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Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, about the federal government acquiring shares in their firms, according to three people familiar wit…
Bay Area voters may face a 0.5% sales tax increase to subsidize BART and other transit agencies due to lower ridership, but one Alameda resident argues the region should first consolidate its 27 separate transit authorit…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told staff Thursday he is "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense," referring to an internal Microsoft document that labeled Phase 1 of the company's Scout …
San Jose voters may soon see a simpler alternative to ranked-choice voting, as a letter writer proposes a 1-to-5 star rating system for candidates. The suggestion comes amid debate over the city's consideration of ranked…
California lawmakers are again considering AB 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted an o…
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee called for artificial intelligence to preserve the web's original values of individual primacy, speaking to AFP at SXSW London 2026. Berners-Lee warned that AI models rely on the w…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told BBC Newsnight that the AI industry needs a way to slow progress, warning systems could reach a point where they "develop without human input." Clark said Anthropic's chatbot Claude is…
The U.S. Department of Energy and Japan's MEXT and METI ministries announced a $1 billion strategic partnership, making Japan the first international partner in the DOE's Genesis Mission. The five-year, $500 million-per-…
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said the province will not approve a proposed hyperscale AI data centre on roughly 141 hectares of farmland near Ile-des-Chenes, southeast of Winnipeg, citing environmental concerns and limited…
New York City is emerging as a hub for applied artificial intelligence, driven by major office leases from OpenAI and other AI firms, according to reporting from NY Tech Week. Andreessen Horowitz partner David Haber pred…
A Hacker News user posted an open thread asking tech workers how they are feeling, citing a sense of collective darkness. Commenters responded with advice on maintaining a positive outlook through action and questions ab…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, warning that government use of ge…
Venture capitalists at NY Tech Week are betting New York City will become the "applied AI capital," with AI giants like OpenAI opening offices to tap into the city's media, finance, and healthcare industries. The optimis…
A developer detailed the technical challenges of deploying secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and autonomous AI agents in healthcare, highlighting risks like prompt injection, semantic collision, and context ove…
Canada announced plans to develop its own artificial intelligence systems in an effort to reduce reliance on U.S.-based AI technologies. The initiative aims to strengthen national data sovereignty and ensure Canadian val…
An open-source project called Chipotlai Max has hardcoded Chipotle's customer-support chatbot "Pepper" as a default model to provide free inference, according to its GitHub repository. The project exposes a local proxy a…
SpaceX submitted proposals to build the first phase of its Terafab semiconductor factory in Grimes County, Texas, a project that would cost at least $55 billion and could reach $119 billion. Grimes County commissioners v…
Federal officials and a bipartisan group of state governors have proposed breaking up PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. power grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C., after capac…
Federal authorities arrested Jamshid Ghomi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen and tech CEO, at his Orange County home on Thursday for allegedly supplying U.S. computer networking equipment to Iran’s nuclear program in violatio…
More than 35% of University of California, Berkeley students failed an entry-level computer science course this spring, a sharp increase from the typical 7% failure rate. Professors attributed the spike to students over-…