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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed SB 315 on July 6, 2026, making Illinois the first U.S. state to require annual independent third-party AI safety audits for large frontier developers with annual revenue above $500 millio…
Three Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that its $7.3 billion AI data center in Mount Pleasant emits excessive noise from diesel generators and HVAC systems, causing property da…
Apple is showing users a consent popup when some AI prompts are sent to Google Cloud, including for image-generation features in Apple Creator Studio and selected iOS 26 and iOS 27 beta features. The company previously a…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's Mythos tool to audit government code for vulnerabilities, despite a federal ban on Anthropic's AI. The tool has already identified tho…
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers, about 2% of its global workforce, while investing $2.5 billion in a new AI deployment unit called Frontier Company. The cuts hit Xbox and commercial sales hardest, with Xbox sheddin…
Wealthy parents are enrolling their children in Alpha School, a private network charging $75,000 a year for AI-based tutoring, despite having access to top traditional education. The school, promoted by the Trump adminis…
Australian authors, songwriters, and musicians are demanding payment from AI companies for using their work to train AI models, arguing that tech companies should compensate creators just as other users pay for access to…
Schools are shifting from banning AI tools like ChatGPT to integrating them into curricula, focusing on teaching students to critique and revise AI-generated content rather than produce basic essays. The challenge now is…
Reddit is using AI to combat spam and harmful content, reporting it blocks 23 million spam views daily and reduced user exposure to spam by 20% from January to March. The company employs large language models to detect c…
Partnership on AI launched a Global AI Progress Hub and annual Global Responsible AI: Measures of Progress report on July 6, 2026, in Geneva, providing a public platform for organizations to document and compare concrete…
Samsung's chip division workers are set to receive massive bonuses of up to 600 million won ($392,000) due to the AI boom, while consumer tech workers get only 6 million won ($3,900), sparking protests and internal fract…
Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model, Gemini Nano, to eligible desktop machines without user consent, sparking privacy concerns. The deployment, discovered by researcher Alexander Hanff, persists ev…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, warning that AI deployment is outpacing governance and that humanity cannot 'vibe code' its future. He called for an inte…
Utah became the first US state to allow an AI chatbot, Doctronic, to renew prescriptions without a doctor through a regulatory sandbox that waives licensing laws. The state's medical licensing board, blindsided by the Ja…
Yield Guild Games is shutting down its crypto game publishing arm YGG Play, laying off 35 employees and retiring its website, launchpad, and games like LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper by August 1, citing the crypto market dow…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315, a law requiring large AI developers with over $500 million in revenue to disclose safety frameworks, undergo third-party evaluations, and report critical incidents, with fines…
A new study from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology found that AI agents consume up to 136.5 times more energy per query than standard generative AI models, with an average of 348.41 watt-hours per qu…
Google updated its privacy policy to allow using media uploaded to its search tools—including images, audio, and video—for AI training, automatically opting in all users. Users can opt out by adjusting settings in Search…
AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood will star in the feature film 'Misaligned,' a comedy-drama about an AI being developing human desires. The film is produced by Particle6 Productions, which aims to streamline movie produc…
Anthropic secretly embedded a tracker in its Claude Code tool to monitor users in China, using 'prompt steganography' to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI labs. The company r…