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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security purchased two California immigrant detention centers from CoreCivic for $1.5 billion, including the Otay Mesa facility in San Diego for $739.2 million. The sale comes amid Trump a…
The US Energy Information Administration projects record-high electricity demand in 2026 and 2027, driven by data centers, AI workloads, and cryptocurrency mining. The surge marks the strongest multi-year growth since th…
China's National Medical Products Administration approved several Class III AI medical-device registrations in 2026, expanding the category from diagnostic support into pathology, endoscopy and surgical-navigation use ca…
Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia will leave his role at the end of August after an 18-month tenure focused on overhauling federal IT acquisition and culture. Barbaccia, who also served as Chief AI Officer, pushed agencies to b…
Bank of America warned that AI investors face a reality check as extreme speculation and high valuations signal a potential market snapback. The S&P 500's nine percent gain this year masks growing gaps between tech valua…
California voters will decide on 14 statewide propositions in the November 2026 election, covering issues from a billionaire tax and voter ID requirements to housing bonds and changes to the state's environmental law. Th…
Nearly 80% of enterprises reported AI-related security issues in the past six months, with 50% experiencing incidents from unauthorized or misconfigured AI agents, according to a DigiCert survey of 1,001 IT and cybersecu…
Prosecutors in Utah presented previously unseen video footage during a preliminary hearing for Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus on Sep…
Anthropic extended promotional access to its Claude Fable 5 model for paid users through July 12th, giving subscribers five more days before the model stops being treated as a partially bundled subscription. The extensio…
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…
Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel is seeking comments on his new book 'Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights,' which argues that AI with humanlike consciousness would deserve humanlike rights and that creating AI whose humanlike…
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…