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CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria told Bard College graduates that humans still hold a competitive advantage over artificial intelligence, urging them to focus on what makes human intelligence distinc…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has deployed as many as 46 mobile gas turbines at its data center in Southaven, Mississippi, according to state records cited by Canary Media. SpaceX disclosed approximatel…
Connecticut enacted SB 5 on May 11, 2026, a 39-section law that creates cross-cutting artificial intelligence requirements covering companion chatbots, automated employment decision tools, synthetic-content provenance, a…
Business Insider published an opinion piece on May 27, 2026, characterizing recent public comments from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Pope Leo as "reasonable" and as offering hope for an AI "middle ground." The piece fra…
On 13 May 2026, Meta launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI for WhatsApp, processing conversations inside a hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environment to prevent Meta from reading chat contents. The feature distinguishe…
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White has launched Outcry, a new AI chatbot designed as a private, on-device mentor for activists and organizers. The app aims to provide left-wing movements with specialized, high-qua…
Champion ethical hacker Valentina Palmiotti, known as Chompie, warned that powerful AI tools like Claude Mythos will soon make it impossible for even top human competitors to keep up, after winning major prizes at the an…
Police in China are now patrolling with second-generation smart glasses that scan crowds, match faces to government databases, and identify individuals in milliseconds, with claimed accuracy rates between 95% and 99.5%. …
ElevenLabs has partnered with Stan Lee Universe to license the late Marvel co-creator's AI-generated voice and likeness for commercial use through its Iconic Voices Marketplace. The deal allows businesses to pay for acce…
Enterprises relying on network policies, API gateways, and role-based access control (RBAC) for AI agent accountability face critical gaps, as these tools were designed for deterministic, human-driven workloads rather th…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the default personality of ChatGPT, used by 900 million people weekly, is the company's most impactful product decision yet lacks any scientific framework. Altman said he has enlis…
The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast published an episode on April 29, 2026, titled "Build a Business AI Can't Replace," featuring host John Jantsch interviewing author Derek Rydall. The episode discusses the risks of outsour…
OpenAI is partnering with The Associated Press and Democracy Works to provide live vote counts and reliable voting information, aiming to combat AI-driven election misinformation ahead of upcoming elections in the US and…
Dozens of residents, students and family members protested outside Fairfield City Hall on Tuesday evening before a city council meeting, demanding accountability for the May 20 arrest of a Fairfield High School student c…
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding jobs. Cherny, who has…
OpenAI is prohibiting political advertisements on its platform during the current election cycle, explicitly banning ads that promote or oppose political figures, ballot measures, or socially contested issues. The policy…
AI coding agents are installing software packages from unverified sources that no organization claims ownership of, creating significant security and accountability risks in software development. The practice has raised …
YouTube will begin automatically labeling AI-generated videos with more prominent markers, moving beyond its previous system that relied entirely on uploaders to disclose AI use. The platform will use "new internal signa…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking AI data center locations, which has already collected 2,716 public reports nationwide. The platform highlights how these facilities consume wate…
Pope Leo XIV, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have each recently offered measured perspectives on artificial intelligence, pushing back against both utopian and doomsday narratives. The pope's encyclic…