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Anthropic reports that its AI model Claude now generates over 90% of the company’s production code, with engineers shipping eight times more code daily than in 2024. The company is advocating for a verifiable, global pau…
Monterey Park, California, voters approved Measure NDC with 86.27% support on June 2, enacting the first citywide permanent ban on data center development in the United States. The prohibition, triggered by public opposi…
Effective Altruism Global 2026 in London highlighted a growing gap between the movement's research-focused community and the practitioners needed to implement its ideas. An architect attending the conference told an EA p…
Anthropic analyzed 832 banned accounts that used its AI systems for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and March 2026, finding that low-skill hackers are leveraging the technology to execute advanced attacks. Th…
Amazon engineers publicly criticized the company's $200 billion data center spending spree, calling out the hypocrisy of massive AI infrastructure investment while simultaneously laying off 30,000 corporate employees. Sp…
Anthropic on Thursday called on frontier AI developers to establish a coordinated, verifiable mechanism to pause or slow development if advanced systems begin improving themselves faster than society can manage. The comp…
The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft AI have signed an open letter to Congress urging mandatory government screening of synthetic DNA and RNA sales, warning that their own AI systems are lowering the barriers to …
As AI models approach greater autonomy, developers need practical safety controls—not just policy debates—to manage risk. The most critical feature is a "brake pedal" that can reduce a model's capability, scope, or acces…
The Louis Riel School Division in southeast Winnipeg is adopting a teacher-built digital assistant to help draft end-of-year report card comments. The tool was developed by and for educators in the division, which serves…
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Canada's national AI strategy, AI for All, on June 4, 2026 in Toronto, targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new AI jobs over five years. The plan includes a $500-milli…
Actor Kim Soo-hyun's agency Gold Medalist welcomed Friday's police decision to refer YouTuber Kim Se-ui, operator of the HoverLab channel, to prosecutors on charges including defamation, coercion, and stalking. The agenc…
Google, Meta, and Mozilla are collaborating on a W3 specification to add browser-level features for tracking ad impressions, clicks, and conversions. The proposed system would route data through ad networks and attributi…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warned that artificial intelligence is approaching a point where it could develop without human input, calling for the ability to slow AI progression through government policy and regulati…
Ladybird project maintainers announced they will no longer accept public pull requests, restricting code changes to project maintainers only as the browser moves toward its first alpha release. The decision, effective im…
The European Commission released its Chips Act 2.0 proposal on June 3, shifting the focus from manufacturing capacity to demand-driven semiconductor policy. The new strategy aims to strengthen Europe's chip design capabi…
A group of Dutch doctors and healthcare campaigners filed a formal complaint against Philip Morris with the advertising authority Reclame Code Commissie, accusing the tobacco giant of running a misleading campaign. The c…
Amit Gautam, CTO at AI-security vendor Abluva, outlined in a Help Net Security video how autonomous AI agents introduce governance and security risks inside enterprises. Gautam demonstrated a scenario where a reconciliat…
The European Commission has published its Tech Sovereignty Plan, allocating vast resources to semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, AI, and data centers while giving minimal attention to open source and decentralized soc…
Companies that provide developers with laptops using their full names and usernames, then deploy coding agents like Gemini, expose developers' personally identifiable information (PII) to U.S. data centers without protec…
An engineer who analyzed the EU AI Act's Article 17 found that most AI agent teams are unprepared for the August 2, 2026 compliance deadline, particularly regarding quality management system (QMS) requirements. The engin…