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Fraud cases in the UK surged to 4.1 million in 2025, with losses of nearly £1.3bn, as criminals increasingly use AI to manipulate victims, including marrying romance scam targets. UK Finance calls for stronger tech platf…
South Korea's AI ambitions face a growing electricity bottleneck as data center power demands surge, with experts warning that grid capacity—not GPU availability—is now the primary constraint. The government has announce…
More than 300 games were released on Steam last week, with 120 of them including AI disclosures, reflecting the growing use of AI in game development.
Argentina's President Javier Milei proposed legislation allowing AI-run corporations without human directors or shareholders, aiming to attract tech investment with low taxes and minimal regulation. Critics like historia…
The Bloomberg US Leveraged Loan Index fell 1.34% in February 2026, its worst monthly decline since 2022, driven by a collapse in software loans amid AI fears. Over $17.7 billion in software debt turned distressed in four…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned against the overuse of frontier AI models for non-critical tasks, coining the term 'token-maxing' to describe the wasteful practice. Speaking on the New York Times Hard Fork podcast, he…
A mother and her 12-year-old daughter died by suicide within hours of each other in Hong Kong after an argument about education problems, prompting calls for reflection on an exam-driven system described as a 'zero-sum' …
The US proposed the Baruch Plan in 1946 to place atomic energy under international control, but the USSR vetoed it, fearing loss of nuclear development. The plan's failure led to a nuclear arms race, highlighting challen…
Meta rolled out its proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April after spending $14.3 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, but the company has repeatedly delayed the public API launch, fueling inte…
A new study from FusionAuth reveals that 65% of organizations suffered an AI identity breach in the past year, with those most confident in their security being breached at the highest rate (84%). The report warns that c…
The U.S. government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its top-tier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals over national-security concerns. In response, a Times of…
GitHub now allows pull requests created by github-actions[bot] to trigger CI/CD workflows, but only after a maintainer with write access explicitly approves the PR. The change, effective June 11, fixes a bug that previou…
MimicScribe offers an AI notetaker that runs audio processing locally on a Mac, allowing users to choose which cloud provider handles text features, aligning with company data policies that restrict unvetted third-party …
AI subscriptions priced at $20/month are heavily subsidized by venture capital and are not sustainable, with enterprise pricing already reaching $30-$100+ per user. As AI companies face IPO pressure and investor demands …
Government-imposed AI model bans are becoming more common, with countries like Italy, Australia, and South Korea restricting access to models such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek. To avoid workflow disruptions, organizations mus…
The exponential growth of AI compute demand is creating an insurmountable need for continuous, high-density baseload power that intermittent renewables cannot provide, making nuclear energy the only viable solution. Data…
The US government shut down Anthropic's Fable AI, sparking calls for open-source alternatives. Satya Nadella argued that AI ecosystem moats must be based on human expertise, not models. Salesforce acquired Fin for $3.6 b…
The US government issued an export-control order disabling Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after a jailbreak, while New York's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI over advertising and data practices. These actions…
The US government ordered Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally on June 12, 2026, just three days after their launch, due to national security concerns over Mythos 5's exceptional vulnerability…
Anil Dash argues for a shift from Big AI to many small, responsible AI tools created by and for communities, citing widespread cultural pushback and ethical concerns about major AI platforms. He suggests that alternative…