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Kazakhstan has declared 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, establishing a dedicated AI ministry in 2025 and advancing a comprehensive AI law, computing infrastructure, and education initiat…
A developer argues that coding agents should not hold write credentials, proposing a system where agents submit structured intents rather than directly creating external impact. The approach separates intent from impact …
Wall Street is aggressively promoting initial public offerings for high-profile private companies including SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, urging retail investors to buy in at lofty valuations. Historical data, however, …
Corporate customers are incurring unexpectedly high costs from unmonitored AI token usage, with one company burning through a very large sum in a single month after failing to limit employee access to Anthropic's Claude.…
Eight new state data privacy laws taking effect in 2025 will impact businesses nationwide, regardless of location, as state attorneys general escalate enforcement actions. California, Texas, and other states have establi…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* warns that artificial intelligence threatens to dominate humanity and calls for regulatory tools to curb its distorting effects on society. The document goes beyond cri…
Many CEOs are publicly urging employees to adopt AI tools through trainings and performance metrics, even as some companies cite the technology when cutting jobs. Meta laid off about 8,000 employees this month while movi…
Taylor Swift's trademark filings in April 2026, covering short audio clips of her voice and visual likeness, expose a gap in AI law that extends beyond copyright protections. While most AI-related litigation has focused …
On Feb. 10, 2026, an 18-year-old woman killed eight people and herself in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, after OpenAI flagged her ChatGPT conversations for violent content but did not notify law enfo…
Pope Leo XIV released his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, positioning the Catholic Church's response to artificial intelligence as a parallel to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical "Rerum Novarum," which ad…
Fireblocks Agentic Payments introduces a state-log approach for handling paid requests that remain on hold, distinguishing between payment verification and fulfillment decisions. The system records five key states—402 qu…
London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures to build a self-improving AI platform for scientific discovery. The company's Far…
The AI-detection tool Pangram has become the standard for identifying AI-generated text, leading to high-profile accusations against a major publisher's novel, articles in The New York Times, award-winning short stories,…
Attackers are using shared content features on ChatGPT and Claude to host malware delivery pages on trusted domains, distributing the malicious links through sponsored malvertising ads on search engines. The campaigns ta…
Chevron’s Richmond refinery faces a July 21, 2026 deadline to comply with local emissions limits under a 2024 settlement with the Bay Area Air District. The agreement requires Chevron to pay at least $20 million into a C…
Wikipedia editors are planning a strike and banner sabotage following the Wikimedia Foundation’s layoffs, which disbanded the team responsible for community-requested fixes and moderation tools. The revolt threatens to d…
Millville, New Jersey city commissioners voted to ban data centers within city limits, blocking a proposed 2.6-million-square-foot facility. The decision, hailed by opponents as the largest data center project halted in …
The G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting has agreed on shared language defining open-source AI, open weights AI, and related terms ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit in Evian, France. The adopted framework categorizes A…
Mistral AI hosted its first summit in Paris on Thursday, drawing executives from SAP, BNP Paribas, Accenture, and Airbus to Le Carrousel du Louvre, where the French startup positioned itself as Europe's answer to America…
The Russian-language ransomware group Play claimed on Monday that it hacked MyPillow and stole sensitive data including client documents, payroll, and financial records, posting the claim on its dark-web leak site. MyPil…