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China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified after Beijing blocked…
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, defends human imperfection as a source of dignity and warns against outsourcing human capabilities to artificial intelligence. The document argues that human limitati…
Henry Farell argued at a Blavatnik School of Government talk that AI should be understood as a "lossy information aggregation tool," comparing it to historical systems like state bureaucracies and markets. Farell critici…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated four-term U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff, making Cornyn the first Texas GOP senator to lose a renomination bid. President Donald Trump endorsed Pax…
YouTube will automatically label videos containing significant photorealistic AI-generated content, moving from voluntary creator disclosure to automated detection. The labels will appear prominently in video description…
South Africa holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves critical to AI infrastructure and hosts the continent's largest data center market, giving it unique leverage over major technology companies. …
YouTube is relocating AI disclosure labels on Shorts and long-form videos to appear directly below the video player and as an overlay on Shorts, making them more visible to viewers. The platform is also rolling out new i…
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten will call for restricting classroom computer use until third grade, banning student-facing AI in elementary schools, and prohibiting social companion chatbots fo…
YouTube will begin automatically applying labels to videos its systems detect as containing "significant photorealistic AI use," moving the disclosure from the expanded description to a more prominent position below the …
YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI content, moving beyond its previous policy of relying solely on creator disclosures. The company announced Wednesday that its in…
The Jerusalem Post published an op-ed on May 27, 2026, by Haim Bibas, chairman of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel, declaring smart cities a top strategic interest for the State of Israel. Israeli municipali…
Unionized tech workers at The New York Times filed grievances and an unfair labor practice charge alleging the company violated their collective bargaining agreement by deploying internal AI tools that track employee act…
Employees use an average of three to five AI tools daily, with 80% of employees running unapproved generative AI applications at work, according to research from Adaptive Security cited by BleepingComputer. Only 12% of c…
Taiwan has launched an investigation into an alleged smuggling operation that used Japan as a transit hub to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips to China. Three suspects were detained on May 21, and authorities seized appr…
The Trump Administration announced it will award more than $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies, including $1.375 billion to IBM and GlobalFoundries for quantum foundries, as part of a national push to secure U…
Sam Altman of OpenAI orchestrated a multibillion-dollar strategic miscalculation by convincing the market that AI is an intelligent mind capable of running global commerce, when it is actually an expensive, error-prone p…
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Reform party both advocate for integrating artificial intelligence into government operations, but they disagree sharply on its purpose. Blair calls for AI-driven modernization…
North Korea launched a series of missile tests on May 26, including AI-guided cruise missiles with a 100-kilometer range, as leader Kim Jong Un personally supervised the exercises. North Korean state-sponsored hacking gr…
Unionized tech employees at The New York Times have accused management of violating their contract by using artificial intelligence tools to monitor worker performance and activity. The Tech Guild, representing about 700…
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical letter on Monday warning that artificial intelligence "touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom" and is never a purely technical matter. The document, unveiled alongside An…