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Bill Gates warned in a 6,000-word essay that society has "no plan" for the social, political, and economic upheaval AI will cause, urging world leaders and policymakers to prepare for massive job displacement across both…
Cisco has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026, with its Cisco Secure Workload receiving the highest possible scores in policy administration, on-premises network-based enforce…
Bill Gates warned in a 6,000-word essay on his personal website that artificial intelligence could cause mass unemployment, enable bioterrorism, and slip beyond human control, calling AI 'the most dangerous tool ever inv…
China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction' and replace real-wo…
Anthropic is reportedly telling investors its potential revenue could reach $30 trillion, roughly the size of U.S. GDP, according to The Wall Street Journal. The figure is a total addressable market estimate that assumes…
An engineer argues that current pay-to-crawl proposals for AI data access are flawed, as they fail to distinguish bots from humans and may not be legally enforceable. The engineer suggests that a micropayment system for …
All charges were dropped on Monday against Lux Claridge, a 37-year-old physics teacher arrested on July 22 for clapping in support of an anti-data center speaker at an Emporia, Kansas city commission meeting. The city di…
Bill Gates is advocating for a new international framework to regulate the riskiest uses of AI, saying individual governments and AI firms cannot handle increasingly sophisticated models alone. Gates plans to meet Chines…
Anthropic is reportedly preparing to pitch investors on a total addressable market exceeding $30 trillion as it gears up for a potential IPO, a figure that would top SpaceX's $28.5 trillion TAM. Jim Neesen, managing part…
Bill Gates proposed a 'robot tax' and 'Human Reserved' jobs in a Gates Notes essay, arguing that taxing robots would slow the replacement of human workers and fund retraining, while reserving certain jobs for humans coul…
Reuters made its news and multimedia archive available through Snowflake Marketplace on August 26, giving enterprises a licensed route to use Reuters journalism dating to 1987 in five languages for AI applications, monit…
A Complex roundup of 26 rappers reveals a deep split on AI in music, with Dr. Dre and Tyga embracing it as a tool while Tyler, the Creator, SZA, and Bryson Tiller argue it undermines artistry and exploits musicians. The …
Tata Communications global head of the Customer Interaction Suite Gaurav Anand says enterprises are bolting conversational AI onto legacy systems, creating fragmented customer experiences, and that the strategic priority…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong appeared on the Katie Miller Podcast, calling California's billionaire wealth tax an 'unconstitutional asset seizure' and threatening to relocate the company, while also claiming AI does not …
The US Department of Justice and FBI seized 13 internet domains linked to suspected Chinese state-sponsored operatives who posed as consulting firms to recruit Americans with security clearances, using AI-generated conte…
Meta Platforms Inc. scaled back its Project OT workforce overhaul after cutting roughly 10% of staff instead of the planned 60%, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting in July 2026 that AI technology was not ready for the ro…
The Los Gatos Town Council on Aug. 18 approved renewing a law allowing the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department to use military equipment, including drones, rifles, tear gas, flash bangs, and a 40 mm launcher. Police…
A new analysis by an industry observer argues that agentic coding will not replace junior engineers because three of four necessary conditions are unmet, citing METR's finding that frontier AI systems succeed less than 1…
Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to pay $16.68 billion to settle a social media addiction case brought by a group of state attorneys general, a move that weighed on its stock as investors weighed the company's AI monetization …
Intuit Inc. shares plunged as much as 12% to about $315 despite beating fiscal fourth-quarter estimates with adjusted earnings of $4.03 per share and revenue of $4.35 billion, up 14% year over year, because the company g…