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Comedian Nate Bargatze faces backlash after being photographed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump allies at Donald Trump's UFC birthday event at the White House, leading fans to believe he is a Trump supporter an…
A new study with 2,691 participants found that people frequently use AI for simple tasks even when it provides no meaningful time or effort savings, and they systematically underestimate their own AI usage while overesti…
Trump administration officials met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on April 17, 2026, to discuss a potential truce after the Pentagon labeled the AI safety company a 'supply chain risk' and restricted federal use of its …
Confluent Cloud introduces stateful stream processing to help enterprises build compliant AI agents under the EU AI Act, which mandates automatic lifetime event logging for high-risk AI systems. The approach uses Apache …
Anthropic is in talks with the Trump administration to reverse restrictions on its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, imposed on national security grounds. The company argues the models' safeguards remain effective…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth admitted the company's rollout of a new AI division was 'atrocious,' citing poor communication and career growth concerns among 6,500 engineers. The internal unrest follows widespread dissatisfac…
Anthropic faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging false advertising over usage limits for its Claude Max subscription plans. The suit claims the Max 20x plan delivers only six to eight times the usage of Pro inste…
Ivanka Trump and Kai Trump avoided sharing photos with UFC fighter Josh Hokit after he insulted Michelle Obama during a White House event, instead posting images with other fighters. Hokit faced backlash for calling the …
A satirical LinkedIn post platform called ThoughtLeadin has launched, parodying the corporate jargon and AI buzzwords common on professional social networks. The site features posts that mock LinkedIn culture with over-t…
A federal judge permanently dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that xAI failed to show OpenAI induced a former engineer to divulge confidential information. The decision marks Elon Musk's second …
AI hiring systems that autonomously reject candidates are indefensible because they learn from a flawed label—'good hire'—which is measured late, confounded, and survivorship-biased, causing models to imitate past gateke…
The US government directed Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a national-security risk from a potential jailbreak that could identify software vulnerabilities. Anth…
A Mass General Brigham study of 675 college students found that 18% used generative AI for mental health support, with those experiencing moderate to severe depression, severe anxiety, or suicidality being twice as likel…
The U.S. government shut down Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, just five days after its release, marking the most dramatic AI shutdown in history due to technical and political concerns.
Google's reCAPTCHA now offers hand gesture verification, collecting hand landmark data from videos that are deleted after verification and never associated with user identity. The feature requires camera permission and p…
Anthropic senior technical staff will meet with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, which has spiraled into a full-blo…
A German court in Munich ruled that Google can be held directly liable for incorrect answers generated by its AI overview feature, rejecting the company's argument that it should receive the same legal treatment as conve…
The Cheapskate's Guide has blocked all internet traffic due to aggressive web scraping by AI companies, but offers a human-only access method. The site provides advice on buying inexpensive computers amid historically hi…
Reddit hit an all-time high in LLM-referred traffic in May 2026, with ChatGPT driving 87.4% of AI-referred visits and Reddit commanding a 40.1% share of LLM citations. The surge is fueled by licensing deals with Google a…
The UK announced a ban on social media for children under 16, set to take effect in spring 2027, following Australia's lead. Australia's six-month-old ban has seen 70% of under-16s still accessing platforms, raising enfo…