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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…
Labour MP Jess Asato filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI in the UK High Court on June 3, alleging its Grok chatbot generated a non-consensual deepfake bikini image of her. The suit, citing the Data Protection Act and…
ControlAI's UK parliamentary outreach has secured 125 cross-party signatories on a statement recognizing AI extinction risk and calling for binding regulation within 16 months, starting from zero contacts in December 202…
Apple's new Gemini-powered Siri will route user queries to Google Cloud for processing on Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs, not Apple's own servers or silicon, when cloud compute is needed. The privacy guarantee relies on Nvid…
The Consortium, an open research platform, is using AI assistance to address humanity's most under-studied problems, including pandemic risk, AI safety, and climate adaptation. Anyone can contribute research or fund the …
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appointed Siemens’ chairman as an adviser on industrial AI, sparking conflict-of-interest accusations after the German engineering firm helped secure a rollback of the E…
New York appellate judges Valerie Brathwaite Nelson and Hector LaSalle publicly excoriated attorney Michael Sanders during a May 20 hearing for citing at least three fictitious cases and misrepresenting 10 others in a si…
A forecasting agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 failed to predict Brazil's passage of a circular economy bill on October 29, 2025, assigning only a 30% probability despite the bill passing two weeks later. The…
John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, has reached a plea deal to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents and pay a fine of more th…
TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stated on June 4 that Taiwan’s competitive advantage in AI chip manufacturing is nearly impossible for other countries to challenge. Wei acknowledged that fully satisfying US customer deman…
Open-weight AI models are fundamentally harder to safeguard than closed models because adversaries can extract weights directly and retrain them to bypass embedded protections. In September 2025, the open-source genomic …
YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok now automatically label AI-generated images, video, and music in feeds and descriptions, but do not offer users a simple filter to hide such content from their personal feeds. The absence o…
Only 30% of US businesses are actively mapping which local AI agents have access to critical systems, according to eSecurity Planet, creating a security blind spot for organizations. The report found that accelerating AI…
The Fairfax County Circuit Court denied a non-party request from Lauren Burke for an uncertified, AI-generated transcript of a child custody trial, citing the document was "replete with errors, omissions, and other inacc…
Governments are reframing AI safety rules as coercive tools against tech firms rather than public protection measures, according to a June 4, 2026 article by Michael Gregory in The Conversation. President Donald Trump's …