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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…
Morgan Stanley projects European banks will eliminate more than 200,000 jobs by 2030, representing roughly 10% of the sector's workforce, as artificial intelligence and digitalization reshape back-office operations, risk…
Amid ongoing layoffs and the AI boom, technology workers are being urged to form unions to regain leverage against companies that resent high developer salaries. The call to organize comes as the job market shifts, with …
The Vatican released the encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, urging governments to slow and regulate artificial intelligence development while protecting workers, children, and human control over weapons. T…
A coordinated takedown of the GlassWorm malware campaign on May 26 disrupted infrastructure poisoning hundreds of open-source repositories, but defenders face an uphill battle as attackers quickly reconstitute operations…
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, over potential perjury in her civil lawsuits against…
OpenAI announced a series of safeguards for ChatGPT ahead of the 2026 election cycle to combat AI-generated election misinformation. The company will focus on providing voting information, supporting cybersecurity defend…
OpenAI announced on May 21 it will supply its specialized GPT-5.5-Cyber model to Japan’s three megabanks and the Japanese government for cybersecurity defense. The deployment follows Anthropic’s release of Claude Mythos …