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Lawmakers are increasing investments in technology, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency while simultaneously preparing new regulatory frameworks for these industries. The dual approach signals a push to both capi…
A $500,000 sci-fi thriller starring entirely AI-generated actors, "Hell Grind," premiered in New York this week, marking the highest-profile film made with fully synthetic visuals. The 95-minute movie, produced by startu…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will pause new applications for the state's Data Center Investment Program starting July 1, 2026, halting a program that has granted nearly $1 billion in tax incentives. The executive action…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence, which warns that AI dehumanizes society, could prompt more workers to seek religious exemptions from using the technology at their jobs. One software engineer in Nort…
California's In-Home Supportive Services program, which provides Medi-Cal-funded caregivers to roughly 900,000 disabled and older adults, faces dual threats from the Trump administration's planned deferral of $1.34 billi…
President Donald Trump made baseless claims of election fraud in California's primary, targeting Democratic voters with false allegations of cheating. Republican candidate Steve Hilton, who currently leads the race, has …
SpaceX and OpenAI are pursuing public listings at valuations approaching $1 trillion despite projecting massive losses, with OpenAI alone expecting $14 billion in losses for 2026 and profitability not anticipated until 2…
Chinese labs previously involved in selling fentanyl precursors have shifted to manufacturing and selling peptides, a gray market now valued at over $100 million annually and growing, according to a new Chainalysis analy…
Rob Arnott, founder of Research Affiliates, warned that upcoming IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could create a prolonged drag on equity markets by diverting tens of billions of dollars from existing stocks over …
Large technology companies' heavy spending on artificial intelligence development and compute hubs is contributing to price pressures on U.S. consumers, according to a Washington Post report. Federal Reserve officials an…
President Donald Trump said he will meet with AI companies next week to discuss a "partnership" plan that would give American citizens an equity stake in the industry, endorsing a concept first pitched by OpenAI CEO Sam …
Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, proposed a structured, temporary pause on frontier AI development across the global industry on June 4, warning that AI systems are approaching the ability to recursively …
A new paper titled "The AI Layoff Trap" by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas argues that universal basic income cannot solve the problem of AI-driven mass layoffs, instead proposing a Pigouvian tax on automation as…
OpenAI has offered nine major UK banks access to its cyber security AI tool GPT-5.5 Cyber after rival Anthropic blocked them from previews of its competing tool, Claude Mythos. The UK banks, including Lloyds Banking Grou…
Five workers from diverse backgrounds — including a former attorney, a structural engineer, and a data professional — successfully pivoted into artificial intelligence roles at companies like Microsoft, HubSpot, and Stac…
A new cryptocurrency project called Pearl is marketing itself as a "useful" proof-of-work AI mining network, but evidence suggests it is actually running standard PoW computations disguised as AI inference. Miners on the…
Teradata CEO Steve McMillan told 5,100 employees in January that the company would forgo annual salary raises in 2026 to reallocate budget toward AI investments, while TTEC informed 15,000 U.S.-based workers in April it …
Anthropic argues that a temporary pause in frontier AI development is necessary for safety, but claims a unilateral halt by one lab would be ineffective because less cautious competitors would simply take the lead. Howev…
The open source movement faces a growing backlash as projects erect barriers against AI-assisted contributions, threatening the founding vision of universal access to software modification. Critics argue that restriction…
OpenAI and the Trump administration are negotiating a direct government stake in the AI startup, proposing a "Public Wealth Fund" that would distribute payouts to American citizens. Senator Bernie Sanders has separately …