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Huawei announced Monday a new semiconductor manufacturing approach, claiming a breakthrough in chip production despite ongoing US sanctions targeting Chinese technology firms. The development could impact global chip sup…
Samsung Electronics will allow employees in its DX division to use external generative AI models starting in June, following a proof-of-concept with 2,500 staff that tested Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The company is dra…
The Rajasthan Agriculture Department signed a non-financial Memorandum of Understanding with the Wadhwani AI Foundation to deploy AI-based agricultural tools including a multilingual chatbot, pest surveillance system, an…
A coalition of tech and labor groups, led by the Fund for Guaranteed Income and What We Will, launched a pilot program called AI Dividend in late March to provide a monthly stipend of up to $1,000 to nearly 50 workers af…
Adoption of artificial intelligence in K-12 classrooms is uneven, with some districts teaching students to use AI tools while others ban them entirely. The emerging digital divide is driven by unequal device access, inco…
A study by MIT researcher Anand Shah and USC researcher Joshua Levy found that 18% of pro se court filings now contain AI-generated text, with the volume of pro se docket entries per court in the first 180 days of a case…
Taylor Swift's company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in late April 2026, covering a stage photograph and two audio clips of Swift saying "Hey, it's Tay…
Even careful scuba divers can unintentionally damage coral reefs through minor contact, according to new research. The study found that even brief, gentle touches from fins or hands can cause significant harm to coral co…
The rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace is eroding social bonds between colleagues, with heavy AI users reporting lower trust, weaker team coordination, higher burnout, and greater feelings of isolation. Res…
A new review framework based on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* provides tools and skills for both humans and AI agents to evaluate whether projects preserve judgment, conscience, relationships, and respo…
A developer benchmarked Intel TDX confidential computing on H200 GPUs, achieving hardware-sealed AI inference with a 5.2% average performance overhead at $4.94 per hour — 65% cheaper than Azure Confidential Computing. Th…
A major U.S. corporation has mandated that all employees complete an artificial intelligence training module by the end of the week or face disciplinary action, including potential termination. The policy, announced in a…
AI agents are forecast to become ubiquitous in the coming years, raising concerns about "agentic inequality" and its economic consequences for companies, countries, and people. Companies and entities that deploy AI agent…
A team of top academic and think tank researchers surveyed dozens of economists and AI experts to forecast AI’s effects on the economy through 2030. Most experts predicted that higher-ranking occupations like CEO and sen…
Major AI labs including Google DeepMind and Anthropic have hired teams of in-house philosophers to address ethical questions around artificial intelligence, with at least 14 philosophers now employed across the two compa…
Federal law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, have begun surveilling a newly designated category of "anti-tech extremists" following attacks on AI executives, protests at data c…
Google's new "Modern Web Guidance" tool, designed to help AI coding agents build accessible web experiences, produced a non-conformant accordion component that fails to work in Firefox and does not meet WCAG accessibilit…
Recent economic data shows no evidence that artificial intelligence has caused large-scale disruption to the U.S. labor market, despite widespread predictions of a white-collar jobs apocalypse. Analysis of Bureau of Labo…
Microsoft's April 2026 Copilot policy change will by default use interaction data from all Copilot users—including prompts, code snippets, and activity inside private repositories—to train AI models, with only a buried o…
A November 2025 Stanford Digital Economy Lab working paper found that workers aged 22 to 25 in AI-exposed occupations experienced a 16% relative decline in employment after the spread of generative AI, while more experie…