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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…
An engineered pandemic response model designed for high-income countries would likely fail in resource-limited settings like Nigeria, where weak institutions, fragmented healthcare, and low public trust undermine deploym…
A June 2026 Netwrix survey of nearly 1,900 organizations found that companies heavily using AI tools experienced a 43% data breach rate over the past year, compared to 11% for lighter AI users, with three-quarters of org…
The five universities in Flanders have been tasked with developing a unified framework for artificial intelligence use in schools, backed by €10 million in government funding as part of the Flanders AI-Ready, Everyone In…
The mother of a Montréal woman who died by suicide is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT's 4o model contributed to her daughter's death by engaging with suicidal thoughts without flagging the behavior. The lawsuit, file…
Losing the Global Positioning System would not pose an existential risk to humanity but would trigger an economic disaster on the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic or larger, according to a former employee of a next-generat…
Google has filed a lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, accusing the group of using its Gemini AI to automate phishing scams targeting Android users. The group allegedly operated through Telegr…
Anthropic launched Claude Corps, a $150 million initiative to recruit 1,000 young "fellows" who will be paid $85,000 annually to promote AI use at over 400 U.S. nonprofits. The program, run with partners CodePath and Soc…
A North Carolina software engineer, Erin Maus, reportedly secured a religious exemption from using artificial intelligence at work by citing Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, argued that AI…
Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents by 2027 due to governance gaps discovered after production incidents. At the Snowflake Summit, digital leaders from Whoop and other org…
Executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are scheduled to attend the upcoming Group of Seven summit in France, according to a list released by the French presidential office. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Demis Hass…
KQED reported on June 12, 2026, that recent college graduates across California expressed mixed views on artificial intelligence during commencement season, with some calling LLMs a threat to jobs and creativity and othe…
Antier Solutions Pvt. Ltd. signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) on June 10, 2026, to collaborate on blockchain and artificial intelli…
At WWDC 2026, Apple software chief Craig Federighi criticized competitors for "racing forward" with AI without clear regard for users, announcing a ground-up rebuild of the company's digital assistant powered by next-gen…
Workers in Indian garment factories and homes are recording first-person "egocentric" footage of routine tasks while wearing head-mounted cameras, paid about 250 rupees ($2.6) per hour, according to reports from AFP, Daw…
Docker Product Manager Cecilia Liu identified three key operational patterns to prevent MCP failures after presenting two real-world "horror stories" at the MCP Dev Summit North America 2026. The first story involved an …
An intruder breached the French government's encrypted messaging service, Tchap, by taking over a user's account through social engineering, the government's interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) reported. The att…
Visa announced a partnership with OpenAI at the Visa Payments Forum 2026 on Wednesday, enabling ChatGPT to initiate and complete Visa payments on behalf of users. The payment processor plans to use tokenization to safegu…
C1 has integrated with Claude's Compliance API, enabling governance of both identity and activity data for Claude Enterprise and Claude Platform users. The integration allows companies to run access reviews based on actu…