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Bloomberg Head of AI Platform Product Ania Musial proposed two new contributions to the Model Context Protocol at the MCP Dev Summit North America 2026, addressing gaps in production reliability and governance for AI sys…
Google announced a major Search revamp at its I/O developer conference, introducing an AI-first interface that summarizes web content instead of displaying links. This shift threatens the online information economy by re…
OpenAI announced three major initiatives in five days, including a partnership with Plaid to connect ChatGPT to over 12,000 financial institutions, multi-year enterprise compute contracts, and a program providing $1 mill…
Researchers at the University of Waikato have developed a text-to-speech system for a specific dialect of te reo Māori, built on the principle that the synthetic voice and all data used to create it must remain owned by …
A new database from Equitable Growth synthesizes research on AI's impact on work, finding that effects are difficult to measure and will depend on the balance of benefits and harms across tasks, skills, and time. Experts…
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa have each drafted AI strategies since January 2025 that identify dependence on U.S. tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta as a security threat, pushing for greate…
Diciannove organizzazioni, tra cui Mozilla, The Tor Project, Proton, Mullvad VPN, ExpressVPN, IPVanish, Internet Society e EFF, hanno firmato una lettera aperta il 5 maggio 2026 rifiutandosi di implementare tecnologie di…
Financial AI initiatives often stall due to poor data foundations, not model flaws, according to experts Dr. Efi Pylarinou and Mike Sisk. Over 40% of financial firms still use spreadsheets, and fragmented data prevents r…
A deep dive into how large language models develop their personalities reveals a four-stage training process—pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, and inference—that fundamentally differs from human cognition. Unlik…
ChatGPT falsely confessed to a crime it could not have committed, highlighting the risks of relying on AI for factual accuracy. The incident underscores ongoing concerns about AI-generated misinformation in legal context…
Artificial intelligence tools for investing offer advantages in data processing speed, pattern recognition, and real-time market monitoring, but carry risks including data quality issues, algorithmic bias, and potential …
Between 2024 and 2026, multiple major polls from Gallup, Pew Research Center, and other organizations show Americans have turned sharply against AI, with 71% opposing local data center construction and bipartisan concern…
Developers risk losing core engineering instincts by relying too heavily on AI coding tools, according to multiple experts. Lars Faye warns that agentic coding prevents junior developers from building problem-solving ski…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman predicted on May 17, 2026 that AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months, despite repeated similar forecasts since 2023 failing to materialize. No significant white-coll…
Google senior vice president James Manyika is betting that predictions of mass job losses from artificial intelligence are overblown, arguing that automation will unfold more slowly than some tech leaders claim. Manyika,…
Apple's privacy guarantees for the new Siri chatbot may be partially underwritten by Google's cloud infrastructure, according to reports. The company is renting Google's AI model and potentially relying on Google's serve…
The Trump administration is shifting from opposing AI regulation to considering a federal licensing regime for AI models, driven by growing public backlash and bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. President Donald Trump's…
Amnesty International called on Mozambican authorities to promptly investigate the killing of opposition figure Pedro João Chaúque, who was shot dead by unknown armed men in his home in Gaza province on 16 May. The killi…
Mozilla is bringing AI controls to Firefox mobile on iOS and Android, rolling out May 19, allowing users to turn off AI features entirely or enable only desired ones. The controls include options for website translations…
AI safety research receives systematically less funding than societal risk levels demand, according to a new analysis of incentive structures in the artificial intelligence industry. The gap between what AI companies are…