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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-…
A new philosophical paper argues that the singularity hypothesis—the claim that self-improving artificial agents will rapidly become vastly more intelligent than humans—rests on unsupported growth assumptions. The author…
On June 3, 2026, the European Commission launched the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a legislative bundle including Chips Act 2.0, a Cloud and AI Development Act, and an open source strategy targeting 30 mil…
Hunter Biden corrected an AI-generated image of a 2028 presidential campaign flyer on Thursday, objecting that it showed a meth pipe rather than a crack pipe in his mouth. The image, shared by X user @SoundDobad, feature…
Microsoft updated its operational taxonomy of failure modes for agentic AI systems after 12 months of red teaming, adding seven newly emphasized failure modes including supply-chain compromise and goal hijacking. The tax…
Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) released a 269-page discussion draft of the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act on Thursday that would preempt state laws regulating AI model development fo…
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to go public, with Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 statement and nearing a $50B revenue run rate, while both companies remain unprofitable and heavily dependent on cash infusions. Bank…
Hackers exploited a flaw in Meta’s AI-powered customer support chatbot to take over Instagram accounts by adding a new email address through the bot. The exploit, described as "remarkably simple," allowed attackers to ga…
Code for an unreleased facial recognition feature called "NameTag" was discovered in Meta's AI app, according to a Wired report. The feature, which is not currently enabled or available to customers, would allow Meta sma…
The National Security Agency has deployed Anthropic's Mythos artificial intelligence model to conduct offensive cyber operations, according to sources familiar with the matter. The AI system is being used to identify vul…
Residents of Grimes County, Texas, are protesting SpaceX's proposed $55 billion Terafab semiconductor facility, citing concerns over its size, environmental impact, and lack of transparency. The Grimes County Commissione…
The Protect College Sports Act has divided the Power Four conferences, with the SEC and Big Ten opposing the legislation while the ACC and Big 12 support it. The bill creates an unexpected alliance among the remaining Gr…