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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-…
Digital M&A in Q2 2026 shows a structural shift toward business durability, AI resilience, and clean profitability, with premium assets clearing at high multiples while young, paid-traffic-dependent businesses face steep…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of running 28.8 million API queries through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts over 45 days to distill Claude's software engineering and agentic reasoning capabilities. The attack, disclosed on J…
UOB has deployed over 300 AI and advanced analytics use cases and more than 30 domain-specific chatbots under its Build-Your-Own-Bot platform, emphasizing a disciplined, people-first approach to innovation. The bank's In…
DeepSeek V4's pricing is nearly 50x cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier models, raising concerns that the US companies may rely on fearmongering and government bans on open-weight models to maintain high prices …
Researchers at the College of the Holy Cross trained six pigeons to detect lung nodules in CT scans, with the birds generalizing to unseen scans and identifying other abnormalities like emphysema. The study, published in…
Former New York City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi was charged with forgery for using AI to create fake endorsements and news articles on social media. Prosecutors allege he fabricated a New York Post story and a Qu…
Scbkr, a local AI responsibility-chain control layer, introduces an owner-signed Workbench and Data Center with four-store evidence reuse to ensure models operate within user-defined rules and signed evidence, preventing…
A new paper warns that artificial superintelligence (ASI) could arrive as early as 2029-2033, posing five existential challenges: technical alignment, power concentration, international governance, social health, and eth…
Google delays the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model from June to July 2025, citing feedback from early testers and tuning for agentic tasks. The delay coincides with the departure of key researchers Noam Shazeer to O…
Tom MacWright argues that AI-generated resumes, portfolios, and outreach emails strip away the human connection and personal character that hiring managers and collaborators rely on. Drawing on 12 years of reviewing job …
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known distillation attack on its Claude AI models, using 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 28.8 million interactions between April 22 and June 5, 2…
A new survey from Milltown Partners reveals that only 8% of Americans who oppose data centers live near one, indicating nationwide AI backlash is driving opposition. In Q1 2026, public protests delayed or blocked 75 data…
Hong Kong can position itself as a regulatory bridge between US and Chinese AI ecosystems amid escalating decoupling, as US export controls on AI models backfire by accelerating Chinese innovation and creating a 'soverei…
A blogger criticizes the reflexive accusation of 'AI-generated' on platforms like Hacker News, arguing it harms genuine writers, especially non-native speakers who use AI tools for proofreading. The author contends such …
Google is rolling out a feature in Chrome 149 that lets its Gemini AI see and select content from users' browser screens, framing it as a convenience upgrade. The company also announced that developers can now access com…
UK government research found that medical AI products require continuous monitoring by expert watchdogs rather than one-off approval, according to two reports from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that artificial intelligence will accelerate cyberattacks within months, urging governments and businesses to prepare for threats that exceed current expectations. The joint sta…
AI surveillance systems in U.S. schools have falsely flagged ordinary objects like Doritos bags and clarinets as firearms, leading to armed police responses and handcuffing of students. The incidents highlight the rapid,…
Halyard, an open-source AI work ledger for developers, launched in alpha to track time, tokens, cost, and invoices across AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The tool captures session metadata as plain text on the user…