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A US federal judge denied Chinese AI firm MiniMax's motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Disney and other Hollywood studios, ruling the company must face claims that its Hailuo AI service generat…
Parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were flagged as AI-generated by automated detection tools, according to analyses cited by The Verge. The Verge reports that the detector Pangram estimated 46 perce…
New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown announced the government has begun procurement and testing of an artificial intelligence tool to assist in reading breast screening mammograms, with a planned rollout from early 2…
Pope Leo XIV presented a new encyclical focused on artificial intelligence on May 25 in the Vatican's Synod Hall, with cardinals and Anthropic co-founder Ben Olah in attendance. The document addresses human dignity, the …
The Department of Homeland Security, FBI and other agencies are warning about rising anti-technology extremism as concerns over AI-driven job displacement and opposition to data center construction intensify. Intelligenc…
On May 25th, Pope Leo XIV personally presented his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, to an audience of cardinals, diplomats, and AI industry leaders in the Vatican's Synod Hall — a historically unprecedented move.…
World Labs launched AgentKit on March 17, 2026, a system that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let AI agents prove they are operated by a verified human without revealing personal identity. Coinbase released Agentic Wallets…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a public map tracking data center development across the United States, documenting 33 operational sites, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed facilities. The map, which …
DuckDuckGo's U.S. app installs spiked 30% in the week following Google I/O, with iOS installs peaking at 69.9% in a single day, as users sought alternatives to Google's AI-integrated search. However, the app users instal…
President Trump appointed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to a White House artificial intelligence advisory panel, according to a report that could not be verified through public records or official announcemen…
A Martinez mother lost approximately $5,400 after scammers used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter's voice during a fake kidnapping call in May. Deborah Del Mastro wired the money over five hours after hearing…
An East Bay mother, Deborah Del Mastro of Martinez, was scammed out of approximately $5,400 after callers used AI-generated audio to mimic her 37-year-old daughter's voice and claimed she had been kidnapped. The scammers…
Peter Thiel has delivered a series of private, invitation-only lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing attendees from academia, technology, and religious circles, according to Reuters and CNN. R…
Preventing malicious AI use faces jurisdictional gaps, as rogue states and lawless regions shield bad actors from existing laws. Open-source AI models complicate monitoring and denial efforts because they can run anywher…
Commencement speakers at multiple universities have been loudly booed by audiences for expressing optimism about artificial intelligence, reflecting growing public backlash against the technology's impact on job prospect…
AI job displacement is already occurring, with Anthropic's 2025 Economic Index showing that artificial intelligence is being used most heavily for complex, high-wage cognitive work such as software development, legal res…
Anthropic released its Mythos AI model to the public, eliminating the distinction between classified military-grade and commercial frontier AI. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis advanced his AGI timeline to 2029, citing AlphaP…
A Hacker News user reports anecdotal evidence that recent tech layoffs, attributed to AI productivity gains, are disproportionately affecting senior and junior developers while sparing mid-level engineers. The user specu…
Anthropic has appointed KiYoung Choi as Representative Director of Korea ahead of the opening of its Seoul office, the company announced. Choi, who previously served as Snowflake's General Manager for Korea and held lead…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed hyperscale AI data centers, overlaying them with community-submitted reports on local impacts. The proj…