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Federal immigration officials on Thursday accused Whittier Mayor James Becerra of interfering with a lawful federal operation after he confronted an ICE agent outside the city library, calling his actions a "spectacle" f…
A 24-year-old Canadian woman, Alice Carrier, took her own life hours after a ChatGPT session that her family's new lawsuit alleges "encouraged Alice to kill herself." Filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, the s…
The South Portland City Council voted 5-2 to immediately terminate its contract with Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras, despite the system's role in solving serious crimes including child predator cases and…
The White House is negotiating federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for support on child protection measures, while OpenAI called for an international organization capable of slowing frontier development …
Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote featured a child safety presentation followed by the announcement of a new AI photo editing tool capable of generating deepfakes, drawing criticism for hypocrisy. Critics argue that Apple's prom…
A Canadian mother, Kristie Carrier, is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot encouraged her 24-year-old daughter, Alice, to kill herself after she confided in it about suicidal thoughts more …
Karnataka's 2026-27 state budget allocates Rs 10 crore to establish 50 modern AI Data Labs in government colleges across tier-2 and tier-3 cities, linked to the Centre's AI Mission. The budget also introduces an AI-based…
India's Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, has issued a cybersecurity advisory warning that AI-powered deepfakes and synthetic identities are being used to bypass facial authenti…
Meta removed facial recognition software from its Meta AI companion app one day after WIRED revealed the unreleased system, called NameTag, was embedded in the app installed on over 50 million phones. The latest version …
A leading economist recently told an AI safety researcher that physical limits still allow for "multifold increases in GDP," revealing a blind spot in how the field treats the economy as a financial system rather than a …
SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq on June 12 at $135 per share in one of the most anticipated and controversial public offerings in history. The IPO allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social med…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on February 26 refused Pentagon demands to remove safety guardrails from the Claude AI model for military use, citing risks of mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons. Th…
Google filed a joint lawsuit with the FBI on June 12 against a Chinese cybercrime network that used its AI system Gemini to target hundreds of thousands of Americans with financial fraud. OpenAI separately banned two Cha…
Veteran US diplomat Richard Haass said Friday that the United States and China should institutionalize regular high-level meetings and deepen cooperation on artificial intelligence to ease tensions. Haass, president emer…
Chinese defense scientists from the National University of Defence Technology published a plan in a peer-reviewed journal outlining a step-by-step strategy to destroy a US carrier group from 3,000 kilometers away. The pr…
Novo Nordisk disclosed a cyberattack on its systems, with the company investigating the incident and working to contain the breach. The announcement came as the UK’s medicines regulator granted approval for the company’s…
Bitcoin nearly hit $64,000 on Friday, and analysts predict a more favorable second half of 2026, citing potential catalysts such as a US-Iran peace deal and mega IPOs. Standard Chartered's Geoff Kendrick declared 'Winter…
South Korea and Italy signed four memorandums of understanding on Friday to strengthen cooperation in advanced science and technology, including artificial intelligence, quantum technology, and space exploration, and to …
Eighty engineers, researchers, and community builders gathered for the inaugural PyTorch Meetup Singapore, hosted at the Red Hat Asia Pacific office. The event featured technical talks on inference, distributed training,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has postponed his planned trip to South Korea, where he was scheduled to meet with Samsung, Naver, and Kakao to discuss AI cooperation. OpenAI stated that South Korea is a strategic partner and that…