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The White House has shelved a planned executive order to establish government review of frontier AI models before release, following direct lobbying of President Trump by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Wh…
A team of legal technology researchers at LegalQuants has developed a "lexploit" called Noroboto, a malicious TrueType font that lies about the Unicode representation of its glyphs to obfuscate text in legal documents. T…
Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a strike by nearly 48,000 workers after agreeing to a tentative deal on bonus payments, as the labor union demanded a larger share of profits from the company's AI-driven semiconducto…
President Trump abruptly canceled a planned executive order that would have established voluntary pre-deployment safety evaluations for frontier AI models, hours before the scheduled signing ceremony. The decision follow…
Despite political tensions and a widely reported tech race, the U.S. and Chinese AI ecosystems remain deeply interconnected through talent, research, and culture. American AI companies have recruited top Chinese research…
JPMorgan Chase's head of programmatic, Melissa Bonnick, said at the Programmatic AI conference that financial regulations simplify automation by providing clear boundaries for AI agents, but insisted humans must remain i…
Google announced new AI agents for Gmail and YouTube at its I/O conference, deepening tensions with publishers over content use and attribution. The features automate tasks like email drafting and video summarization, ra…
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday directing state agencies to prepare workers and businesses for potential AI-driven economic disruption, including job training programs and workforce im…
Spotify announced new AI initiatives on Thursday, including personal podcast generation and a partnership with Universal Music Group for "responsible" AI-generated song covers and remixes. The streaming platform is attem…
The legal profession has not been transformed by artificial intelligence despite early predictions that law would be an easy target for automation, with 79% of attorneys reporting AI adoption but few actually changing ho…
Antigravity 2.0's redesigned IDE receives overwhelmingly negative feedback due to bugs, poor UX, and high Gemini token consumption, with hints that even its own developers prefer other tools. Google's chaotic product eco…
Varonis announced an integration with the Claude Compliance API, bringing Claude Enterprise and Claude Platform activity into its Atlas AI Security Platform. The integration enables security and governance teams to monit…
Google announced a major Search revamp at its I/O developer conference, introducing an AI-first interface that summarizes web content instead of displaying links. This shift threatens the online information economy by re…
OpenAI announced three major initiatives in five days, including a partnership with Plaid to connect ChatGPT to over 12,000 financial institutions, multi-year enterprise compute contracts, and a program providing $1 mill…
Researchers at the University of Waikato have developed a text-to-speech system for a specific dialect of te reo Māori, built on the principle that the synthetic voice and all data used to create it must remain owned by …
The U.S. General Services Administration announced a new OneGov agreement for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, offering federal agencies up to 50% reduced consumption costs on compute through pre-negotiated pricing. The part…
A recent essay by Derek Thompson argues that AI's emergent capabilities and potential for cyber and bio risks justify "extraordinary" government intervention, including restrictions on AI company releases, despite agreei…
Common Sense Media launched its Youth AI Safety Institute on May 5, backed by a new initiative to address artificial intelligence risks for children. The nonprofit, known for technology recommendations for families, appo…
A new database from Equitable Growth synthesizes research on AI's impact on work, finding that effects are difficult to measure and will depend on the balance of benefits and harms across tasks, skills, and time. Experts…
On 20 May 2026, GitHub confirmed that approximately 3,800 internal repositories were exfiltrated after an employee installed a poisoned code editor extension that handed attackers credentials and cloud keys. The breach e…