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Anthropic called for a slowdown in AI development to prevent risks from systems capable of recursive self-improvement, citing its own internal data. The company suggested a global pause similar to Cold War-era nuclear di…
Influencers and podcasts directed the 2024 election conversation more than traditional media, signaling the death of the old campaign playbook, according to Kamala Harris's deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty. Flaherty …
One year after launching PauseAI UK with fewer than 50 protesters and no political support, the organization has grown to deliver two conferences, secure signatures from 63 UK politicians on an open letter, and co-organi…
Technology companies cut 38,242 U.S. jobs in May 2026, the highest monthly total for the sector since August 2024, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The year-to-date total of 123,653 tech job cuts marks a 66% in…
Anthropic proposed a worldwide temporary pause on AI development and announced plans to convene policymakers to discuss the risks of advanced AI systems. The company detailed progress toward "recursive self-improvement" …
S&P Dow Jones Indices rejected a rule change that would have allowed newly public megacap companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic to enter the S&P 500 faster, keeping its 12-month seasoning requirement in place. The…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that artificial intelligences, including large language models like ChatGPT, are not conscious and cannot experience love, joy, or moral responsibility, a posi…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently visited the White House and the company signaled contentment with the latest AI executive order, easing tensions after a previous dispute. The AI lab is not pushing to slow development…
The Pentagon suspended the Permanent Joint Board on Defence on May 18th, citing Canada's failure to make credible progress on its commitments and an unacceptable gap between rhetoric and reality. The move exposes a criti…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority ordered Google to allow news publishers to opt out of having their content scraped for AI training and search features, marking what the regulator called a "world first." The watc…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul faces a December deadline to sign or veto a bill that would impose a one-year moratorium on permits for hyperscale data centers, making the state the first in the nation to halt AI infrastr…
Governments and AI safety organizations must prepare to detect and respond to "warning shots"—events like alarming safety evaluations or major AI accidents—to catalyze international cooperation on AGI risks before it is …
The Linux Foundation is launching the Tokenomics Foundation as enterprise AI bills triple despite a 98% drop in per-token prices, driven by agentic tools that have pushed per-developer consumption 18.6 times higher in ni…
Arizona Public Service (APS) filed a rate case requesting a $662 million revenue increase, proposing a 45% rate hike for data centers and a 14-16% increase for residential customers. The utility cited a projected 40% sur…
Anthropic called on leading AI labs and governments to consider slowing or temporarily pausing frontier AI development, citing internal data showing that Claude now writes over 80% of code merged into Anthropic’s codebas…
The European Commission on June 3-5, 2026 proposed a "European Technological Sovereignty Package" including a Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, and Open Source Strategy to reduce the EU's reliance on non-EU te…
Meta embedded unreleased face-recognition code, internally named "NameTag," into the Meta AI app used with Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, according to a WIRED code review. The code, added as early as January, would co…
OpenAI would likely have imploded if Sam Altman had not returned as CEO after his brief ouster in 2023, former Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco. Murati, who late…
The Caribbean regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, "The Serpent in the Grove" by Jamir Nazir, has drawn online accusations of being AI-generated after an AI-detection platform scored the text as 100% ma…
A BambooHR survey reported by HR Dive on June 5 found that 81% of business leaders reported increased employee productivity over the past year, while 85% of employees reported significant workplace stress. The survey als…