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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 …
Organizations deploying AI agents face critical governance failures when they fail to establish separate identities, delegation models, and permission boundaries for those agents. Without a dedicated agent identity and a…
A Google software engineer was charged with insider trading on Polymarket, where he allegedly made over $1 million betting that singer D4vd would be the most-searched person of 2025 using confidential company data. Miche…
The US Justice Department is subpoenaing Reddit and X for the names, addresses, and banking information of at least two anonymous users who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics, escalating efforts to id…
Geordie AI's $30 million Series A funding signals that enterprise adoption of agentic AI is outpacing security controls, creating a new crisis for platform engineers in 2026. Autonomous AI agents that can plan and execut…
Super Micro Computer shares surged Tuesday on heavy call option volume after the company announced it collaborated with Taiwanese authorities to prevent its servers from being illegally diverted to China, leading to thre…
Three structural trends—the sociotechnical transformation of AI, the political economy of the AI investment bubble, and the financial crisis in UK higher education—are converging to destabilize universities. The declinin…
Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for AI-driven job losses in European banking, now projecting that up to 20% of the sector's workforce — roughly 400,000 roles — could be eliminated by 2030 as lenders deploy genera…
Enterprise adoption of claw-style AI agents is accelerating, but governance infrastructure has not kept pace with the deployment of these autonomous systems. Organizations are deploying AI agents capable of independent a…