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SoftBank Group announced plans to invest up to €75 billion ($87 billion) to build data centers in France, aiming to develop 5 gigawatts of capacity with an initial 3.1 gigawatts in Dunkirk, Bosquel, and Bouchain by 2031.…
Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell have introduced a bill containing provisions that could curb the power of the Big Ten and SEC conferences. The legislation targets the growing influence of the two wealthiest college …
New York City model Francheska Pujols sued retailer Rainbow USA on May 22 in New York Supreme Court, alleging the company used AI-generated images replicating her likeness in sexualized advertising after her contract exp…
Generative artificial intelligence is now embedded in daily life across Japan, with students using it for schoolwork, office workers streamlining tasks, and consumers relying on it for travel and dining recommendations. …
Chad Whitacre is retiring from the technology industry to live offline, taking concrete steps to disengage from digital life. His departure contrasts with common online threats to quit careers over artificial intelligenc…
Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order Friday establishing stricter rules for large-scale data center development, directly responding to community backlash over Kevin O'Leary's proposed 40,000-acre Stratos …
Model Francheska Pujols filed a lawsuit May 22 in New York Supreme Court alleging Rainbow USA replaced her with an AI-generated clone and placed the replica in sexually suggestive ads without her consent after her contra…
Harvard graduate Barak advised the Class of 2026 to master and extensively use AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude Code, regardless of their field of study. He urged graduates to treat AI critically as citizens, holding com…
Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump are seeking payouts from the administration’s nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government, despite bipart…
Illegal betting apps are using AI-generated reels, targeted ads, and fake news-style promotions on Instagram and Facebook to lure young users. The campaigns evade crackdowns by misusing social media platforms and synthet…
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka imposed a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and closed a street near the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility after clashes between pro-ICE supporters and protesters escalated into late-night confrontations …
Ernst & Young Canada published a 44-page cybersecurity report in late 2025 that contains fabricated citations, misattributed sources, fake statistics, and AI-generated text, according to an investigation by GPTZero. The …
Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, admitting she shared articles favorable to Beijing on a news website without notifying U.S.…
A C# Corner article by John Godel, published May 2026, reports that 78% of organizations used AI in 2024 and generative-AI adoption across business functions rose to 71%, while governance maturity has not kept pace. Citi…
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word encyclical titled *Magnifica Humanitas* addressing artificial intelligence, marking the 135th anniversary of *Rerum Novarum*. The document explicitly retires the just-war tr…
IBM and Red Hat announced a $5 billion commitment on May 28, 2026, to launch Project Lightwell, a security clearinghouse for enterprise open source software backed by 20,000 engineers and AI tooling. The initiative follo…
Zero Assist, a new desktop application, detects AI cheating in remote technical interviews by monitoring for unauthorized tools like ChatGPT and screen overlays. The app runs transparently in the background with candidat…
Vectoralix has introduced a managed gateway platform for securing remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, implementing OAuth, bearer tokens, and scoped permissions to authenticate and authorize AI client requests. T…
India launched an AI-enabled voice chatbot named Samadhan Didi on May 30, 2026, to allow citizens to file grievances in their own language. Developed by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in c…
The greater the transformative change expected from AI, the more individuals should anticipate their future lives resembling an average global baseline rather than their current privileged positions, according to a new a…