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Microsoft announced it will cut 4,800 jobs globally, including a 20% reduction at its Xbox division, as the company shifts investment toward artificial intelligence. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma cited declining revenue and thin …
Utah launched the nation's first AI-powered prescription refill program in January, partnering with startup Doctronic to let a chatbot renew about 190 chronic medications, as states move to license AI doctors amid FDA re…
Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference in July 2026 attracted AI leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, alongside media moguls discussing deals involving Comcast, Paramount, and Warner Bros.…
China's Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, according to Reuters. The proposed fram…
Security researchers at Noma Labs discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's Agentic Workflows, dubbed GitLost, that allows attackers to trick AI agents into leaking private repository data as public comment…
Donald Trump's second term is marked by a pattern of bad luck, dubbed the 'Trump Curse,' where his presence at major sporting events correlates with losses for the teams he supports. This trend, observed at the Super Bow…
Stockholm produces AI-era founders at a rate nearly matching Silicon Valley, driven by the city's unique compression of industries and institutional support for cross-disciplinary talent. The E-shaped professional—combin…
The European Commission on July 7, 2026, published an action plan linking advanced AI model deployment to cybersecurity assurance across critical sectors, including finance, health, energy, transport, and public administ…
China is considering new export controls on frontier AI models, including both proprietary and open-weight systems, to protect domestic capabilities amid intensifying competition with the US. Officials from the Ministry …
Anthropic filed a lawsuit against Abnormal AI on July 1, alleging unfair competition and trademark infringement. Abnormal CEO Evan Reiser responded, stating Anthropic never notified them, the logo was designed before Ant…
Comma.ai CTO Harald Schaefer announced on July 7th that Anthropic is now a banned vendor at the autonomous-driving software company, citing concerns over user sovereignty and high usage costs. Schaefer warned other compa…
President Donald Trump publicly endorsed Dell products on multiple occasions, including at a stock market opening ceremony, coinciding with stock gains and raising ethics concerns. Former White House ethics lawyers argue…
A federal judge in Atlanta blocked the Justice Department from obtaining the names and personal contact information of all 2020 election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, ruling the subpoena was unreasonable and overly …
The Canadian government will invest up to $400 million in Teck Resources Ltd.'s critical minerals smelter in Trail, B.C., to boost production of germanium, antimony, and gallium for defense and green energy. The investme…
Utah launched a prescription refill program using an AI chatbot called Doctronic, allowing residents to get refills without seeing a doctor. The program has sparked debate among doctors and experts about AI's role in med…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's AI model Mythos to audit government software for vulnerabilities, according to three sources. The audits, conducted by CISA's Attack S…
A developer warns that German criminal code § 202c StGB, known as the 'Hacker-Paragraph,' criminalizes the preparation of data espionage and can trap developers who use security tools without explicit written consent. Th…
Anthropic has been banned as a vendor at comma_ai, with the company's founder recommending other firms follow suit and warning against over-reliance on cloud token vendors.
Scotland's governing SNP voted to freeze all new datacentre projects, threatening a core pillar of the UK's AI strategy that relies on Scotland's renewable energy. The moratorium could halt 24 hyperscale projects drawing…
OpenAI endorsed the European Commission's voluntary Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content on June 11, 2025, committing to use provenance tools like C2PA Content Credentials and SynthID watermarks to co…