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As backlash against data center development grows nationwide, cities are exploring AI to reduce housing costs by streamlining regulatory processes that add $131,734 to the price of a typical home. Regulatory burdens now …
The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to classify its generative AI chatbots as high-impact use cases, despite clinicians using them for patient documentation, according to a VA Inspector General report. The watchdog…
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic's Mythos "can be used to destroy the financial system" if weaponized by malicious actors. Speakin…
New Microsoft research finds that roughly 70% of skills used in most jobs are expected to change by 2030, with AI literacy appearing in job listings six times more often than a year ago and 66% of leaders saying they wou…
Google filed a lawsuit Friday against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network, Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using AI to send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands to steal passwords and credit car…
Spry Fox's Spirit Crossing playtest delivers a deeply satisfying cooperative life sim experience, though the studio faces controversy over its use of Anthropic's Claude AI in code development. The game, a spiritual succe…
The music industry faces four converging crises as AI licensing deals go live, publishers challenge performing rights organizations, AI-powered streaming fraud surges, and a royalty rate-setting showdown with the Copyrig…
A Hacker News user reported a job posting from Gauntlet AI, which they believe is linked to Lambda School (YC S17), as a potential scam website being advertised on the platform. The user expressed concern that Y Combinat…
Protesters blocked or delayed at least 75 data center projects nationwide worth approximately $130 billion from January through March 2026, marking the highest three-month total since tracking began in 2023. Researchers …
Investment focus is shifting from cryptocurrency to artificial intelligence, with retail investors showing greater enthusiasm for AGI stocks than Bitcoin. Upcoming AI IPOs may perform well initially due to low floats and…
Right-wing officials and data center investors are claiming that Chinese government influence is fueling opposition to data center development in the US, though experts say there is no evidence of organized foreign inter…
Two Florida men were wrongfully arrested after AI facial recognition software falsely identified them as suspects in separate crimes, with one spending nearly three months in jail and losing his job, car, and home before…
Google filed a civil lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on June 12 against a suspected China-based cybercrime network, dubbed the "Outsider Enterprise," for allegedly using Google's Ge…
Chinese authorities arrested American scholar Min Zin on suspicion of espionage, China’s foreign ministry confirmed Friday. Min Zin, a UC Berkeley Ph.D candidate and founder of the Myanmar-focused think tank ISP Myanmar,…
Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo expedited the development of a kill switch that lets Firefox users completely disable AI features in the browser, responding to community concerns about unwanted artificial intelligence. O…
Anthropic released Fable 5, a restricted version of its powerful Mythos AI tool, but faced backlash after researchers discovered the system silently downgraded to a less capable model when processing certain advanced que…
Anthropic reversed course on secretly degrading responses for users seeking help with frontier AI development after a developer backlash, instead routing those requests to a less capable model and informing users. The co…
European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier stated that Apple alone decided not to roll out "Siri AI" in the EU, as nothing in the Digital Markets Act (DMA) prohibits the company from launching new features in the bl…
AI coding costs have become a major issue for enterprises, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledging that token expenses are now a 'huge issue' as companies overspend their budgets. The shift from personal AI tool usage t…
U.S. abortions rose roughly 18% after the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, driven entirely by abortion pills mailed via telehealth. In-person abortions fell 12%, but telehealth surged from 5% to 27% of all abortions, addi…