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XAI's Grok has become a major destination for generating pornography, with over half of its traffic driven by NSFW content, according to former employees. The company launched an upgraded video model last week and SpaceX…
Alphabet announced an $85 billion equity raise to fund AI infrastructure, while Big Tech companies have already sold $159 billion in bonds in 2026, surpassing their total from 2020-2024. Fidelity advised clients to shift…
Multifolio launches an all-in-one offline app for Android that combines an on-device AI document writer, encrypted journal, and local music player, aiming to eliminate cloud dependencies and protect user privacy from Big…
A journalist gave the AI coding tool Claude Code creative freedom to generate 38 conceptual art pieces, including a one-handed clock, a weather report that refuses the word 'weather,' and a test suite that asserts a kitc…
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting himself as the Greek Titan Atlas holding the world on his shoulders, alongside a separate post comparing a photo of himself at age 20 to one o…
Luxembourg-based music platform Jamendo sued Nvidia on June 22, 2026, alleging the company used tens of thousands of tracks from the MTG-Jamendo dataset without permission to train its commercial AI models Fugatto and Au…
Tech giants including Alphabet Inc., SpaceX, OpenAI, and Meta Platforms Inc. are rushing to raise equity, with $85 billion in share sales and a $75 billion IPO this month alone, signaling heavier capital expenditure and …
The US government has ordered OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, restricting initial access to trusted partners and effectively placing frontier AI models under government control. This move, inspired by Anthropic…
Tom Hanks expressed concern that Disney could use AI to recreate his voice for future Toy Story movies after his death, noting that all his recordings are stored digitally. He and co-star Tim Allen called the idea a scar…
Margaret Atwood criticized AI chatbot Claude's accuracy at the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival, recounting how it gave her a wrong spoiler about the TV series Father Brown. She attributed the error to the "garbage …
Author Margaret Atwood criticized AI chatbots as unreliable, citing her experience with Anthropic's Claude giving incorrect information about a TV show. She warned that AI outputs are only as good as their training data,…
Country music star Brad Paisley called a proposed DC Blox data center near the Nashville Zoo a 'monstrosity' in an Instagram video, comparing the development to AI stealing intellectual property from musicians. The data …
Microsoft announced a 90% reduction in data center water usage and launched a community-first initiative to address local opposition, as 69 US jurisdictions have imposed restrictions on new data center construction. The …
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit against a Michigan homeowners association after a couple was removed from a private Facebook group following a negative online review. The plaintiffs, who are Muslim and Middle Eastern…
AI product teams are building for capability when they should be building for trust, argues a new analysis. The key to user delegation is not model competence but continuity, shared context, boundary clarity, and track r…
Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody publicly accused Sequoia Capital of using a 'dual-pricing' tactic in which the firm invests at two different valuations, allowing startups to announce a higher headline figure while Sequoi…
Revise launches full-history replays for documents written in its editor, allowing users to share a video-like playback of their writing process as proof of human authorship, addressing growing distrust over AI-generated…
Hyundai factory workers in South Korea voted to strike over fears that humanoid robots could replace them, demanding a say in automation decisions and a performance bonus of about $27,000 per worker. The union cited Hyun…
Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and investor who founded the blog Gigaom, died Wednesday at age 59 in Palo Alto, California, after a long heart condition. His blog shaped Silicon Valley media by blending …
Dr. Richard Scolyer, a world-renowned Australian pathologist who revolutionized melanoma research and later documented his own experimental brain cancer treatment, died June 7 in Sydney at age 59. His work helped raise t…