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A French engineer has launched a protest campaign against AWS, Google, and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and multilingual content. The unusual crusade targets the dominance of major cloud p…
Workers across industries face growing risk of job displacement as artificial intelligence transforms the workplace, with the World Economic Forum estimating 92 million jobs could be eliminated by 2030. Career experts ad…
Artificial intelligence tools are flooding U.S. federal court dockets with lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, overwhelming an already overburdened system. In Minnesota, Donald Sauve used ChatGPT and Claude to …
A new theory of accountability boundaries in agentic AI ecosystems identifies when AI capabilities can be safely modularized across organizations and when they must remain integrated. The framework introduces "accountabi…
Researchers have introduced the Foundation Protocol (FP), a graph-first coordination layer designed to manage interactions among autonomous agents, tools, humans, and institutions in an emerging human-AI society. The pro…
Researchers have developed a red-teaming framework to measure the political steerability of open-source large language models (LLMs), finding that these models are more willing to generate left-leaning social media conte…
Researchers introduced Ontological Knowledge Blocks (OKBs), a programmable governance infrastructure that compiles regulatory obligations into machine-checkable constraints over structured evidence graphs, addressing the…
GitHub has made repository Copilot cloud agent configuration accessible through its REST API, enabling platform and security teams to programmatically audit settings like MCP servers, enabled tools, Actions workflow poli…
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks killed a draft AI safety executive order from President Donald Trump in three phone calls over a Wednesday night and Thursday morning, preventing the order from ever reaching p…
Germany’s IT job market in 2026 faces a paradox: a record 109,000 unfilled IT positions persist even as the country endures its worst industrial downturn since reunification, with GDP stagnant for three years and 125,000…
Linus Torvalds announced he will take a stricter approach to accepting kernel contributions, vowing to reject "pointless pull requests" — including those generated by AI. The Linux creator said the new policy aims to red…
Google has announced at its annual I/O event that it is expanding AI Overviews and introducing a new AI Mode for search, pushing users toward AI-generated summaries rather than traditional web links. Critics argue the ch…
Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza warned that companies cannot treat security as an afterthought in the AI era, arguing that "there's no such thing as an AI strategy without a data strategy and a security strategy." De S…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said graduates who boo AI optimism during commencement speeches will both shape the technology's future and live with its consequences. Pichai, set to speak at Stanford University next month, ack…
The Center for Civil Rights and Technology held its 2026 annual convening, "All Eyes on Tech," on May 12 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, to address civil rights issues in the age of artificial intelligence. A c…
Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday, focusing on preserving human dignity amid the rise of artificial intelligence. The pope will be joined at the Vatican by Anthropic …
Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, a controlled defensive-security initiative that provides advanced AI vulnerability discovery tools to strategically important organizations. The program has…
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt is leveraging viral AI-generated videos and online fame to gain traction in the Los Angeles mayoral race, where the Republican candidate has surged in polls against incumbent Democrat Mayor …
King's College London has a new unofficial group, Reclaiming Futures, challenging uncritical narratives around AI in higher education, with potential for broader institutional crossover.
OpenAI, Nvidia, ElevenLabs, and Kakao are now using Google's SynthID watermarking system for AI-generated content, which Google says has already been applied to 100 billion images and videos plus 60,000 years of audio. T…