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Meta's Oversight Board found that the company's rules for banning accounts are confusing and raise "due process concerns," particularly due to inconsistent penalties between Facebook and Instagram. The board upheld a ban…
Alpha School’s New York City campus at 180 Maiden Lane charges $65,000 annual tuition for a program that runs from 8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but the New York State Education Department rejected its application to operate a…
Anthropic announced it would support a verifiable global slowdown or temporary pause in frontier AI development to allow societal structures and alignment research to catch up with technological advances. The company sta…
Senator Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce the "American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" in a New York Times opinion essay published June 1, 2026, proposing a one-time 50 percent tax paid in stock to give the pu…
New research by Mitel reveals that frontline workers are twice as likely as other employees to use unapproved AI tools, driven by inadequate communication systems and low confidence in sanctioned technology. The global s…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs jointly urged Congress on June 3 to mandate screening and tracking of all synthetic DNA and RNA orders in the United States, warning that large language models are lowering ba…
Jamie Metzl warned that allowing artificial intelligence to write its own rules poses significant ethical challenges, while also arguing that AI can mine human history to extract universal ethical principles. Metzl empha…
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said artificial intelligence will enhance productivity and economic growth rather than cause widespread job loss, dismissing fears of mass unemployment as overblown. Solomon emphasized tha…
Hannah Lowery, a 19-year-old actor in Los Angeles, lost a role in a new ice-skating show after the production shifted entirely to AI, replacing all human actors. The $1.3 billion micro-drama industry is becoming ground z…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei signed an open letter urging policymakers to require synthetic nucleic acid providers to screen orders for dangerous sequences and verify customer legitimacy. The lett…
Teradata CEO Steve McMillan told the company's 5,100 employees in January not to expect annual salary raises this year, reallocating that budget toward AI investments instead. The global cloud software company is priorit…
Apple has removed the Russian corporate messaging app "Max," developed by VK, from the App Store, leaving it unavailable for download or updates on new iPhones in Russia. Existing users can still access the app, but the …
The IAB UK forecasts that AI-driven advertising spend in the UK will reach approximately £18bn by 2030, accounting for 32% of total digital ad spend. The report found that 58% of IAB UK members are experimenting with age…
Cloudflare's public Radar dashboard shows automated bots now generate a majority of HTML requests on the web, with readings of roughly 53% to 60% in sampled periods since late April 2026. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince po…
HM Revenue & Customs awarded Capgemini a £600 million contract to run its contact centers, while delaying the start of a separate £2.4 billion customer relationship management system deal. The new contact center agreemen…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told congressional leaders and White House officials on June 3 that the company has not engaged in a "massive lobbying campaign," despite OpenAI spending $1.02 million on federal lobbying in the fir…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is urging Congress to increase federal funding for AI testing at the Commerce Department while opposing any requirement for AI companies to obtain government approval before releasing models. Altman…
Starbucks Korea sparked public outrage on May 18 by launching a "Tank Day" coffee promotion on the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, a day South Koreans commemorate the killing of protestors by martial law troops…
South Korea will invest 22.5 billion won (US$14.7 million) through 2029 to develop AI models tailored for research and development, the ministry of science and ICT announced. The funding will support six projects in stra…
On May 18, Starbucks Korea launched a "Tank Day" coffee promotion, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, sparking public backlash. The timing of the promotion raised questions about whether artifi…