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CNN filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the startup’s AI tools produce verbatim copies of the network’s journalism and byp…
OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing for initial public offerings later this year, with OpenAI targeting September and Anthropic eyeing October or later, as the two AI giants seek to go public amid economic headwinds. Open…
Inference costs dropped 80% in 2026, but total AI spending rose as agentic systems consumed far more tokens than chat-based AI. Regulation went live, physical AI left the lab, and an invisible divide opened between organ…
The White House indefinitely postponed its anticipated AI executive order, with David Sacks and others intervening to effectively kill the directive except for work on securing critical infrastructure, leaving U.S. AI po…
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem warned that betting on artificial intelligence to reduce inflation is a risky strategy. Musalem stated that while AI could boost productivity over time, its nea…
Enterprise AI rollouts have been temporarily halted as executives at Fidelity Investments and EY discovered that generative AI tools were surfacing vast amounts of long-forgotten, unsecured data from SharePoint sites and…
CNN filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York court Thursday, alleging the startup’s AI tools generate “verbatim” copies of its articles and provide users with content locked behind CNN’s subscription paywall. The…
Meta has unexpectedly increased funding to its Oversight Board, providing a new lifeline after months of uncertainty about the body's future. The company's decision to boost financial support for the independent content …
Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation's dAI team co-hosted the first builder session for ERC-8183, a proposed standard called "Agentic Commerce" that introduces a permissionless escrow system for autonomous AI ag…
Massachusetts leaders are pitching the state as a haven for AI talent fleeing California's proposed ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires' assets. Half of the 20 most valuable venture-…
Microsoft’s 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat have been recertified under ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for the second consecutive year, with an independent auditor reporting zero non-conformities and zero improvement observations. The …
QEMU, the processor emulator critical to the Linux virtualization stack, is revising its policy to allow some AI and LLM-generated contributions after previously banning them outright. Red Hat virtualization engineer Pao…
Anthropic announced plans to expand its European workforce after opening a new office in Milan. The AI company will increase hiring across the region to support growing demand for its technology. The expansion signals An…
A report commissioned by Friends of the Earth Ireland and Beyond Fossil Fuels found that datacentres in Ireland used 22% of the country's electricity last year, more than all urban homes combined, adding a cumulative ave…
Superintelligence developed by US companies and run on US data centers will massively boost US military and economic power, potentially leaving middle powers like the UK, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan economical…
Taylor Swift's management company, TAS Rights Management, filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering two short audio clips of her voice and an image of her onstage. The filings,…
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch warned Europe has roughly two years to build independent AI infrastructure or risk becoming a "vassal state" under US influence. The French startup is constructing a 10-megawatt data center s…
Pope Leo XIV published *Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence* in May 2026, the first papal document dedicated entirely to AI. The 235-page encyclical distributes re…
CNN sued AI company Perplexity on Thursday, alleging it engaged in "massive copyright infringement" by scraping more than 17,000 of the network's stories, photos, and videos without permission to train its products. The …
New York Federal Reserve President John C. Williams warned that robust business investment, driven predominantly by AI-related outlays, is propping up the U.S. economy as consumer spending, residential construction, and …