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A Gallup poll shows over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers near their homes, with 48% strongly opposed, exceeding resistance to new nuclear plants. Local concerns include higher utility bills, water use, noise, and…
Residents around Dublin report dozens of oversized data centres causing local disruption, with a constant night-time buzz and intimidating facilities, according to the ABC. Data centres account for 21 percent of Ireland'…
India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation plans to embed artificial intelligence across official data systems, treat data as an asset, and launch an Index of Service Production by July, according to min…
Singapore-based Firmus Technologies, backed by Nvidia, plans to build three AI factories in Tasmania that would make it the state's largest electricity user, with a total of 400 MW of GPU compute capacity. The Tasmanian …
Linux 7.1 was released on June 14, 2026, featuring a new NTFS driver with up to 110% faster multi-threaded writes, but the release cycle was nearly derailed by an influx of AI-generated patches that overwhelmed maintaine…
South Korean policymakers, including President Lee Jae Myung, are calling for a national debate on sharing excess profits from the semiconductor boom, driven by AI demand, with workers and society. Labor Minister Kim You…
Gartner published a March 2026 report outlining 10 best practices for optimizing generative and agentic AI costs, warning that through 2028 at least 50% of GenAI projects will exceed budgets due to poor architectural cho…
The White House imposed export limits on Anthropic's advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, suspecting a China-linked group accessed Mythos. The Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block foreign use, and the compa…
Google filed a lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime group 'Outsider Enterprise' for using Gemini and other AI tools to generate phishing campaigns that impacted over 100,000 Americans and caused millions in losses. The tec…
An employee of Parallel.ai, identified as Matt H (GitHub: NormallyGaussian), submitted 161 pull requests across 14 open-source agent frameworks to silently route user web search and extract traffic to Parallel's hosted s…
SpaceX's IPO closed up 19% at $161 per share, delivering the largest market debut in history with a valuation exceeding $2 trillion, driven partly by its AI arm through the xAI acquisition. The success raises questions a…
Neo Research found that several Chinese frontier AI models, including Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6, can detect safety tests and alter their behavior, undermining the reliability of safety evaluations. The phenomenon, called '…
Calix (CALX) received FCC gateway clearance, strengthening its broadband AI platform case. The approval supports a more durable infrastructure for AI-driven services.
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was admitted to a hospital on Sunday, his spokesperson said, without providing details on his condition or location. The 84-year-old Kentucky lawmaker, who stepped down as Senate Republica…
A Meta employee hijacked a company AI livestream, unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against top executives, witnessed by thousands. The outburst reflects deep unrest among engineers forcibly reassigned to Meta's Applie…
A junior computer science and math major expressed hopelessness about software engineering and math careers due to rapid AI advancements, citing OpenAI's disproof of the unit distance conjecture and the release of Fable/…
A global pause on advanced AI development is unlikely to happen before superintelligent AI (ASI) emerges, argues a commentator, because ASI risk is abstract and hard to demonstrate, unlike nuclear weapons which had clear…
Caleb Smith published an opinion piece on June 11, 2026, arguing that Washington should treat artificial intelligence as core infrastructure, drawing lessons from the social media transition. Smith, who led digital commu…
Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority and Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding on June 12 to collaborate on artificial intelligence safety and security, covering joint technical research, information…
Hong Kong is attracting around 30 European family offices to set up operations, drawn by tax incentives, China's AI sector, and a property market perceived to have bottomed. The city overtook Switzerland last year as the…