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Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' warns that artificial intelligence and new technologies pose a choice between building a just, humane world or creating new forms of injustice and dehumanization. T…
China's State Council issued a five-year employment plan on June 17 that prioritizes tracking artificial intelligence's impact on jobs, ordering research into a monitoring system and early-warning mechanism to flag AI-re…
The Senate Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment from Sen. Mark Kelly requiring 'ultimate human responsibility' in AI-powered kill chains, as autonomous weapons systems proliferate in conflicts like the U.S.-Iran…
A MAGA-friendly advocacy group, Innovation Council Action, announced a $100m push to promote Trump's AI agenda but has shown no spending or activity months later, with a related PAC defunct and a dissolution filing quick…
A low-skilled attacker used Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex AI agents to breach 14 companies, according to OALABS researchers who analyzed over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server. The attacker bypa…
A joint report from Genpact and HFS Research finds the world's top 2,000 public companies hold nearly $18 trillion in untapped AI value, blocked by what the study calls 'enterprise debt'—a mix of outdated technology, poo…
Top AI executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, attended a G7 working lunch in Evian on June 17 focused on safe AI deployment. The meeting followed …
SpaceX shares fell below $200 on Wednesday, dropping to the high $180s after peaking at $222 on Tuesday following its IPO. The decline reignites concerns about overvaluation, as the company burns billions annually and fa…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted at the VivaTech conference in Paris that artificial intelligence will create labor shortages rather than replace humans, arguing that AI will lower barriers to human productivity. Bezo…
The European Commission announced the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a plan to reduce the EU's reliance on foreign tech in semiconductors, AI, cloud, and open source. The package includes Chips Act 2.0, the …
Mastercard's former chief marketing officer Raja Rajamannar says AI is creating a 'sea of sameness' in marketing but argues this will usher in a 'golden era' where original creativity and consumer insight become more val…
Google's AMIE diagnostic AI system matched or outperformed primary care physicians on 30 of 32 metrics in a randomized study published in Nature, with patient-actors rating it superior on 25 of 26 measures. A separate pa…
More than 16,000 people, including SAG-AFTRA members and the general public, have signed an open letter demanding Congress pass the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill that would create a federal intellectual property right …
Warner Music Group acquired startup Sureel, which partners with Swedish copyright agency STIM to track AI training data usage and pay musicians. SoundVerse advocates for ongoing artist royalties from AI outputs. These in…
EarnOS, the company behind the ero mobile app, raised $6 million in a Pre-Series A round led by 1kx, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Circle Ventures, to combat AI-generated internet traffic. The funding inc…
Forbes reports that as few as 130 of thousands of AI agent offerings are genuinely autonomous, with many engaging in 'agent washing.' Documented incidents include agents making unauthorized changes to production database…
A developer explores when it is acceptable to forward AI-generated output to another human reader, while another engineer outlines three methods for AI coding at home without enterprise-level spending. Daniel Stenberg ad…
OpenAI backers spent $7.6 million to defeat New York Assemblyman Alex Bores in a congressional primary, while Anthropic-funded groups spent over $10 million to support him, turning the race into a proxy battle over AI re…
Anthropic's Fable model remains offline after two days of meetings in Washington, with prediction markets showing a 55% chance of restoration by July 1. Security expert Katie Moussouris confirmed there was no jailbreak—t…
A WordPress VIP survey found 60% of US consumers say brands using 'AI' in messaging is a turnoff, while enterprise teams spend 16.6 hours weekly chasing AI search visibility. Multiple studies show consumer trust in AI ha…