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The OpenAI Foundation announced a $250 million commitment Wednesday to fund grants and partnerships aimed at preparing the economy for disruption caused by artificial intelligence. The initiative will focus on understand…
In 2026, the U.S. economy is experiencing strong expansion despite slowing job growth, suggesting rising productivity, yet official productivity measures have barely budged and even slowed in the first quarter. Economist…
Pope Leo XIV published his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on Monday, warning that artificial intelligence development cannot be left to wealthy industry leaders and must instead involve workers, teachers, scientists an…
Lelu has launched an open-source authorization engine designed specifically for autonomous AI agents, providing confidence-aware gating, human-in-the-loop review, and policy-driven authorization. The tool allows develope…
Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* was not written by artificial intelligence, according to critics of recent claims on LessWrong that the document was largely AI-generated. The Vatican has the resour…
CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria told Bard College graduates that humans still hold a competitive advantage over artificial intelligence, urging them to focus on what makes human intelligence distinc…
Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Natoma, a provider of a centralized Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway, to bring governed agentic access to enterprise customers. The acquisition aims to address shadow AI risk…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has deployed as many as 46 mobile gas turbines at its data center in Southaven, Mississippi, according to state records cited by Canary Media. SpaceX disclosed approximatel…
Connecticut enacted SB 5 on May 11, 2026, a 39-section law that creates cross-cutting artificial intelligence requirements covering companion chatbots, automated employment decision tools, synthetic-content provenance, a…
Business Insider published an opinion piece on May 27, 2026, characterizing recent public comments from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Pope Leo as "reasonable" and as offering hope for an AI "middle ground." The piece fra…
On 13 May 2026, Meta launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI for WhatsApp, processing conversations inside a hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environment to prevent Meta from reading chat contents. The feature distinguishe…
The Associated Press and OpenAI have expanded their partnership, with OpenAI licensing AP's election data through the 2028 U.S. elections to provide vote counts for ChatGPT users. The deal aims to improve the reliability…
Police in China are now patrolling with second-generation smart glasses that scan crowds, match faces to government databases, and identify individuals in milliseconds, with claimed accuracy rates between 95% and 99.5%. …
Enterprises relying on network policies, API gateways, and role-based access control (RBAC) for AI agent accountability face critical gaps, as these tools were designed for deterministic, human-driven workloads rather th…
OpenAI is partnering with The Associated Press and Democracy Works to provide live vote counts and reliable voting information, aiming to combat AI-driven election misinformation ahead of upcoming elections in the US and…
Dozens of residents, students and family members protested outside Fairfield City Hall on Tuesday evening before a city council meeting, demanding accountability for the May 20 arrest of a Fairfield High School student c…
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding jobs. Cherny, who has…
OpenAI is prohibiting political advertisements on its platform during the current election cycle, explicitly banning ads that promote or oppose political figures, ballot measures, or socially contested issues. The policy…
Italy's Lombardy region has imposed a 200% tax penalty on data center construction in agricultural zones and a 100% tax in rural areas, while exempting brownfield industrial sites from additional charges. The policy, ann…
YouTube will begin automatically labeling AI-generated videos with more prominent markers, moving beyond its previous system that relied entirely on uploaders to disclose AI use. The platform will use "new internal signa…