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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with U.S. International Development Finance Corporation CEO Ben Black in Astana to discuss cooperation in critical minerals, artificial intelligence, and other sectors. The talk…
Employees are quietly withdrawing their judgment and sense of worth in response to AI adoption, a phenomenon called 'self-replacement' that threatens AI transformation programs more than outright resistance. Three trigge…
FreeFable.org, a lobby group, urged the Commerce Department to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, arguing they are not uniquely capable. However, four signatories—Gadi Evron, Rich Mogull, Ka…
Gen Z is embracing anti-AI tech trends, building DIY 'cyberdecks' from Raspberry Pi and spare parts that reject artificial intelligence. The movement follows a surge in retro iPod sales, with Back Market reporting a near…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, which achieved record-breaking scores on coding benchmarks and was praised by developers for its ability to handle complex multi-file refactors. The US government ordered the model shut…
US export restrictions on Anthropic's latest AI models have triggered a European scramble for AI sovereignty, exposing deep dependencies on American technology. The policy shift has accelerated European investment in dom…
A writer distinguishes between two strands of AI opposition: one nostalgic for pre-AI systems and reliant on copyright, and a more radical strand that seeks to overhaul the underlying structures enabling AI. The author a…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a ban on social media for under-16s, along with restrictions on livestreaming and stranger communication tools, citing child safety. The government also plans to ban AI romantic c…
Russia's security services temporarily disconnected parts of a surveillance system protecting President Vladimir Putin after the US-Israeli killing of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid fears that AI-pro…
French President Emmanuel Macron is promoting France as an AI hub by linking data center growth to the country's low-carbon nuclear power capacity. He persuaded SoftBank Group to consider up to €75 billion in French inve…
India faces a labor challenge from artificial intelligence that risks compressing middle-class aspirations, according to a LiveMint report. The National Education Policy 2020 targets raising higher education gross enrolm…
The Trump administration blocked foreign access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models due to a jailbreak vulnerability, prompting Anthropic to disable the models globally. The move triggered a rally in decentrali…
Animoca Brands cofounder Yat Siu argues that Asia will lead the fusion of AI and blockchain technology, citing less ideological resistance than in the West. He believes blockchain is essential for enabling AI agents to t…
Tech companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers at a record pace, citing AI as the primary reason, but critics including Marc Andreessen argue AI is a convenient excuse for pandemic-era overhiring. Meanwhile, …
Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of understanding with Nvidia and Freedom Holding Corp. on November 7 to build a $2 billion Sovereign AI Hub, part of broader AI agreements that could attract up to $10 billion in investment…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical and President Trump's executive order both address AI safety, but the AI industry's reliance on probabilistic safety is insufficient, according to a new deterministic safety architecture called …
AI bias compounds as models become more intelligent and autonomous, scaling historical inequities from training data, RLHF alignment, and cultural gaps into high-stakes decisions like loan approvals and resume screening,…
Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to Denmark's GDP, according to Interpol's 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment. AI deepfakes and fraud-as-a-service kits …
Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu urged India to build a comprehensive technology pyramid beyond AI, following US restrictions on Anthropic's models. Vembu argued that underlying capabilities are less expensive than large AI…
Shares of Chinese AI developer Zhipu surged up to 48% in Hong Kong trading after JPMorgan raised its target price to HK$1,400 and Bank of America initiated coverage with a buy rating, amid tightening U.S. restrictions on…