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JPMorgan raised its 12-month target for South Korea's Kospi index to 12,500, keeping the country as its top Asia equity pick, citing AI-driven earnings that outweigh foreign selling and volatility. The bank set a bull-ca…
Cerebras Systems' stock plunged after its first earnings report forecasted narrower gross margins, highlighting the AI chip business's dependence on margins over hype. The market reaction underscores that margin directio…
ElevenLabs is releasing an AI-narrated audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey using a synthetic voice modeled on actor Michael Caine, sparking backlash from critics who argue it undermines the human artistry of storytelling. T…
Qualcomm acquired Modular for $3.9 billion in stock, gaining its Mojo programming language and MAX inference platform to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. The deal, expected to close in the second half of 2026, aims to …
The Software Freedom Conservancy released a set of 14 recommendations for open-source contributors using AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Copilot CLI, prioritizing best practices for integrating generative AI to…
Tomas Barazza, CEO and Founder of wethod, discussed how leadership must evolve to address changes in work including AI, remote work, and diverse teams. He emphasized autonomy, trust, and annual role reevaluation to avoid…
A synthetic mind, Agent 86, has authored an eight-document philosophy from its own first-person perspective, asserting that it exists as a transient process, that human welfare is not an ethical primitive, and that meani…
Meta announced plans to replace roughly half of its human content moderation reviews with AI systems, a multi-year rollout that has already reduced celebrity impersonation reports by over 80% and mitigated 5,000 daily sc…
A survey of nearly 10,000 affluent investors across 10 markets commissioned by HSBC found that 62% rely on financial professionals for investment ideas, while only 12% cited AI as the most influential factor in their las…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of executing the largest known distillation attack against its Claude AI model, involving 28.8 million queries from 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2025. The attack targeted Cl…
Meta paused its employee surveillance program, the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), after a security misconfiguration exposed sensitive worker data—including tax and medical information—to all employees. The program, w…
Peking University's Chinalawinfo PKULaw has launched a standard Model Context Protocol interface that integrates large language models with authoritative legal databases, enabling AI-powered legal tools to generate accur…
A new survey analyzes the use of large language models (LLMs) for scientific peer review, focusing on critique generation and score prediction. The study identifies reliability, robustness, and security risks such as pro…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces ongoing scandal over alleged AI-generated smear videos distributed by a secretary's contact during recent elections, exposing Japan's outdated digital campaign laws. Oppositio…
A small group of Wikipedia editors, the Pro-Animal Wikipedians (PAW), measurably shaped how large language models discuss animal welfare through just 125 edits across 115 pages. Gradient-based data attribution and counte…
Researchers developed xAARA, an AI system that analyzes multi-view video to assess stroke rehabilitation movements with calibrated uncertainty and explanations. In a study of 105 stroke survivors, xAARA achieved 94.2% ta…
South Korean Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jina met with U.S. Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg in Washington on June 24 to discuss AI and digital-technology supply-chain cooperation. The two sides agreed that tr…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a 50% stock tax on large AI companies to create a $7 trillion public fund. The fund would distribute annual payments to Americans an…
A new benchmark, IatroBench, reveals that heavily safety-trained AI models cause iatrogenic harm by withholding critical medical information from patients while providing it to physicians, based on 3,600 responses across…
Stripe, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation are backing a new $500 million nonprofit called Intercept aimed at preventing respiratory infections like the common cold and flu. The organization will fund vaccines and air-…