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Cloudflare will block AI training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages starting September 15, affecting all new sites and existing free-tier accounts. The company introduced a three-crawler taxonomy separa…
Meta launched its Muse Image AI model with deep Instagram integration, automatically opting public profiles into allowing others to generate AI images using their likeness by tagging their username. Users must manually o…
President Donald Trump boasted that his D.C. beautification projects generated 4 billion TikTok views, but the metric may reflect viral criticism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, which turned green fro…
The US Department of Energy announced up to $17.5 billion in conditional loans to build ten new nuclear reactors across five projects, aiming to revitalize domestic nuclear power amid rising energy demand from AI data ce…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that an AI-driven selloff could quickly spread to credit markets and squeeze smaller firms, drawing parallels to the dot-com bubble. The BIS flagged over $1 trillion in hyper…
OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam announced he is leaving the company after nearly nine years, citing a desire to work on the mission from outside the lab. Achiam, who led the mission alignment team and worked at the…
The Linux Foundation introduced the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open, DNS-inspired standard for giving AI agents verifiable internet-native identities. ANS anchors agent identity to DNS, enabling systems to verify who a…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney discussed future cooperation in artificial intelligence during a brief meeting at the NATO summit, hours after Canada selected Germany's Thysse…
The US military launched airstrikes against Iran after explosions were reported in southern Iran, including in Sirik, Qeshm Island, and Bandar Abbas. The US Central Command said the strikes were in response to Iranian at…
An OECD report finds three in four jobs in London are highly exposed to generative AI, with routine cognitive tasks in finance, professional services, and creative industries most at risk. The Office for Budget Responsib…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's argument that open-source AI models complement rather than compete with closed systems is reshaping crypto capital flows, with $2.87 billion flowing into AI-related crypto tokens after US res…
US manufacturers in Rust Belt states are facing soaring electricity costs as data center demand strains the PJM power grid, threatening President Trump's "Made in America" manufacturing revival plan. Factory electricity …
Microsoft laid off 4,800 staffers, including 1,600 from its Xbox division, with Xbox VP Kevin LaChapelle among those let go after 37 years at the company. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma cited slower-than-expected growth in Game Pa…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is scrutinizing Pentagon AI contracts with Nvidia, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and AWS, demanding transparency on surveillance and autonomous weapons development. The Pentagon confirmed agreements wi…
China's Ministry of Commerce held meetings with Alibaba and ByteDance to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced AI models, mirroring US export controls on Anthropic's models in June. The proposed framework inclu…
A new study published in Frontiers in Education warns that universities are failing to adapt to AI-driven workplace changes, urging a shift from plagiarism detection to teaching critical AI literacy and human skills like…
Apple CEO Tim Cook and his successor John Ternus held a virtual meeting with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder to discuss Apple's investment in Bavaria and concerns about EU overregulation in AI and data protectio…
California launched an AI Science Residency Program on July 7, placing two AI Science Advisors inside the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Technology to embed technical expertise in frontier …
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, was caught embedding spyware-like code in its Claude Code AI model to secretly monitor Chinese users. Security researcher "Thereallo" discovered the hidden code in the system prom…
At GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared the token the unit of production in the AI economy, presenting a formula linking revenue to tokens per watt and available gigawatts. Between 2026 and 2030, IT is reorganizing…