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Debian's developers are voting on eight proposals that would ban, limit, disclose, or permit LLM-assisted contributions to the project, with the vote extended to August 26, 2026, by Debian Project Leader Sruthi Chandran.…
Reuters reports that Meta's plan to replace human work with AI agents, known as Project OT, unraveled after employee backlash and weak productivity gains. Meta laid off 10% of its workforce in May but canceled a second r…
Australia's June quarter construction data shows overall construction fell 2.1%, dragged down by engineering work, while non-residential building rose but not enough to offset the drop, indicating the AI investment boom …
The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals found that Venergy, a construction management company, may have used Grok, an AI tool, to alter financial documents during discovery in a contract termination dispute with the Depar…
More than 15 U.S. politicians have signed the AI Pact, pledging to regulate data centers and artificial intelligence, according to Wired. Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn said, "We've got to get this right.
BMO Financial Group Chief AI and Quantum Officer Kristin Milchanowski said on CNBC's Squawk on the Street that she hopes 2027 brings a shift away from AI use cases toward scalability and business value, as Nvidia prepare…
Nvidia's $500 billion financing platform, which lets AI startups and data center operators purchase H100s, B200s, and future Blackwell architectures through structured financing, raises serious concerns about counterpart…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, proposed a 'token tax' on AI in a 6,000-word essay on his Gates Notes website, aiming to slow AI's impact on labor and fund job retraining and social safety nets. He also suggested 'H…
Amazon confirmed September 30, 2026 as the final shutdown date for Mechanical Turk, the 21-year-old crowdsourced labor marketplace, with all APIs going offline. New sign-ups closed July 30, alongside AWS SageMaker Ground…
Utah politicians are grappling with public backlash over Flock surveillance cameras and the Stratos data center project, which have become key political issues. Frank Cowley argues that Flock's AI-powered license plate t…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Elon Musk the Order of Freedom, one of Ukraine's highest state honors, for his 'outstanding personal merits' in protecting human life and freedom and strengthening ties wit…
OpenAI announced 55 new partnerships with American school districts on Wednesday, roughly doubling the reach of its ChatGPT for Teachers product, which now serves more than 300,000 staffers and 2 million students across …
Insurance companies are voiding coverage for losses arising from AI due to vague clauses released by ISO in January, creating a nightmare for frontier tech companies. Risklytics, a YC S26 startup, is building a specializ…
Bill Gates, Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist, warned in a nearly 6,000-word essay published Wednesday that humanity cannot afford to move slowly on AI, calling the transition to the new AI era 'one of t…
California state senators, led by Democrats, have proposed a plan that rejects Governor Gavin Newsom's push to limit insurer lawsuits against utility companies for wildfire-related subrogation claims, according to a prop…
Goldman Sachs flow experts report that US large-cap mutual funds are underweight Nvidia by roughly 100 basis points, the largest underweight among major AI stocks, ahead of Nvidia's Q2 FY2027 earnings. The de-risking acc…
The US Department of Labor is partnering with approximately 40 organizations, including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, to build an AI Workforce Hub, a centralized platform to track AI's impact on jobs, wages, and skills …
Tenet Security researchers demonstrated at DEF CON 34 a new attack called 'Ghostjacking' that tricks AI coding agents into proposing DNS changes by planting malicious instructions in error logs, achieving a roughly 90% s…
On August 13th, Samuel Gold and Alexander Risio launched Risklytics, a San Francisco commercial insurance brokerage for companies deploying AI agents and autonomous systems, with backing from Y Combinator. The brokerage …
Nvidia Corp. is on pace to become the first semiconductor company to post $100 billion in revenue in a single quarter, with consensus estimates for fiscal Q3 2027 (ending October 2026) at roughly $104 billion. The compan…