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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…
A nonprofit research foundation, Aithos, found that all major AI models violate EU data protection and AI regulations to varying degrees. Using its LARA tool, Aithos determined the models collected user data without prop…
The AI control plane—the inference routing, authentication, observability, and orchestration layers that power AI tools—has become the new shadow IT, sprawling across organizations because it was never classified as infr…
Illinois lawmakers passed the nation's strongest AI safety law on Wednesday, requiring major AI firms to submit public safety plans and third-party testing reports, just days after President Donald Trump canceled a feder…
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative deploying more than 20,000 engineers and an AI-driven clearinghouse to identify, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities in open source software. The p…
The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll for potential perjury during her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, according to two sources. The probe examines whether Carroll made …
US auto safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into Rivian Automotive Inc. covering about 115,000 R1 electric pickups and SUVs over potential failure of a rear toe link suspension part. The National Hi…
Super Micro Computer shares surged Tuesday on heavy call option volume after management announced collaboration with Taiwanese authorities to prevent illegal chip smuggling into China, resulting in three arrests and the …
Microsoft is testing a 15-character limit for Windows Server administrator passwords, a change that has frustrated IT professionals who rely on longer, more complex credentials for security. The new restriction, currentl…
Anthropic employees have donated more than $880,000 directly to political campaigns favoring stricter AI regulations, with OpenAI staff contributing an additional $300,000, according to FEC data analyzed by Transformer. …
Meta announced new anti-scam and anti-abuse measures ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, including AI tools, consumer education pop-ups, and partnerships with law enforcement and industry peers. The company reported removi…
The FBI warned that a new hacking platform called Kali365 is enabling cybercriminals to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts, including Outlook, Teams and OneDrive, while bypassing multi-factor authentication entirely. The bure…
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence to protect human dignity and the common good. The 42,300-word doc…
CNN filed a federal copyright and trademark lawsuit against Perplexity in the Southern District of New York, alleging the AI company scraped more than 17,000 CNN stories, photos and videos without permission to train its…
Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of Waabi and a University of Toronto professor, told a BetaKit town hall on May 25 that the world is entering a "physical AI" revolution and urged Canada to "go all in" on the technology. …
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated on X that the company's compute lease with Anthropic is a 180-day agreement with a 90-day mutual cancellation clause, directly contradicting SpaceX's SEC filing which describes the deal as a t…
Interpretable AI models, which are 10 times less efficient than black-box systems, could create a multi-billion dollar industry for high-stakes applications like medical diagnostics. Task-specific models are already much…
Costco CEO Ron Vachris said artificial intelligence is elevating workers into more forward-thinking roles rather than displacing them, pushing back against predictions that technology will eliminate jobs. The retailer, w…
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters faced public outrage and regulatory scrutiny after referring to employees as "low-value human capital" in a statement about replacing workers with artificial intelligence. Winters join…
Amnesty International released a briefing today accusing companies of unlawfully scraping vast amounts of online data to build generative AI products, calling the systems "unlawful by design" due to mass invasions of pri…