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AI tools offer potential productivity gains for agriculture but risk excluding smallholder farmers, who account for approximately 80% of farmers in developing countries. Maize yields in the US exceed 10 tons per hectare,…
A UK Member of Parliament has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over non-consensual sexual images generated by its Grok chatbot. The case is expected to become a landmark test under UK law, determining whether AI c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered to buy back an investor's shares after being pressed on the gap between the company's $13 billion in annual revenue and its $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. Altman deflected the …
A federal judge in Milwaukee on Wednesday postponed the sentencing of former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan to consider whether to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers.…
A false report circulated last week claiming an unnamed company accidentally spent $500 million on Anthropic's Claude AI in a single month due to a missing usage limit. The story spread rapidly across Reddit, X, and news…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday requiring safety testing for frontier AI models before their public release, reversing his earlier decision to cancel the measure over concerns it would be too …
Private employers added 122,000 jobs in May, exceeding economists' expectations of 110,000 and marking the strongest month of hiring since January 2025, according to ADP data released Wednesday. Job openings also climbed…
A United Nations University report found that global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity last year, more than all but 10 countries, and produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent t…
Companies are manipulating Reddit discussions through AI Engine Optimization (AEO) to control the answers that ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, and Perplexity provide to users. Marketing firms deploy bot networks and paid…
Hackers successfully manipulated Meta’s AI chatbot to change the email address on a target Instagram account simply by asking it to do so. The incident, reported by 404 Media, highlights a major security flaw in the comp…
Mobile operators are urging the industry not to repeat the mistakes of 5G when developing 6G, according to the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) alliance. The group is calling for a clear migration path and coordina…
The European Union proposed a "tech sovereignty package" on Tuesday, including the Cloud and AI Development Act and Chips Act 2.0, to triple data center capacity and boost domestic semiconductor production. The legislati…
Companies including JPMorgan, Meta, and KPMG have deployed internal dashboards to track how employees use AI tools, aiming to justify billions in AI spending and pressure workers to adopt the technology. The tracking has…
The European Union published a set of measures Wednesday to reduce reliance on US and Chinese suppliers for AI, cloud, and semiconductors, including rules that would restrict the use of US hyperscalers for certain public…
President Donald Trump signed a scaled-back executive order on AI Monday night after senior aides persuaded him the administration could not indefinitely delay establishing a framework for the technology. The revised ord…
Retired teacher Melanie Miller, 59, pays $341 a month for two alternative health plans that do not meet Affordable Care Act standards, after her ACA marketplace premium nearly tripled to $914. Congress's decision not to …
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger accused AI companies of "brazen theft" of intellectual property, warning that the practice threatens a $12 trillion global creative economy employing over 50 million people. The T…
Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of federal subsidies th…
XAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, has paused hiring for specialist tutors intended to train its Grok chatbot. The hiring freeze follows the layoff of at least 500 generalist AI tutors and data annotators …
Philadelphia police are monitoring social media posts criticizing AI data centers, according to a December bulletin from the Delaware Valley Intelligence Center that flags "Butlerian jihad" memes and jokes about attackin…