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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan warned that despite voters appearing to pass the city's hotel tax measure with 66% support, San Jose still faces roughly $65 million in potential financial losses from card room regulation chang…
Suhana Sayyad, an MSc Cybersecurity student at TUS Athlone, built a free, open-source interactive tool that maps 30 EU AI Act obligations to their equivalents in NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001. The tool provides strength rati…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Inc. have finalized a $35 billion funding deal to support Anthropic’s expansion in AI infrastructure, including computing and data centers. The investment aims to strengthen U.S. s…
Healthcare workers, local leaders, and advocacy organizations staged a "die-in" protest Friday outside Valley Medical Center in San Jose, warning that federal funding cuts to Medicaid could force clinic closures and deny…
The June 5, 2026 episode of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, "Generous To A Default," covered Meta's global rollout of new content settings for teen accounts, a Krebs on Security report detailing attackers abusing Meta's AI …
Twitter/X accounts that post links to external news articles receive significantly less engagement than those that do not, according to a data analysis of 18 major publishers' accounts. The analysis found that traditiona…
Meta has scaled back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking program after worker backlash, now allowing staff to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes or request full exemptions. The retreat follows a petit…
A new study from University of California faculty reveals severe math deficits among STEM applicants, prompting a demand to reinstate SAT requirements for admissions. The pushback against test-optional policies comes as …
Nate Silver's data analysis reveals that Elon Musk's X platform has become dominated by low-quality, right-wing accounts, with Musk himself receiving the most engagement due to algorithmic manipulation. Accounts like "Ca…
A.I. is creating jobs rather than eliminating them, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said executives blaming layoffs on artificial intelligence are "lazy." The shift in discourse comes as a majority of Americans…
The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations likely targeting China and Iran, with the company embedding engineers at the agency to customize the technology. The collab…
A developer argued that token economics in AI systems are fundamentally flawed and called for new approaches, drawing inspiration from natural systems. The critique, posted on Hacker News, challenged the current AI oligo…
Forrester Research forecasts that 49 percent of current customer service jobs will disappear by 2030, according to a May 20, 2026 report by analysts Kate Leggett and Laura Ramos. The report argues AI agents are redefinin…
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Canada's AI for All strategy on June 4, directing more than $200 million CAD to the country's three national AI institutes and the Canadian AI Safety Institute. The funding supports 70…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reported that automated traffic now accounts for 57.5 percent of HTTP requests on the company's network, surpassing human traffic for the first time in internet history. The milestone arrive…
S&P Dow Jones Indices declined to fast-track SpaceX into the S&P 500 and rejected a broader rule change that would have eased entry for newly public megacaps, including unprofitable AI firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and White House officials have held ongoing discussions for over a year about a potential U.S. government equity stake in the company, with Altman first pitching the idea to President Donald Trump i…
India's electronics and IT secretary S Krishnan said the country needs greater "strategic autonomy" and control over hardware underpinning AI and biometric systems, citing supply-chain and industrial-espionage risks. Spe…
The US National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos model for offensive cyber operations, with roughly half a dozen Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency, according to the Financial Times. Axios r…
President Donald Trump said Friday he is in talks with leaders of major AI companies about the U.S. government acquiring stakes in their firms, a potential landmark federal intervention in the private sector. Trump confi…