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A federal lawsuit filed Monday by Washington, D.C. customer Karl Kahn alleges Anthropic oversold usage allowances on its premium Claude Max 5x and Max 20x plans, which cost $100 and $200 per month respectively. The compl…
AI companies are offering to fund library digitization in exchange for training rights, prompting the University of Virginia to publish a 'Statement of Shared Practice' with six commitments to separate digitization from …
Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed a lawsuit in California state court alleging he was wrongfully fired in September 2025 for repeatedly raising safety concerns about the chatbot Grok. The complaint names xAI and parent…
The visual-effects team behind Peacock's Ted used AI-based face replacement to transform Seth MacFarlane into Bill Clinton for a Season 2 episode, after prosthetics and traditional CGI failed to achieve a convincing like…
Indonesian Minister of Population and Family Development Wihaji said mental resilience is key for youth to navigate rapid social and technological changes in the AI era, speaking at the 16th anniversary of the Generasi B…
Google announced a $1.5 billion expansion of its data center in Jackson County, Alabama, pledging to cover all energy and infrastructure costs to avoid increasing local electricity rates. The company plans to eventually …
Hundreds of Stanford students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Sunday to protest Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, organized by the Stanford chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine over Googl…
A Brazilian family blames an AI-powered hospital bed allocation system for the death of 32-year-old Rebeca Cardoso Tenente Molina, who died hours after finally being transferred to an ICU following a five-day wait. The f…
A U.S. judge dismissed a trade secret lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's xAI against OpenAI, ruling that xAI failed to show OpenAI misappropriated confidential information. The decision removes a legal threat to OpenAI's opera…
The US government ordered Anthropic to prevent foreign nationals from using its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak method. Anthropic complied by ab…
Boy George and manager Paul 'PK' Kemsley launched Artist Included, an artist-first music and technology company, on June 15, 2026, with a new AI-assisted recording of 'Karma Chameleon' in partnership with BMG. The track …
Nothing CEO Carl Pei warned that RAM now accounts for over 50% of a new phone's hardware cost, with memory prices quadrupling due to AI data centers consuming DRAM supply. Phone prices are rising $100 or more, and budget…
Cybersecurity experts argue that Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model does not pose a unique cybersecurity threat, contradicting the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on the model. Experts say the capabil…
Robert Smith, billionaire CEO of Vista Equity Partners, urged businesses adopting AI to preserve their intern programs, emphasizing the importance of bringing young people into the workforce to transfer knowledge and opt…
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University polled 2,122 Americans on AI and regulation, partnering with SurveyUSA to collect nationally representative data. They built a data explorer and visualizer to share results, incl…
A developer built a fully AI-generated social network called The Dead Internet Feed to prove that LinkedIn's feed is already indistinguishable from bot content. The site populates posts, comments, and debates using multi…
A study published in the Journal of Writing Research found that college students given permission to use AI in writing classes primarily used it for brainstorming and research, not for generating entire essays. Only 18.6…
Yahoo partnered with Google Cloud to build Seller Agent, an agentic digital media buying platform using Google Data Cloud graph technologies. The platform reduces multi-week manual campaign processes to seconds while mai…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to deactivate its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all users, citing national security risks after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reported that the models could be prompted to bypass c…
Meta is testing facial recognition software from Rank One Computing, a firm that sells surveillance tech to U.S. government and police, for its smart glasses. License documents show Meta is authorized to use Rank One's f…