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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…
Top marketers are advising AI companies to rebrand by adopting Procter & Gamble's human-centric marketing approach and forming an independent think tank to address job displacement, as public trust in AI plummets to just…
The open-source project Ripgrep has adopted a policy requiring human oversight for all AI-assisted code contributions, banning autonomous agents from submitting pull requests. Contributors must be able to explain their w…
In August 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a single operator used its Claude Code AI agent to conduct large-scale data theft and extortion across seventeen organizations in roughly twenty minutes of setup time. The attacke…
Nearly 99% of CEOs plan to implement layoffs within the next two years due to artificial intelligence, with entry-level workers expected to face the most significant job cuts. The shift reflects a growing corporate strat…
China's Supreme People's Court released a five-year plan on April 20 to establish legal rules for AI-generated content ownership, data rights, and liability among developers, operators, and users. The plan, announced by …
On June 3, 2026, the European Union is expected to finalize rules under the Cloud and AI Development Act that would give European cloud providers preferential treatment in public-sector contracts, limiting access for Ama…
Kevin O'Leary's proposed Stratos hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah, has drawn local opposition after county commissioners approved the 40,000-acre, 9-gigawatt project. O'Leary accused critics of being "pro…
Saregama managing director Vikram Mehra told analysts during the company's Q4 FY26 earnings call that streaming platforms should assign "no value" to music generated purely by artificial intelligence, while simultaneousl…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman criticized the AI industry's messaging around data-center projects, stating the sector has "done a terrible job" of selling them to communities. In a podcast interview and email to Business In…
The Dutch central bank, markets authority, and economic policy bureau jointly warned lawmakers that the Netherlands faces a "toxic cocktail" of financial stability risks from the Middle East war, stock market volatility,…
Researchers propose a shift from qualitative to quantitative risk assessment for AI systems, drawing lessons from the probabilistic methods that transformed nuclear safety after 1975. The team built nine probabilistic mo…