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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…
The National Park Service is using at least $67 million in entrance fees collected from visitors to national parks to fund President Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., beautification projects, a New York Times analysis of …
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem warned that policymakers cannot rely on artificial intelligence-driven productivity gains to reduce inflation, arguing the projected boom has not materialized i…
AI-generated videos depicting Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt as Batman and other heroic figures have sparked backlash from opponents and raised legal questions about AI political content under California law…
At least 14 companies, including Angi, Atlassian, and Block, have announced layoffs citing AI-driven efficiency improvements as a primary reason for workforce reductions. A March report from Challenger, Gray, and Christm…
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative combining new AI capabilities and a global team of over 20,000 engineers to secure open source software for enterprises. The project establishes a trus…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his previous warnings that artificial intelligence would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," now saying he was "pretty wrong" about an AI jobs apocalypse. The messaging…
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem warned against relying on artificial intelligence to reduce inflation, stating it is "too early to outsource" the central bank's inflation-control responsibilit…
Communities across the United States are being transformed into "AI Exclusion Zones" as data centers for artificial intelligence operations are built in suburban and rural areas without resident consent, subjecting neigh…
The European Union fined Chinese online retailer Temu $232 million on Thursday for failing to protect consumers from illegal products, including toxic toys and unsafe electronics, in violation of the bloc's Digital Servi…