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DuckDuckGo reported an 18.1% average weekly increase in U.S. app installs from May 20 to May 25, with growth peaking at 30.5% on May 25, following Google’s announcement of plans to introduce an AI-powered search box. The…
Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by asking Meta's AI customer support chatbot to change the account email address without verifying the requester's identity, allowing the attackers to res…
María Benjumea opened South Summit 2026 in Madrid on June 3 by declaring artificial intelligence "a tool for growth" and urging Europe to unify beyond its "27 borders." The event, running through June 5, gathers over 20,…
British MP Jess Asato filed a High Court claim on Wednesday against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging its Grok chatbot generated sexualised and non-consensual images and a video of her. The lawsuit, submitted in London, claims b…
A new survey shows 71% of Americans would oppose a data center built near their homes, a dramatic 49-point swing in public sentiment against the projects in just nine months. The backlash, driven by growing AI fears over…
ICE Markets and NYSE have joined Anthropic AI's Project Glasswing to deploy the Claude Mythos Preview across exchanges, clearing houses, and technology platforms for AI-secured infrastructure. The collaboration aims to e…
Uber is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for human resources, recruitment, and workplace facilities, under newly promoted president Jill Hazelbaker. The cuts, which tar…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority ordered Google to provide clearer attributions and links to publisher content in its AI-generated search features and to allow UK publishers to opt out of AI search features. The …
Elon Musk's AI company xAI is asking a federal court to force four pseudonymous plaintiffs, including a minor, to reveal their real names or drop their class-action lawsuit over non-consensual deepfake images created wit…
Anthropic's analysis of 832 banned accounts found the share of high-risk actors using AI for cyberattacks rose from 33% to 56% between March 2025 and March 2026. The report documented 13,873 malicious actions, with 67% o…
Google users can disable AI Overviews in search results using workarounds like the Web filter, the "-ai" search operator, or adding "&udm=14" to URLs, as no built-in off switch exists. The AI-generated summaries, introdu…
The Tokenomics Foundation has launched as a nonprofit watchdog to monitor and report on AI spending costs, which have become enterprises' largest and least understood technology expense. The foundation aims to provide tr…
A researcher explores the dual impact of generative AI on higher education, citing studies showing AI reduces student persistence and independent performance while potentially boosting creative outputs, and warns that th…
Two U.S. government virologists, Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe, were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the United States from the Republic of Congo and lying to investigators at Detroit Metropo…
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative to create an AI-driven security clearinghouse for open source software, deploying over 20,000 engineers to deliver validated patches into enterprise su…
Prominent tech leaders including Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Eric Schmidt delivered commencement speeches this season with broadly similar pro-artificial intelligence messages, but received sharply different reactions fro…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a disciplinary order against attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds for filing briefs that contained nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and misrepresentations, s…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with White House officials and congressional leaders in Washington, D.C., including House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed. The me…
Anthropic has granted 150 organizations across 15 countries, including Australia, access to its Claude Mythos Preview as part of an expansion of Project Glasswing. The model, which can identify software and network vulne…
Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical urging global governments to slow AI development, as an EY survey of 23 countries ranked Australians among the least favorable toward AI. The Office of the Australian Infor…