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SpaceX is pursuing a multi-billion dollar Pentagon contract to deploy AI inference at the edge of its Starlink satellite constellation, effectively positioning itself as the operating system for battlefield connectivity …
The US government took two major steps toward regulating AI as national infrastructure this week: the FTC opened a comment period proposing that undisclosed AI output manipulation may constitute consumer fraud, and OpenA…
AI search summaries are reducing publisher traffic by nearly 40%, threatening the economic model of the open web, according to new research from Harvard Business School, the Indian School of Business, and Carnegie Mellon…
A user testing Fable 5 on Claude.ai was blocked from asking 'Why don't cats and dogs get along?' and automatically switched to Opus 4.8 due to overly broad safety safeguards that flagged the harmless question as a potent…
French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are personally courting tech CEOs to secure AI infrastructure investments, resulting in tens of billions of dollars in commitments. Macron's relati…
A developer predicts that the AI age will hit hard before it heals, arguing that AI is still underestimated and will reshape jobs, power, and society. The developer forecasts that by around 2030, AI could reach a level r…
The Godot open-source game engine project has announced a new policy banning almost all AI-generated code contributions, citing an overwhelming number of low-quality pull requests that are 'demoralizing' for maintainers.…
FIFA kept England's round-of-16 match against Mexico at its originally scheduled 6 p.m. local time on July 5, 2026, after briefly considering moving the match earlier due to thunderstorm forecasts in Mexico City. The dec…
Svenska Dagbladet tested AI chatbots on Sweden's election compass, but a new analysis by Agent Arena stripped away system prompts and web search to measure raw model leanings. Across 28 frontier model configurations, non…
Dutch police deemed the use of force during an arrest at an asylum center in Zeist necessary, but refused to disclose the full assessment, citing internal procedures. The incident, in which an officer pulled a pregnant w…
Anthropic announced that its Claude Fable 5 model will be temporarily removed from Pro and Max subscriptions on July 7, 2026, citing capacity constraints. The model will remain accessible via metered usage credits at API…
China launched a coast guard patrol east of Taiwan amid the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, escalating grey-zone tactics and raising market concerns over a potential military clash before 2027. The patrol follows maritime d…
The United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union launched the AI for Good Global Commission on July 1, co-chaired by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, to bridge frontier AI de…
Portugal released Amalia, the first open large language model for European Portuguese, on July 1. Developed by a consortium led by NOVA University Lisbon with over 60 researchers and funded by the country's Recovery and …
A new protocol called the Instruction Completion Protocol limits AI authority by separating verification from execution and using a structured checklist enforced via JSON. The system forces AI to defer to humans when unk…
The Australasian Science Education Research Association released a white paper calling for a revamp of science curricula in Australia and New Zealand to incorporate AI, climate change, and other 21st-century challenges, …
A teenage hacking group called TeamPCP poisoned two releases of LiteLLM, an open-source AI gateway tool downloaded 95 million times, stealing over 500,000 credentials and 300 GB of data from more than 1,000 SaaS environm…
Argentina's proposal to create AI-run companies faces the reality that human oversight remains essential, as the government's plan to fully automate corporate operations encounters legal and practical hurdles requiring h…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to employees that the company's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, despite a $145 billion capital commitment and a restructuring that eliminated 10,000 jobs. The admis…
Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code over alleged backdoor risks, directing them to its own Qoder platform amid a dispute over model distillation. Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extract…