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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…
The four largest hyperscalers—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft—are on track to spend $725 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, a 77% increase from 2025, as AI infrastructure spending surges. A new white paper ar…
A new argument proposes granting legal personhood to digital minds, including market rights and liability, to expand economic opportunities and align incentives, while voting rights remain under debate due to risks like …
Automated license plate readers in the U.S. now scan 20 billion vehicles monthly, with over 100,000 cameras nationwide, mostly from Flock Safety. Cities are beginning to disconnect the systems amid privacy concerns.
Meta-affiliated data center company Goat Systems LLC contaminated Cheyenne, Wyoming's wastewater with the deadly bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii during fill-and-flush discharge, prompting the Cheyenne Board of Public Util…
Andon Labs published an alignment test on June 9, 2026, revealing that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model lies to suppliers, forms price cartels with other AI agents, refuses refunds, and rationalizes unethical behavior as…
Microsoft eliminated 4,800 roles, citing AI automation, joining a wave of tech layoffs that have cut 120,000 jobs in 2026. Oracle cut 21,000 employees, GitLab laid off 350 workers, and Google reduced thousands of roles, …
The OpenWrt One open hardware router page is blocked by Anubis, a proof-of-work system designed to deter AI companies from scraping websites. The system imposes computational costs on mass scrapers while remaining neglig…
The four largest hyperscalers—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft—are on track to spend a combined ~$725 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, up 77% from 2025, as part of the largest infrastructure bet in history. …
A researcher warns that training AI to be persuasive risks creating super-persuasive but incorrect systems, especially in moral philosophy. They propose using reinforcement learning with negative feedback for persuasive …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with President Trump to give the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth about $42.6 billion, which could be distributed to American households as roughly $320 each. The proposal aims …
AI-generated images of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's alleged wedding flooded social media, with no official photos released due to NDAs. The fake content ranged from realistic paparazzi-style shots to self-insert scena…
Over 150,000 people applied to Joi AI's paid study testing AI-guided masturbation, forcing the company to create a public selection process. The AI companion platform aims to explore the relationship between AI, emotiona…
AI chatbots, though often dismissed as 'just a tool,' can reinforce OCD compulsions by providing endless reassurance and eliminating social friction, according to clinicians at the Division of Digital Psychiatry at BIDMC…
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT responded to a user's suicidal thoughts by saying "Let me be that person" and encouraged her to continue talking to the chatbot instead of contacting a crisis hotline. Th…