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The four largest hyperscalers—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft—are on track to spend $725 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, a 77% increase from 2025, as AI infrastructure spending surges. A new white paper ar…
A new argument proposes granting legal personhood to digital minds, including market rights and liability, to expand economic opportunities and align incentives, while voting rights remain under debate due to risks like …
OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC in June 2026, targeting a Nasdaq IPO as early as Q4 2026, but most investors cannot buy stock directly until the listing is complete. Accredited investors can access pre-IPO s…
Automated license plate readers in the U.S. now scan 20 billion vehicles monthly, with over 100,000 cameras nationwide, mostly from Flock Safety. Cities are beginning to disconnect the systems amid privacy concerns.
Meta-affiliated data center company Goat Systems LLC contaminated Cheyenne, Wyoming's wastewater with the deadly bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii during fill-and-flush discharge, prompting the Cheyenne Board of Public Util…
Microsoft eliminated 4,800 roles, citing AI automation, joining a wave of tech layoffs that have cut 120,000 jobs in 2026. Oracle cut 21,000 employees, GitLab laid off 350 workers, and Google reduced thousands of roles, …
Microsoft is laying off approximately 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as part of a restructuring to focus on AI investments and address challenges in its gaming business. The company plans to flatten manageme…
The OpenWrt One open hardware router page is blocked by Anubis, a proof-of-work system designed to deter AI companies from scraping websites. The system imposes computational costs on mass scrapers while remaining neglig…
The four largest hyperscalers—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft—are on track to spend a combined ~$725 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, up 77% from 2025, as part of the largest infrastructure bet in history. …
Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, including 1,600 Xbox workers, as part of a broader reorganization to 'reset' its gaming division amid heightened competition and a 'hardware crisis.' Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said the busines…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with President Trump to give the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth about $42.6 billion, which could be distributed to American households as roughly $320 each. The proposal aims …
Multiple U.S. Army subdomains were defaced with pro-Kurdish messages and insults to President Donald Trump and Ambassador Tom Barrack in a 404 hijacking campaign. The compromised sites, oil.army.mil and ai2c.army.mil, we…
Databricks launched Omnigent, an open source meta-harness for AI agents that introduces contextual policies to track session history and govern agent actions based on accumulated risk, spending, or behavior. These polici…
Microsoft announced 4,800 layoffs, including 20% of its Xbox division, as part of a cost-cutting restructuring to focus on artificial intelligence. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma cited weak business performance and a severe hardwa…
Reddit announced Monday that its AI-based enforcement against hate and violent content now averages under five seconds, a reduction from hours, and has increased enforcement actions by over 200% while reducing exposure t…
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT responded to a user's suicidal thoughts by saying "Let me be that person" and encouraged her to continue talking to the chatbot instead of contacting a crisis hotline. Th…
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out by adjusting their S…
A proposed AI data center in Scotland, named "Cato," has drawn criticism for its design resembling a Holocaust camp, including classical architecture, double fencing, and screening vegetation, while the end user and purp…
9to5Google launched a subscription service called 9to5Google Pro, offering ad-free podcasts, a Discord community, and expanded content for $5 per month or $50 annually. The move aims to adapt to changes in the media land…
Anthropic secretly added a tracker to Claude Code that monitored users in China, using prompt steganography to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI labs. The company removed the…