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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…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a $25 million contract for biometric scanning technology that will allow the agency to monitor individuals' eyes and other physical characteristics. The deal aim…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned the Ethereum ecosystem against following OpenAI's path toward centralization during his keynote at EthCC 2025 in Cannes, France on July 2. Buterin flagged specific risks includi…
Digital Insurance reported on May 29, 2026 that artificial intelligence is accelerating fraud and cyber risks for insurers, prompting a shift toward breach-resilience strategies. The Information Security Forum advised or…
The Zig Software Foundation has banned all AI-assisted contributions to the Zig programming language codebase, prohibiting code generated, paraphrased, edited, brainstormed, or debugged by large language models. Zig pres…
A wave of near-identical AI-generated songs, derived from the 2019 track "Angels Above Me" by Stick Figure, has flooded streaming platforms, accruing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and reaching No. 1 on iTunes…
Secret loyalties in AI systems could enable a small group of actors to concentrate power or stage a coup, according to a new analysis. Frontier AI company executives and state actors are best positioned to secretly train…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched a statewide online poll to gather public input on how artificial intelligence is impacting residents' jobs and daily lives. The survey, part of the state's "Engaged California" i…
San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary C. Daly warned that state-level AI regulations could disproportionately burden startups and hinder innovation, slowing the technology's potential to deliver sustained producti…
The UK Home Office will deploy an AI age estimation tool at the country's borders from next year to detect adult migrants posing as children, awarding a £322,000 contract to Akhter Computers Ltd for development and testi…
Data centers marketed as neutral infrastructure for cloud computing and AI workloads are increasingly powering government surveillance networks that civil liberties advocates describe as a "digital panopticon." DHS-backe…
Tyler Cowen's Friday assorted links post on May 29, 2026, covers topics including economies of scale in homebuilding, Peter Thiel's involvement in Argentina, and a New York Times interview with Paul McCartney. The collec…
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that executives pushing AI to replace workers often lack understanding of those jobs, calling it "AI psychosis." ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 202…