aims to establish economic accountability for AI transactions, urging tech l…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also rebranded its Pay Per C…
A Stanford study of 12,000 companies found that high AI-adoption firms grew headcount by 10.2% and entry-level hiring by 12% over 18 months, while low-AI firms shrank by 1.8%. The data challenges the narrative that AI el…
Apple confirmed a $1 billion/year deal to use Google Gemini as the foundation of Siri across 2 billion devices, replacing OpenAI's ChatGPT. The partnership ended due to OpenAI's latency issues, poor subscriber economics,…
A United Nations report warns that the rapid spread of artificial intelligence may worsen global inequality, as adoption and investment accelerate unevenly across the world. The report from the independent international …
A new survey published in AI & SOCIETY reveals that AI experts are significantly more optimistic about the future of automation than the general public, with experts perceiving lower risks and greater benefits. The study…
As AI reshapes data access, security teams must abandon three outdated practices: static access controls, perimeter-based security, and manual compliance checks. Continuous visibility and governance are now essential to …
Cloudflare has introduced the Agentic Internet, a framework requiring AI systems to pay for the content they consume. The move aims to establish new standards for content compensation in the AI era, with implications for…
Cloudflare announced it will default to blocking mixed-use crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites, citing broken crawl-for-traffic bargains with AI companies. The move affects roughly 20 percent of the we…
One year after Cloudflare declared Content Independence Day, AI training crawlers now account for 52% of crawler requests, up from 22% in spring 2025. Non-human traffic has surpassed 50% of all internet traffic, and the …