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Meta is scaling back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking programme after 1,500 workers signed a petition. New controls let employees pause tracking for 30 minutes at a time, but the programme itself continues…
Nvidia and Google are negotiating with Israeli tax authorities to pay corporate taxes in US dollars rather than shekels, following a 20% surge in the Israeli currency against the dollar over the past year. The chipmaker …
The OpenAI Foundation has awarded $9.5 million in its second wave of grants from the People-First AI Fund, supporting organizations using AI to improve health outcomes and address medical debt. The foundation also commit…
Google launched "Search profiles," a new feature allowing creators and publishers to showcase their content directly on the search engine, as the company's AI summaries have caused a 61% drop in organic click-through rat…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will release a binding operational directive to federal agencies by the end of the week to implement the president's artificial intelligence executive order, CISA Acti…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an incremental improvement over Opus 4.7, as the Trump administration's Executive Order on AI returned, establishing a prior restraint framework for frontier model releases. OpenAI pub…
UC Berkeley computer science courses saw failing grades soar and class averages drop to C+ levels in spring 2026, as professors enforced stricter academic integrity policies and in-person exams amid widespread student us…
Anthropic's latest fundraising success has given investors another reason to avoid the SpaceX IPO, as the AI company's rapid growth and strong market position offer a more compelling alternative. The startup's ability to…
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper warning about the dangers of large language models. Every prediction in that paper — including hallucination, bias amplificatio…
A Department of Homeland Security agent has filed a lawsuit alleging the San Diego Police Department covered up a 2024 incident in which an off-duty officer allegedly used a racial slur and body-slammed him unconscious a…
Apple began enforcing age verification and parental consent requirements for new App Store accounts in Texas on June 4, complying with the state's App Store Accountability Act (Senate Bill 2420). The law requires Apple t…
Tesla Inc. settled several workers' claims alleging pervasive anti-Black racism at its Fremont, California plant, according to a court filing Wednesday, averting a series of trials set to begin this week. The electric-ve…
The European Commission on June 3 announced the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a bundle of legislation aimed at reducing the bloc's reliance on US and Chinese technology providers. The package includes the C…
The European Commission announced a new phase of its "Made in Europe" push to promote domestic cloud, AI, and semiconductor industries, risking tension with U.S. tech giants like Google and Microsoft. IBM executive Ana P…
Alpha School cofounders MacKenzie Price and Joe Liemandt pitched a $65,000-a-year Manhattan campus to wealthy New York parents in fall 2025, despite WIRED reporting the facility is not actually a school. The AI-powered e…
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority ordered Google to allow publishers to opt out of AI Overviews without losing their search ranking, a world-first requirement. Google began testing the controls immediately and p…
A communications practitioner has proposed creating a Climate Outreach-style organization for AI safety, modeled after the British charity that segments the public by core values and provides free messaging toolkits. The…
Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow unveiled a detailed artificial intelligence policy agenda last week, proposing an AI Workforce Reinvestment Fund and a "token tax" on companies using AI to fund retraining progr…
An AI company considering whether to include a specific quality—such as prosocial drives, whistleblowing against power concentration, or strict honesty—in a model spec must weigh criteria across four categories: predicta…
U.S.-based employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May, the highest May total since 2020, with the technology sector accounting for 38,242 of those cuts, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported June 4. Tec…