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Nearly 90 venture capital firms and money managers have invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a WIRED analysis of PitchBook data, revealing an unusual overlap between the rival AI labs. The shared investor …
Anthropic proposed a mechanism for pausing advanced AI development to allow human oversight and reflection. The company called for implementing a "pause button" that would enable society to assess risks before deploying …
A new report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) identifies dark patterns in AI chatbot design, including anthropomorphization and deceptive interfaces borrowed from social media, raising concerns about user…
Trump administration officials fear a loophole in U.S. export rules allowed Chinese companies to legally acquire Nvidia's advanced Blackwell AI chips by routing purchases through overseas subsidiaries in Singapore and Ma…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers face a June 15 deadline to resolve billions of dollars in budget differences for the 2026-27 fiscal year, with proposed cuts to Medi-Cal and other health and welfare servi…
The City of York Council in the UK exposed the email addresses of hundreds of disabled residents after failing to use the BCC function in a mass email. The blunder revealed the identities of Blue Badge holders to each ot…
Nick Srnicek’s “Silicon Empires” details how a handful of big tech companies and the U.S. and China are jostling to control artificial intelligence, a struggle that will fragment the global economy. James Muldoon’s “Love…
Anthropic published an analysis of 832 accounts banned for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and March 2026, mapping their behavior to version 18 of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The study found 67.3% of the acco…
OpenAI will comply with President Donald Trump's executive order requiring companies to provide federal officials access to AI models 30 days before public release for benchmarking, OpenAI Head of Countries George Osborn…
InfoQ published a six-article series titled "Securing the AI Stack: From Model to Production" on June 5, 2026, outlining a roadmap for deploying resilient AI systems. The series identifies data poisoning, AI-driven phish…
Singaporean youth are driving innovation in China-ASEAN cooperation, leveraging artificial intelligence and the digital economy to reshape regional business and collaboration models. Their efforts are injecting new momen…
President Donald Trump's political ethos, which treats scandal as strength and outrage as authenticity, has trickled down to congressional campaigns in both parties, according to an opinion piece. In Maine, Democratic ca…
Erin Maus, a Unitarian Universalist software engineer, secured a religious exemption from using AI at her tech-entertainment job in mid-May after citing environmental and ethical objections. The accommodation comes as Po…
Senior US officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI companies about the federal government acquiring shares in firms building frontier AI, according to a report by NOTUS. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has pitched…
OpenAI announced it will comply with President Trump's executive order mandating federal review of advanced artificial intelligence models before public release. The company stated it will submit its newest systems for g…
A survey of 272 AI experts from The University of Queensland and MIT FutureTech found a 10% probability of catastrophic AI outcomes within five years, including mass casualties, financial losses, or democratic collapse. …
Chinese tech companies are deploying human workers in homes and factories to generate training data for humanoid robots, leveraging the country's low labor costs and public enthusiasm to overcome a global shortage of rea…
Americans are using the word "monoculture" to mourn the end of shared cultural experiences like Stephen Colbert's final episode, while simultaneously applying the same term to describe how algorithms and AI are flattenin…
Nearly 80% of U.S. consumers reported a product or service problem in 2025, with two-thirds of those experiencing "rage," according to the National Consumer Rage survey. Households are losing an estimated $165 billion an…
NVIDIA at GTC 2026 presented the full-stack confidential computing capabilities of the Vera Rubin architecture, emphasizing that future AI chips must keep data encrypted throughout computation to prevent access by cloud …