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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…
OpenAI identified and disrupted a covert Chinese operation that used its ChatGPT tool to generate and spread anti-data center content on social media. The campaign, which the company said failed to gain any meaningful tr…
SpaceX is preparing for a June 12th IPO, raising questions about how an unprofitable company can justify going public, while CEO Elon Musk faces backlash for encouraging rioters in Belfast and posting racist content onli…
A growing number of Chinese university graduates are enrolling in short-term AI training bootcamps after struggling to break into the country's booming artificial intelligence industry. The programs, which teach practica…
Hazel (YC W24), an AI-enabled procurement platform for government agencies, is hiring a full stack engineer to deploy and scale its technology for a major U.S. government contract. The role, which requires U.S. citizensh…
A sweeping set of new California laws will take effect July 1, 2026, impacting food labeling, gun sales, robotaxi regulations, and school policies. The legislation requires restaurants with 20 or more locations to list m…