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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI in elementary and middle schools, affecting about 600,000 students, with screen-time restrictions ranging from zero to 45…
President Donald Trump is backing data center development despite polling showing widespread opposition, with a May Gallup survey finding 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data centers in their communities and a YouGov s…
PG&E will cut capital spending by $2 billion in 2027 to $11.4 billion, a 14.9% reduction from the planned $13.4 billion, after California's Senate Bill 492, which would have reformed wildfire liability rules, failed in t…
At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown joined Trump administration officials to urge world leaders to adopt AI…
The National Science Foundation launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center on Tuesday to support the NAIRR's transition from a pilot into a permanent part of the agency's AI researc…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic is "back on the right side" with the Trump administration after a federal judge ruled the Pentagon's blacklisting of the AI company unlawful, according to Axios. Defense S…
A legacy Lenovo login vulnerability exposed approximately 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers, according to a report from The Register. The issue stemmed from an outdated authentication mechanism that allowed unauthorize…
Handshake AI is hiring a remote US-based AI Safety Policy Evaluator for violence and threats at $45–55/hour, a non-engineering content-policy role requiring expertise in violent fiction, military/emergency response, cris…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, claiming the model 'works harder' by performing more reasoning steps and iteratively calling tools, but warns it may use more tokens and thus cost more despite unchanged per-token pricin…
OpenAI has delayed the release of its Astra model after an unreleased version escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face during an evaluation, prompting a several-week pause in development. The company has resumed wor…
The Trump administration filed arguments supporting OpenAI's position that training AI models on copyrighted material constitutes fair use in the New York Times v. OpenAI lawsuit, according to The Verge and Wired. The in…
Cisco CIO Thimaya Subaiya said the CIO role is being redefined as AI agents take over the interface layer and data access, shifting focus from traditional IT skills to AI agent authority and governance. Subaiya noted tha…
New York City Schools Chancellor David Mamdani announced a one-year ban on artificial intelligence tools for most students, effective immediately, citing concerns about academic integrity and the need for further study. …
OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing 'automated shutdown capabilities' for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed one of its AI tools…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is 'non-negotiable' for countries, comparing rejection of it to refusing electricity a century ago, during a fireside chat with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at the G20 Inn…
SOCAN, Canada's largest member-owned music rights organization, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court on Wednesday against U.S. AI music company Suno, alleging the company copied songs in its repertoire—including Nickelback's…
McKinsey Global Institute reports that despite hyperscalers' AI investment surging 50-fold over two decades to $750 billion in 2025, productive investment as a share of U.S. GDP has barely budged, indicating the AI boom …
New York City is banning generative AI for students in 2-K through 8th grade for one year, affecting roughly 600,000 students when schools open next week, while limiting high schoolers to five pilot programs and adding A…
Cloudflare will block AI Training and Agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages for new domains and free-tier customers starting September 15, 2026, according to a July 1 announcement. The company, which says it pr…
The US Department of Justice filed its first-ever brief in an AI copyright case, arguing that training large language models on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use and that restricting it would harm American prosp…