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The Metropolitan Police has published a £300 million technology procurement list after London's deputy mayor blocked a contract worth up to £50 million with data analytics firm Palantir. The mayor's office stated the for…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by University of Arizona graduates after telling them their task is to help shape AI, with similar jeers occurring at commencements at the University of Central Florida and Middle…
California Governor Gavin Newsom's proposed $349.4 billion budget for 2026-27 faces mounting opposition from education and healthcare advocates over spending cuts, despite his claims of structural balance. The budget pro…
The internet is becoming increasingly hostile to human users as bots proliferate, with CAPTCHAs, multi-factor authentication, and proof-of-work systems failing to distinguish legitimate users from automated agents. The f…
Visa executive Olaseni Alabede told PYMNTS that agentic commerce represents the next phase of eCommerce and mobile payments, urging acquirers to modify existing payment infrastructure instead of creating separate systems…
Ketch launched the Ketch Agent Network, a multi-agent orchestration layer designed to automate enterprise privacy programs by reasoning across legal obligations, policies, and operational data. The system offers agentic …
Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg said at the SXSW Film & TV Festival that he opposes AI replacing creative individuals and has not used AI in any of his films, according to Yahoo Entertainment. Netflix has separat…
Colorado Governor Jared Polis commuted the nine-year prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a convicted election denier who illegally allowed unauthorized access to voting equipment and lied to cover up…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing, placing him alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and other global business leaders. The ap…
China is developing a futures market for artificial intelligence tokens, according to sources, as the country accelerates efforts to compete with the United States in the AI sector. The initiative aims to create a regula…
OpenAI has begun rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, with software companies making up 34% of the ad placements analyzed by adtech firms, according to data reviewed by Business Insider. The ads, which currently appear…
Microsoft released an open-source Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) to enforce policy-based controls on AI agents, addressing surging API usage and availability issues caused by automated agent queries. The toolkit evaluate…
Microsoft's U.S. AI Diffusion Report, released Tuesday, found that Texas ranks fourth nationally in AI adoption at 35.4%, surpassing California at 34.1% and New York at 32.9%. The data also revealed a 16.8 percentage poi…
UK spy chief Anne Keast-Butler called artificial intelligence an "unstoppable force" that is reconfiguring warfare and enabling technology to be weaponized below the threshold of traditional conflict. The GCHQ director w…
The European Union must force tech companies to disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, the bloc’s environment agency chief said, as Brussels aims to triple data center capacity within seven years to com…
Enterprise AI companies that bet on customer data as a competitive advantage are discovering the strategy is failing, as privacy regulations, contractual restrictions, and synthetic data make the so-called "data moat" un…
The Vancouver School Board will provide Microsoft Copilot AI chatbot accounts to high school students aged 13 and up, partnering with Microsoft Canada to integrate the tool into classrooms. Associate superintendent Pedro…
The European Union's moderation watchdog reported that social media platforms are reluctant to remove hate speech, while simultaneously engaging in excessive censorship and refusing to provide evidence for account bans. …
Springer's journal AI and Ethics issued a call for papers for a topical collection on AI resistance, refusal, reclamation, and reimagining, with a deadline of July 31. The collection aims to include critical voices on AI…
Ketch has launched the Ketch Agent Network, a multi-agent AI orchestration layer designed to manage enterprise privacy programs by continuously reasoning across legal obligations, internal policies, and operational reali…