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The Trump administration is expected to issue the world’s first commercial permits to mine in international waters, allowing companies to extract valuable minerals from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. T…
Pope Francis released an encyclical on artificial intelligence titled *Magnifica Humanitas*, warning that the technology risks becoming a tool of exclusion and exploitation if driven solely by profit and efficiency. The …
Toronto Tech Week offered developers opportunities to learn about cutting-edge technologies like quantum computing and agentic protocols, network with industry peers, and explore public-sector AI adoption. One developer …
Online platforms including YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok have implemented AI content labels, but none offer users a filter to block AI-generated material from their feeds. DeviantArt and Pinterest provide limited suppre…
Palantir has won a £9 million contract to manage the UK's firearms licensing system, giving the CIA-backed company access to records on guns, bombs, and poisons. The decade-long deal, which beat out competitors Accenture…
Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Anxious Generation," warned in a recent TED Talk that AI-powered toys and chatbots could harm children's emotional development by becoming attachment figures, potentially weakening bonds wi…
AI industry leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman signed an open letter urging US lawmakers to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders to prevent AI-a…
A federal magistrate judge in Colorado reports that AI tools have driven a doubling of court filings from unrepresented litigants since 2023, but the technology has not improved their chances of winning. Judges are now q…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has warned that Chinese state-linked actors are using LinkedIn connection requests to target individuals for espionage, reviving a cash-for-intel tradecraft method first identified yea…
A Vox report outlines a scenario where battlefield AI systems deployed during a standoff around Taiwan compress decision timelines and increase the risk of inadvertent nuclear escalation. The report describes a commander…
ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus warned that a pending US fair-use ruling in the Suno case could determine the future of AI music licensing, stating that a Suno victory would collapse all existing licensing deals. Speaking …
Canadian AI company Cohere has denied any commercial relationship with Palantir Technologies, stating in an emailed statement that "Palantir is not a customer or partner." The denial follows social-media and press specul…
Josh Duhamel, actor and entrepreneur, stated on the Shawn Ryan Show that financial success buys freedom but does not guarantee happiness or simplicity. He emphasized the importance of prepping for societal collapse throu…
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed a 50% tax on artificial intelligence-generated wealth, with the proceeds distributed directly to American citizens as a "national dividend." The plan would seize assets from billionaires and …
Qoris released Knox, a security policy engine for AI coding agents that ships as a standalone CLI, Node library, and plugins for Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex. The open-source Developer Knox protects local agent …
A blog owner blocked access to their site for users of outdated browsers, particularly old Chrome versions, due to a surge of high-volume crawlers suspected of gathering data for LLM training in early 2025. The block als…
On May 28, 2026, Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation, followed by a confidential draft S-1 submission to the SEC on June 1. The company disclosed $47 billion in run-rate reve…
Three leading AI companies — Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI — are racing to go public this year, with SpaceX’s IPO potentially becoming the largest in history and the combined value of all three offerings totaling over $3…
ReARM released version 26.06.5 on June 1, 2026, introducing an end-to-end platform for governing AI coding agents with agent modeling, session tracking, commit attribution, and signature verification. The release also gr…
Crypto’s reputation in Washington has shifted from hype to a recognized industry as automated trading becomes more user-friendly and the Agent Payments Protocol enables AI agents to conduct full commercial transactions o…