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Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal launched a formal investigation on December 16, 2025, into whether AI data centers are driving up residential electricity costs. The probe targets Googl…
As digital lives expand, the fate of online accounts, data, and assets after death remains legally fragmented. France leads with clear post-mortem data protection laws, while Germany lacks harmonized rules. Experts urge …
Author Cory Doctorow argues that generative AI should be viewed as a vernacular tool for amateur creators, not a replacement for professional work. Drawing on his own history as a programmer and digital rights activist, …
Dozens of cybersecurity veterans, including former Facebook chief of security Alex Stamos and Bugcrowd founder Casey Ellis, published an open letter protesting the U.S. government's export control order on Anthropic's Fa…
Europe's demand that Apple open its Siri AI to third-party apps risks user data exposure, according to a Jamf survey showing one-in-five IT leaders have faced AI-related security incidents. Apple refuses to distribute Si…
AI-driven job cuts disproportionately target young tech workers aged 22-25, whose employment in high-exposure roles dropped 6-11% since late 2022, while older workers saw gains of 6-13%. Meanwhile, 75% of unemployed Amer…
OpenAI launched the People-First AI Fund on July 18, 2025, committing $50 million in unrestricted grants to US nonprofits using AI for education, healthcare, economic empowerment, and community organizing. By December 20…
Google is developing personalization controls for its Gemini assistant, including features that prioritize paid subscription data and allow users to manually manage context from connected apps. The changes aim to make Ge…
Anthropic disabled access to its Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models worldwide after the Trump administration ordered the company to bar foreign nationals from using them, citing national security concerns and a po…
The OpenAI Foundation announced a $50 million commitment in 2026 for the People-First AI Fund to support nonprofits using AI to advance their missions. Applications are open until July 15, 2026, with expanded eligibility…
A developer on Hacker News expresses unease about using AI coding tools, feeling a loss of control and confidence as LLMs generate code faster than they can review it, despite maintaining architectural oversight. The pos…
Personality clashes between Anthropic and the White House led to the shutdown of Anthropic's Claude models, including the Fable and Mythos variants. The dispute centers on jailbreak resistance and the administration's de…
A federal judge ruled that Meta must face a copyright lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, which owns adult sites like Blacked.com, for allegedly scraping and torrenting thousands of its porn videos to train AI models. The ju…
Meta's new Applied AI team, created to support its Superintelligence Labs, is suffering from record-low morale amid layoffs, surveillance initiatives, and soul-crushing busywork, with employees describing the environment…
Elon Musk's net worth has crossed the trillion-dollar threshold, sparking debate about the meaning and implications of such extreme wealth. Critics argue that wealth equals power, but the author contends that this power …
Berkeley RDI and over 300 industry experts launched Agents' Last Exam (ALE), an open benchmark that evaluates AI agents on economically valuable professional tasks rather than abstract proxies. The benchmark currently co…
Daniel Cormier's X account posted fake screenshots of Eric Trump asking if UFC fights are rigged, which Eric Trump denied as AI-generated. Cormier later deleted the post and said his account was hacked, calling the image…
Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding transparency on private equity acquisitions of utility companies, warning that AI data center electricity demand could burden consumers. She flagged specific deals by Blackstone and …
Jordan Fulghum built a private ChatGPT for his family using a ZimaBoard 2 with an external RTX 5060 Ti GPU, running Open WebUI and a local LLM. The system grounds answers in a family vault of documents, offering privacy …
Harvard Business Review reports that frontier AI models have been trained on creators' digital output without permission, sparking economic disputes. The article proposes a market mechanism for future data access compens…