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German economist Hans-Werner Sinn's book "The Green Paradox" argues that environmental policies which become stricter over time act as an announced expropriation for fossil fuel owners, prompting them to accelerate resou…
Anthropic and OpenAI are ending subsidized AI token pricing as the companies prepare for IPOs later this year, with Claude Opus 4.7 maintaining the same $5/$25 per million token rate while a new tokenizer increases outpu…
A disgruntled security researcher who claims Microsoft humiliated him has threatened to release a "bone shattering drop" of zero-day vulnerabilities, with six flaws already disclosed and three under active exploitation. …
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the AI Alliance Network at the AI Journey conference in Moscow, a coalition connecting national AI associations from BRICS nations and other countries to pool resources for coll…
A newly created intelligence agency of Congress, the U.S. Capitol Police Intelligence Services Bureau, issued an internal report in April warning that legislators face potential threats from public opposition to artifici…
Conservative groups and the Media Research Center told Fox News that AI chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic exhibit left-wing bias in their responses, citing studies that found ChatGPT disputed a political assass…
AWS announced the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub, a tool designed to help Site Reliability Engineers and development teams standardize resilience policies, identify failure modes, and demonstrate compliance across…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," declares artificial intelligence the defining "new thing" of the modern age and critiques the economic and political systems that produced it. The document, release…
A coalition of AI researchers, journalists, and critical scholars has published "The AI Resist List," a catalog of global movements resisting large-scale generative AI systems developed by companies they call "empires." …
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch rejected Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm” artificial intelligence, arguing Europe must develop its own advanced AI capabilities to counter threats from rivals and adversaries. Mensch’s comments c…
Comedian Conan O’Brien delivered Harvard University’s commencement address Thursday, mixing humor with criticism of the Trump administration’s policies on immigration and empathy as the Ivy League school faces mounting l…
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection will hold a hearing on June 4 examining how frontier AI models impact cybersecurity, including both defensive benefits and offensive…
The European Union is pursuing new crisis powers that would allow authorities to seize control of semiconductor supply chains during emergencies. The bloc is also seeking to impose new restrictions on Chinese imports of …
Elon Musk stated on X that SpaceX has not committed to leasing its Colossus data center to Anthropic for multiple years, describing the arrangement as a 180-day lease with 90-day mutual cancellation rights. This contradi…
Naked Capitalism published an essay arguing that the current AI-driven data center build-out could be repurposed as infrastructure for economic tokenization and state surveillance if AI demand falls short. The piece warn…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new financing, valuing the artificial intelligence start-up at $900 billion and surpassing OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion to become the world’s most valuable A.I. company. The San…
Vice President JD Vance warned graduating Air Force cadets on Thursday that artificial intelligence must not supersede human judgment in warfare, telling them to "never submit to" technology. Vance's commencement address…
Canadian entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary predicted that the rapid rise of artificial intelligence could trigger an economic depression by 2028, driven by widespread unemployment and geopolitical conflicts. O’Leary argued that…
The Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber, its first employee and lead developer of MediaWiki since 2003, and disbanded the entire Community Tech team in mid-May, laying off mostly union organizers who built tools req…
AI-powered scams are now enabling fraudsters to industrialize "pig butchering" schemes, using large language models to manage thousands of parallel conversations, voice synthesis to clone victims' relatives, and automati…