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The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) launched its third cohort of researchers to study artificial intelligence's impact on work, jobs, and productivity. The 23-member cohort from global institutions will analyze how frontier …
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, a landmark AI regulation bill that increases transparency and accountability for large AI models. The law, modeled after similar legis…
South Korea's $880 billion chip and AI infrastructure plan faces power and water constraints around the Yongin Semiconductor National Industrial Complex, which could require 15 to 16 GW at full operation against a local …
California voters will decide on Proposition 44 in the 2026 election, which would require safety-net health clinics to spend 90% of revenue on patient services rather than overhead. Clinics failing to comply could face m…
The AI industry is a sham propped up by manufactured consent and circular financing, and it should not be bailed out. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are losing money, with revenues driven by grifting and unsustainab…
China's new rules banning AI companion services for minors take effect July 15, 2026, prohibiting sustained emotional interaction or virtual companions for minors. ByteDance and Alibaba are already disabling their AI age…
Beijing-based AI company Z.ai has released an open-weight model, GLM-5.2, that rivals Anthropic's powerful Mythos 5 in cybersecurity tasks, raising concerns as it can be downloaded and run without safety guardrails. Secu…
Artificial intelligence is transforming retail investment by enabling personalized advice, automated trading, and risk management, but regulators must balance innovation with consumer protection to avoid stifling progres…
The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index graded major AI companies on risk management, with Anthropic earning the top score of C+, while OpenAI slipped to C and Google DeepMind ranked third. Meta improved fr…
AI development is shifting from prompt engineering to loop engineering, where AI agents autonomously iterate and coordinate without human intervention. This transition transforms corporate governance, as loops create beh…
Cloudflare opened a July 1, 2026 waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, which lets customers charge per request for pages, datasets, APIs, and MCP tools using the x402 payment protocol. The service moves payment proof in…
Tether's AI research team argues that cloud-hosted AI systems force users to rent intelligence, creating availability bias, high costs, and data sovereignty risks. They advocate for local, edge-optimized AI that runs on …
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a Google Dialogflow CX flaw, dubbed Rogue Agent, on July 7, 2026, that could allow attackers with playbook update permission to persist malicious code inside enterprise chatbots. Google conf…
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said AI and technology will remain a priority under likely next prime minister Andy Burnham, citing meetings with Burnham and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall. Narayan emphasized AI's endu…
U.S. drivers are switching from premium to regular gasoline as fuel prices remain elevated, with daily premium sales down nearly 5% and regular sales up 10% since before the Iran war. The shift includes owners of perform…
A federal judge appointed a mediator to resolve the legal dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI's restructuring, after a jury rejected Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's founding principles. The m…
The New World screwworm, a deadly parasite fly, has been detected in Texas for the first time in 50 years, with over 30 cases confirmed in livestock. Experts are uncertain how the pest entered the U.S., sparking politica…
The Atlantic reported on July 7, 2026, that China-linked actors are using public AI tools and model ecosystems to push Beijing-friendly narratives abroad. OpenAI's June threat reporting documented accounts likely based i…
Euronews Chairman Pedro Vargas David praised Kazakhstan's new Constitution and announced that Kazakh is now an international broadcast language on Euronews, joining English, French, German, Russian, and Portuguese. He ci…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued on July 7, 2026 that automated moderation has become a permanent infrastructure layer of platform governance, not a temporary emergency measure. The analysis traces the shift fro…