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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…
A new Public Policy Institute of California poll shows Democrat Xavier Becerra leading the California governor's race with 23% support among likely voters, followed by Republican Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco at 2…
Vice President JD Vance told Air Force Academy graduates Thursday that he worries "the most" about artificial intelligence changing warfare, warning that decisions over life and death "must be made by humans and not mach…
Nearly nine in ten chief economists expect global growth to weaken over the next 12 months, according to a World Economic Forum survey published May 28, 2026. The survey found 94% expect global inflation to rise, driven …
Fairfield city leaders on Tuesday night pledged a transparent, independent investigation into the May 20 arrest of a Fairfield High School student by Officer Bianca Camacho, an incident captured on viral video that has s…
A new report from Grundfos warns that Europe's plan to triple datacenter capacity by 2035 is threatened by water and power shortages, with electricity demand projected to jump from 10 GW to 35 GW by 2030. Multiple EU gov…
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX’s agreement with AI company Anthropic to lease computing power at the Colossus data center is only a 180-day lease with a 90-day mutual cancellation clause, contradicting earlier reports o…
Quality-adjusted AI production in the United States grew at over 2,000 percent per year in 2024 and 2025, driven by data-center expansion, hardware efficiency, and algorithmic progress. Preliminary estimates place nomina…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence could arrive by 2030, possibly as soon as 2029, warning that society has only a few years to prepare. In an interview with Axios, Hassabis described…
Author Brett Scott argues that Palantir Technologies should be renamed Orthanc Inc., drawing a direct parallel between the data-mining firm and the dark tower of the wizard Saruman in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Ri…