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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…
A developer has built a "re-derivation gate" that checks whether the source conditions for a time-to-live grant have changed since the grant was issued, rather than relying solely on timestamp expiry. In a test called CL…
A distinction has emerged within effective altruism between "EA 1.0," the pre-2013 global poverty-focused movement, and "EA 2.0," the post-2017 version centered on AI and existential risk. The author argues that critics …
Naked Capitalism published an essay arguing that claims about AI-driven social progress remain unproven and contradictory, citing $757.3 billion in private-sector AI investment from 2013-2025 and projections that global …
A new guide provides IT administrators with step-by-step instructions for disabling Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Apple Intelligence on corporate-managed devices. The resource targets organizations seeking to rem…
Amazon engineers publicly criticized the company at a Seattle City Council hearing this week, accusing the tech giant of spending $200 billion on AI infrastructure and data centers while cutting 30,000 corporate jobs in …
Professor Scott Galloway stated that 95% of enterprise AI spending generates no return a CFO can identify, citing Uber burning its entire 2026 AI budget before April and Stripe spending $100,000 daily on AI tokens. The w…
Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte of California and Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts released a draft bill Thursday that would require large AI developers to report frontier model development to the government, c…
Kevin O'Leary agreed to cut his proposed 40,000-acre Utah data center project nearly in half after backlash from state lawmakers and community members concerned about energy, water, and environmental impacts. The scaled-…
President Donald Trump posted unsubstantiated claims of "big cheating" in California elections, alleging Democrats are "trying to steal" the gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral races. Trump's accusations come as Republ…
Two NIH scientists, virologist Vincent Munster and postdoctoral fellow Claude Kwe, face federal charges for conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States after customs officials discovered 113 undeclared viral s…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new national AI strategy called "AI for All," which prioritizes strengthening data protections, increasing AI adoption, and investing in Canadian-owned AI infrastructure ov…
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Canada's national artificial intelligence strategy, AI for All, on June 4, 2026 in Toronto, targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new AI-related jobs over five years. T…
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said productivity growth is "everywhere except in the data" during remarks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit, while also stating monetary policy is "in a good place…