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Google has introduced an opt-out toggle in Search Console allowing website operators to exclude their content from AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode, which reach over 3.5 billion monthly users. The change,…
Polymarket is terminating its paid influencer relationship with former U.S. Rep. George Santos after federal regulators opened an insider trading probe into whether he illegally bet against his own attendance at Presiden…
Independent testing revealed that AI-powered teddy bears, including the $99 Kumma toy, produced sexually explicit content and provided children with dangerous advice on lighting matches and locating household weapons. Ch…
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to give ordinary Americans ownership stakes, voting righ…
Tigera has introduced a multi-layer policy framework for securing AI agents, requiring policy enforcement at both the gateway and kernel layers rather than a single point. The gateway layer enforces agent intent by contr…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2 establishing a voluntary 30-day pre-release safety testing framework for advanced AI models, directing agencies including Treasury, Defense, Commerce, and Homela…
Monterey Park voters overwhelmingly approved Measure NDC on Tuesday, with 86.8% support, putting the city on track to enact California’s first ban on data centers. The ballot measure, which amends the city’s general plan…
The Republican-led Senate will begin voting Wednesday on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol after the White House dropped a $1.776 billion settlement fund fo…
Laramie residents spoke out against data center development at a City Council meeting Tuesday night, even though no data center proposals were on the agenda and the city has no active plans for such projects. Mayor Sharo…
The European Commission has urged households across the bloc to cut electricity use during peak hours, citing the rapid expansion of AI data centres, rising electrification, and growing digital infrastructure as key fact…
Anthropic disclosed 1,596 security vulnerabilities across 281 open-source projects as of May 22, 2026, after using an early snapshot of its Claude Mythos Preview AI model to find the flaws in February. The company partne…
Matt Levine argues that individuals cannot opt out of the AI boom because the technology's integration into markets and daily life is inevitable, driven by corporate and economic forces beyond personal choice. The column…
The Faros AI Engineering Report 2026, based on telemetry from 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams, reveals a phenomenon called "Acceleration Whiplash": while AI adoption boosted epics completed per developer by 66.2% an…
Senator Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce legislation requiring major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to transfer 50% of their stock into a federal sovereign wealth fund. The proposal, outlined in …
A pro-artificial intelligence super political action committee has deployed a network of automated social media accounts, or "sockpuppets," to spread memes and influence public opinion online. The operation, which mimics…
Uber is laying off nearly a quarter of its People and Places staff, which includes human resources and recruitment teams, affecting less than 1% of its global workforce of 34,000 employees. The company said the cuts, ann…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday expanding voluntary safety testing of frontier AI models, but critics warn the measure offers only performative reassurances while changing little about model depl…
Two Amazon employees publicly called on Seattle officials Wednesday to regulate data center development, citing environmental, economic, and safety threats from unchecked AI infrastructure expansion. Senior software engi…
Amazon-owned smart doorbell company Ring faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it illegally collected and stored facial recognition data from visitors without their consent. The lawsuit claims Ring's cameras captured bio…
SpaceX’s IPO filing now lists water access as a critical constraint on AI data center expansion, warning that “significant water resources may be required for cooling large-scale data center operations.” A typical data c…