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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bipartisan budget that freezes new data center tax breaks for three years, pausing a program that costs the state $38 million annually. The moratorium aims to address fairness concer…
More than 1,000 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, according to the United Nations, as the country's civil war sees a sharp increase in drone warfare. UN High Commissio…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were pulled globally three days after launch due to a US export control directive, disrupting enterprise users. Kilo AI highlights alternative models like OpenAI's GPT-5.5, which o…
Anthropic refused U.S. government demands to restrict its Fable 5 AI model over alleged national security risks, leading to export controls and the model's retirement. The standoff escalated after Amazon reported a jailb…
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…
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…
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…
Google's John Mueller argued that llms.txt files cannot help large language models differentiate between websites for discovery, as the files are self-reported and inherently untrustworthy. Mueller suggested llms.txt may…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard API for LLMs, but security vulnerabilities like path traversal and broken tenant isolation are emerging. To prevent damage from autonomous agents, developers shou…
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…
Five years after the Oakland Unified School District pledged reparations for Black students, much of the promise remains unfulfilled. The original Black Thriving Task Force stopped meeting after a year due to internal co…
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…
Google is establishing a task force with Andhra Pradesh to explore AI and technology collaborations, aiming to drive regional AI deployments through a public-private partnership.
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…
An ICE agent in Stafford Township, New Jersey, was struck by a van driven by a fleeing suspect and opened fire on the vehicle, striking it several times. The agent is expected to recover, and Route 72 is closed as author…