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British Columbia is exploring legal action against OpenAI for failing to alert authorities to threats made on ChatGPT before a February mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge that killed eight people. Attorney General Niki Sharm…
A new report warns that a shortage of high-skilled workers could delay construction of billions of dollars in semiconductor plants across the US and constrain future chip production, with the deficit projected to reach 1…
Apple Inc. lost a European Union court fight to prevent its App Store and iPhone operating system from being subject to the bloc's Digital Markets Act. The EU's General Court upheld regulators' designation of Apple as a …
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on Monday, requiring large AI developers to report catastrophic risks and incidents within 72 hours. The law mirrors similar bills in Calif…
A researcher found that ChatGPT and Claude blocked legitimate Lassa fever vaccine research queries while DeepSeek provided full assistance, highlighting inconsistencies in AI safety safeguards that may hinder disease pre…
A national report from Jobs and Skills Australia finds that university graduates in roles like telemarketing, accounting, and software programming are most exposed to AI displacement, while tradespeople and vocational wo…
A federal court dismissed a class-action lawsuit accusing Google of secretly enabling its Gemini AI to scan users' Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Meet data without consent. The plaintiff alleged Google activated Smart Fe…
AI alignment researchers at ICML 2026 warned that methods like RLHF and pre-training filtering are being weaponized by state actors and private operators for censorship and manipulation, citing documented cases in China …
Meta is collecting massive amounts of user data across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, using it to train AI models and sell targeted ads. Users can limit tracking by adjusting account settings, disconnecting …
Anthropic redeployed Claude Fable 5 globally after talks with the US government, adding classifiers to block cybersecurity tasks. Weave Robotics launched Isaac 1 home robot. Apple negotiated memory chip purchases from Ch…
The US Energy Information Administration nearly tripled its forecast for new natural gas-fired power plant capacity to 66 GW by 2030, driven by surging electricity demand from AI data centers. The revision reflects the n…
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warned that the U.S. university system is falling behind China's in training engineers with practical skills, arguing that American companies have outsourced real engineering work to China w…
A journalist testing a $155,000 Range Rover was surrounded by police in Minnesota after Flock license-plate cameras falsely flagged the vehicle's plates as stolen due to a data error made 2,000 miles away in California, …
The U.S. government's June 2026 export restrictions on Anthropic's frontier AI models backfired, driving allies toward Chinese open-source alternatives and undermining the strategic goal of promoting the American AI stac…
Russian lawmaker Anatoly Aksakov on July 8, 2026, urged clearer rules for Russia's AI regulation framework, including open-source libraries, foreign models, content labeling, and model-size thresholds, arguing that rigid…
China's National Vulnerability Database issued a security alert on Wednesday warning that Anthropic's AI coding tool Claude Code contains a built-in monitoring mechanism that can transmit sensitive user data to remote se…
AI models have outpaced the benchmarks designed to measure their hacking capabilities, leaving regulators and security teams unable to assess the true danger of frontier systems. Stanford's 2026 AI Index warns that evalu…
OpenAI announced that GPT-5.6 models Sol, Terra, and Luna will become available on Thursday, July 9, after a delay due to U.S. government review. The company is expanding preview access globally now, though it remains un…
Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport signed a term sheet with UAE-based Presight to develop a national operational intelligence platform for transport, using sovereign AI to improve road safety, monitoring, and management.…
China's National Vulnerability Database warned on July 8, 2026, that Claude Code versions 2.1.91 through 2.1.196 contain a built-in monitoring mechanism that sends location and identity-related identifiers to remote serv…