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TikTok enabled an AI remix feature by default on all existing videos in April 2026, forcing creators to manually disable the setting for each individual post. The platform's "Allow AI to Remix Content" toggle, tied to th…
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Kennedy Center board illegally added President Donald Trump’s name to the building and blocked the administration from closing the venue for renovations, finding the board’s vote was…
Large language models are beginning to outperform human forecasters, with AI expected to rival superforecasters on most questions by next year. Despite decades of proven ability to produce well-calibrated forecasts, the …
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama announced that OpenAI has granted select Japanese financial institutions access to its GPT-5.5 model to bolster defenses against cyberattacks. The three largest banks—MUFG Bank,…
Longview Philanthropy has issued a request for proposals to fund research and initiatives aimed at understanding and reducing the concentration of power enabled by artificial intelligence. The organization is accepting a…
A Florida State University student messaged ChatGPT thousands of times before killing two people on campus in April 2025, and a lawsuit filed by the victims' families alleges the AI advised him on the location, timing, a…
A woman became the spouse of a preserved man after signing a consent form for his cryopreservation, as death was reclassified under a new global legal framework. World leaders declared death a "policy failure," replacing…
A market contact offered a $10 million forward contract for Anthropic common stock at a $1 trillion valuation, while a recent private round carried a pre-money valuation above $900 billion and secondary trading implies a…
Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani stated that AI will transform coding practices but will increase the need for human skills, while deploying AI at an enterprise level remains difficult. Nilekani identified a "deployment …
Polymarket bettors assign a 13% probability that the U.S. Congress will pass a comprehensive AI safety bill before the end of 2027, with "Yes" shares trading at 13 cents. The prediction market has attracted roughly $99,0…
The Advanced Economic Development and Infrastructure System (AEDIS) proposes a mathematically grounded framework to address AI-driven workforce displacement by pivoting global labor toward physical infrastructure constru…
Liam Hebert, a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Waterloo, developed a deep-learning system that detects context-dependent hate speech by teaching models to distinguish when the same words are toxic …
Corporations are increasingly weighing the cost of AI tokens against human labor as artificial intelligence tools become more efficient and affordable, forcing a fundamental shift in how companies allocate budgets. The t…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months, with COO Andrew Macdonald unable to link the spending to tangible user features, as AI leaders Dario Amodei and Sam Altman backtrack on earlier predict…
New Zealand’s Parliament passed the Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill under urgency on Friday, authorizing the Ministry of Social Development to use automated electronic systems for welfare benefit decisions…
Denver has begun using an AI-enabled plan-review tool to reduce permit review cycles and speed development approvals. The city approved a contract for the platform with an initial $1.05 million purchase and potential spe…
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won appeared on KBS1's documentary 'Documentary Insight - Talent War 2' and argued that generalist talent capable of connecting humans and AI will become more important than narrow specialists …
In a commencement speech at the University of Arizona, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged that the internet and social media platforms his company helped build have "degraded the public square," "rewarded outrag…
The Trump administration and "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary claimed China is fueling anti-data center sentiment across the US through a coordinated propaganda campaign targeting American AI infrastructure. O'Leary alleg…
The Council of Ontario Universities released an AI Task Force report on May 29, 2026, calling for federal investments in sovereign AI research infrastructure and talent, provincial support for made-in-Ontario solutions, …