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OpenAI introduced a new ChatGPT security feature called Active sessions, allowing users to review and log out of individual or all active sessions across devices, now available for all account types. The feature addresse…
Grimes County, Texas, approved a 35-year full property tax exemption for SpaceX's planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor facility in a 4-1 vote, despite local opposition over environmental and fiscal concerns. The dea…
Amazon engineers in Seattle publicly criticized the company for building AI data centers while it conducts mass layoffs affecting 30,000 staffers and commits $200 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year. The crit…
Pope Leo XIV published a 42,300-word encyclical titled "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence" on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government regulation of AI, wor…
Generative AI has made creative asset production substantially cheaper, but advertising agency projects are not producing net cost savings and some are becoming more expensive than conventional productions, according to …
A coalition of nine US trade associations warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on June 3 that AI data centers are consuming the majority of global memory chip production, causing …
The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI signed a public letter urging Congress to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders to prevent AI-enabled development of biological weapons. The le…
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman told Congress on June 4 that tokenized securities should receive the same capital treatment as traditional securities and that the central bank is developing a r…
Two AI-aligned super PACs, Public First and Leading the Future, have spent nearly $24 million in the 2026 U.S. midterm cycle, with over $100 million more in planned spending, according to a New York Times report. The New…
Failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes surged in spring 2026, with 35.3% of CS 10 students and 10.6% of CS 61A students receiving F’s, far exceeding the department’s guideline of 7% D’s and F’s f…
OpenAI has released a policy document calling for mandatory pre-deployment safety evaluations of powerful AI models, a stricter stance than the Trump Administration's voluntary framework outlined in a recent executive or…
Data sovereignty has become a board-level AI risk in 2026 as regulated industries face new exposure from AI workflows that process, embed, and route data across multiple uncontrolled surfaces. The European Commission's 2…
Anthropic published a candid post-mortem on two years of deploying Claude as an autonomous agent, detailing security challenges and containment strategies, while also announcing a partnership with KPMG to deploy Claude t…
The AI Lab launched RSS 2.0 and JSON Feed 1.1 feeds for its insights section, with plans to cryptographically sign all items under the Trust Identity Protocol after the Genesis Date. Founder Dinesh Mendhe emphasized that…
Snyk advises organizations to shift AI security budgets from fragmented tool spending to unified investments in visibility, governance, and control across the full AI lifecycle. The company warns that visibility without …
Microsoft demonstrated its independence from OpenAI at its Build developer conference by launching a family of in-house AI models, including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, trained from scratch without distillation. …
A self-spreading npm worm called Miasma v2 compromised 57 packages across 286+ malicious versions by using a malicious binding.gyp file to trigger arbitrary code execution during npm install, without declaring lifecycle …
A new service called Liable Humans for AI provides organizations with verified human involvement at key decision points in AI workflows, including identity verification, authorized approvals, and document execution. The …
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical warns that AI’s current trajectory threatens human dignity, but the pontiff failed to address the most consequential question of what purpose the technology should serve. The encyclical co…
The Wyoming Joint Education Committee discussed artificial intelligence in K-12 schools Tuesday, with the Wyoming Department of Education urging preparation for the technology's inevitable spread rather than resistance. …