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India's Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran told ANI that AI-related stock valuations are "definitely a bubble," attributing the hype to companies promising a productivity bonanza. He cautioned that the full impa…
Professor Margaret Hu of William & Mary Law School argues for a separation of AI and state, drawing parallels between medieval church coinage and modern AI tokens. She warns that AI labs, like the medieval church, contro…
Anthropic abruptly halted access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the US government issued an export control directive citing national security concerns. The order, which applies to any foreign national, forced A…
Anthropic disabled access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide on June 12, 2026, to comply with a US government export-control directive targeting foreign national access, citing national security concerns…
Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan released a 269-page bipartisan discussion draft of the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026 on June 4, proposing a three-year preemption of state AI laws. The bill aims t…
ZhipuAI released GLM 5.2, a fully open-source 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with MIT-licensed weights, on June 13, 2026—the same day the US government restricted Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 under a new 'Mythos-c…
AI data center energy costs in Europe range from €44M to €170M+ annually for a 100 MW campus, driven by AI rack density increases, grid infrastructure limitations, and EU efficiency regulations. Operators are combining p…
A North Korea-linked phishing email led to a $36 million theft from Humanity Protocol, with tokens tied to decentralized AI projects Venice and Morpheus rising after the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to restrict fore…
Xavier Becerra, a Democrat and former state attorney general, surged from single digits to win California's governor's race primary, facing Republican Steve Hilton. Tom Steyer, a San Francisco billionaire, spent a record…
California's new laws removing parking requirements for apartment buildings are facing pushback as early projects like The Fay in San Jose struggle to attract tenants or cause parking shortages on surrounding streets, ac…
A website administrator deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work system, to block AI companies from aggressively scraping the site, which was causing downtime. The system imposes computational costs on mass scrapers while minima…
Satya argues that in an AI-driven economy, companies must own their learning loops by compounding human capital with token capital, rather than merely consuming frontier models. This requires trusted engineering systems …
Voters in California's 14th Congressional District head to the polls Tuesday in a special election to temporarily replace former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations. The race features 11 c…
The IETF and other standards bodies are accelerating efforts to establish agent identity standards, addressing challenges like static authorization grants for dynamic needs. Anthropic supports Workload Identity Federatio…
Kevin Bryan criticizes the politicization of science policy, arguing that cutting DEI-driven programs harms fundamental research and that culture war tactics will damage American institutions when future administrations …
A Contra Costa County Civil Grand Jury report warns that Pinole's long-term structural budget deficits, unfunded pension liabilities, and infrastructure costs pose serious risks to its fiscal stability. The city faces $8…
Cisco announced Live Protect, a runtime security system for Nexus switches that deploys kernel-level shields against CVEs without reboots or maintenance windows, and a twice-monthly advisory schedule starting July 2026, …
Amazon and Meta have made AI proficiency a mandatory component of employee performance reviews, with Amazon's Clarity system tracking developer AI tool usage against an 80% weekly target and Meta integrating 'AI-driven i…
A UK police officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using artificial intelligence to generate child abuse images. The officer, whose identity has not been disclosed, faces potential charges related to the c…
On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals, cutting off international customers. A new white paper proposes Home Opus, a program to license prev…