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The AI industry has spent $725 billion in a high-stakes gamble on returns, while the U.S. government moves to nationalize AI models as strategic resources. A Chinese court ruled companies cannot offload automation costs …
The White House has asked Anthropic to halt further expansion of its Mythos AI model due to national security concerns about its cyber capabilities, marking the first instance of direct government control over AI deploym…
A clear divide has emerged in the AI industry, with leading US commercial entities like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google favoring closed-source models, while open-source alternatives are often scaled-down versions or from i…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that artificial intelligence will create more jobs rather than eliminate them, drawing parallels between AI adoption and immigration's economic effects. Huang argued that increased efficien…
Anthropic executive Boris Cherny stated that major job loss due to automation is imminent, but job creation will also follow, as the nature of AI-driven economic disruption becomes clearer. The assessment comes amid grow…
A malicious npm package named "exiouss" was published on May 1, 2026, by the account "loltestpad" as a rebranded version of the previously removed "godsplan" package, now bundling a PowerShell script that decrypts and ex…
Google signed a classified deal Monday allowing the Pentagon to use its AI models for "any lawful governmental purpose," surprising its own researchers who had been assured by senior management that the company would not…
A new prediction market called Endpoint Arena allows users to place real-money wagers on whether specific clinical trial outcomes will occur, including bets on cancer drug efficacy. The platform, which focuses on testing…
Economists and technologists are questioning why massive investments in artificial intelligence have not yet produced measurable productivity gains, echoing a similar "productivity paradox" observed with computers in the…
OpenAI lost its legal leverage, revenue credibility, and cloud exclusivity in five days. Elon Musk testified in a trial that could redefine for-profit AI conversions, while the company missed revenue targets tied to Orac…
The Supreme Court of Alabama dismissed an appeal and sanctioned an attorney after finding his briefs contained an "astounding number" of fabricated or misquoted legal authorities generated by an AI research tool. The att…
The Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) released new research on agentic identity and security following RSAC 2026, where a packed session on securing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) revealed that identity and authorization…
Platformer is restructuring its daily newsletter model to focus more on original reporting and less on link aggregation, as AI tools increasingly automate the curation of news summaries. The shift comes as the publicatio…
Luxury watchmaking faces pressure to adopt AI at mass-market retail speed, but most AI trends undermine the scarcity, discretion, and narrative integrity that define a maison. A disciplined, tightly governed approach tre…
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco mansion in April, and a 20-year-old man was arrested after allegedly attempting to break into OpenAI's headquarters with a manifesto listing AI execu…