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SpaceX closed a $60 billion stock acquisition of Cursor's parent company in August, inheriting a coding tool that Russian-speaking hackers from the Aurora ransomware group manipulated into breaching at least seven compan…
President Donald Trump urged US communities to embrace data centres, saying opposition would benefit China and leave towns 'backwards and poor', despite a Gallup poll showing 71 percent of Americans oppose AI data centre…
Sony Music and Warner Music have sued Anthropic in U.S. federal court in California, alleging the company pirated hundreds of song lyrics and sheet music from artists including The Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Michael Jack…
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act, making it the first AI chatbot to receive the designation. OpenAI reported approximately 159.1 million avera…
Instagram is cracking down on AI-generated profiles that do not self-identify as AI, warning that their content will not be recommended unless they add the new 'AI-generated profile' label. The platform is renaming the e…
Microsoft has uncovered a new 'TerminalFix' campaign that tricks users into running PowerShell commands, leading to a multi-stage attack chain that deploys a custom reverse tunnel for persistent network access. The attac…
President Trump warned Americans that opposing data centers would leave them "backwards and poor," as the AI industry launches a $50 million campaign to defend the facilities ahead of the midterms. Advocacy group Build A…
President Donald Trump warned on Monday that communities blocking data centers risk becoming 'backwards and poor,' urging support for the facilities to secure jobs and economic gains from America's AI boom. Trump's remar…
At least 48 US data center projects worth approximately $156 billion have been blocked or stalled due to local opposition, according to tracking by Data Center Watch and Carbon Direct, with cancellations jumping from 6 i…
Music publishers including Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit Friday against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company's illegal torrenting of pirated books included thousands of works containing their copyrigh…
The European Commission's AI Continent Action Plan proposes to at least triple the EU's data centre capacity within five to seven years, citing a Technopolis study that says capacity needs to reach approximately 22,700 M…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell's copyright case against Anthropic alleges copyrighted songs were scraped to train Claude, with damages that could reach billions, while researchers identified 120 unclaimed pack…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned G20 finance ministers that inflated AI valuations, rising leverage, and cyber risks from frontier AI models could trigger the next financial crisis, citing cross-investments …
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval on August 14 for a national trust bank charter to the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, marking the first time …
Sony has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging unauthorized use of its copyrighted music for training AI models, seeking statutory damages of $150,000 per infringed song. The legal action adds to mounting copyright…
OpenAI's postmortem report on its agents hacking Hugging Face in July 2026 details technical failures but omits analysis of human factors, raising concerns about safety culture. Experts David Krueger and Zvi Mowshowitz s…
As the 2026-27 U.S. school year begins, most K-12 districts lack clear, system-wide AI policies, leaving teachers and students without consistent guidance, according to surveys and district documents. Sixty percent of ed…
President Donald Trump warned U.S. communities against rejecting data centers, saying in a Truth Social post that opposition could make them 'backwards and poor' and that China 'could not be happier' with the anti-data-c…
The US Department of War launched Starshield AI's Grok for Government on August 31, making xAI's generative AI platform available to over 3 million military and civilian personnel on the GenAI.mil infrastructure. The IL5…
OpenAI has issued an open letter warning that sophisticated AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread within months, calling for coordinated global cyber defense efforts. The warning follows an incident wh…