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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, …
Flathub, a major Linux application distribution platform, has updated its generative AI policy to explicitly ban AI-generated apps and submissions, including code, documentation, and automated pull requests. The new rule…
South Gyeongsang Province gubernatorial candidates are centering their campaign pledges on the booming aerospace and defense industries, promising to make the region a global hub for advanced technologies. Democratic Par…
AI search personalization is creating an "answer bubble" where users receive different AI-generated responses to the same query without understanding why, according to a developer's analysis. The system can use hidden co…
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter refused to drop out of California's gubernatorial primary, splitting the Democratic vote and likely allowing Republican Steve Hilton to advance to the general e…
Guidewire President John Mullen told Insurance Innovation Reporter that insurers must create an operating context enabling artificial intelligence to act reliably and in accordance with insurance rules, calling AI a "gen…
Okta has developed a new tool that allows customers to instantly terminate rogue AI agents, addressing growing enterprise concerns about uncontrolled autonomous software. CEO Todd McKinnon confirmed that clients includin…
A developer built BiasLens, a free tool that scans job rejection letters for documented discrimination patterns under US employment law in 30 seconds. The hardest engineering challenge was forcing the AI to accurately re…
A new 2026 study from SmartAsset ranks Washington as the top U.S. state for AI adoption, driven by the highest number of AI and data center jobs per capita at 289.8 per 100,000 residents and a 22.4% workplace adoption ra…
Author and illustrator Loryn Brantz is publicly denouncing BuzzFeed and Amazon after the companies licensed her "Good Advice Cupcake" character, Cuppy, to Prime Video for an AI-animated series without her involvement. Br…
San Jose City Council will consider placing a ranked choice voting charter amendment on the November ballot, aiming to cut costs associated with special elections to fill mid-term vacancies. The proposal, driven by a $50…
Christy McCormick, vice chair of the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, praised Orange County's election administration as a national model during a recent tour of the registrar's office. The Republican official highl…
Gartner predicts that 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents by 2026 due to security risks and operational failures. The forecast highlights growing concerns over AI reliability and governanc…
Flathub, the primary repository for Flatpak applications, has implemented a new policy banning the use of AI-generated code and AI-assisted submissions for all applications, including manifests, build scripts, and pull r…
Companies aggressively cutting jobs in the name of AI are making a strategic error, with 55% of those that made AI-linked redundancies later admitting the decisions were wrong. High-profile cases like Klarna and Salesfor…
Hundreds of contract workers employed by Covalen, a Dublin-based firm that provides content moderation and AI data labeling for Meta, staged a protest Friday outside Meta’s European headquarters in Dublin. The workers ar…
Dell Technologies shares surged over 30% on Friday after the company reported strong first-quarter growth in artificial-intelligence hardware and secured a $9.7 billion contract with the Pentagon to provide software for …
A new economic measurement problem called "AI Dark Output" threatens to obscure the majority of AI-generated economic activity, as national statistics fail to capture value produced by artificial intelligence in the serv…