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New research from Elastic reveals that one in three Australian businesses exceeded their AI budget last year, with nearly a third pausing or winding back deployments due to unjustified costs. Despite this, half plan to i…
Andreessen Horowitz released a document arguing that the United States must lead global AI development by establishing the infrastructure through which all nations access the technology, effectively owning the platform. …
Generative AI could be a doomed technology akin to the Wankel engine, warns Matt Scherer, a fellow at Open Markets Institute, in a Hard Reset piece. Scherer argues that if the AI bubble bursts, the economy could face sev…
Democratic lawmakers unveiled Project 2029, a policy blueprint for the 2028 presidential race, proposing a ban on social media accounts for children under 16, nationwide school cellphone bans, and new liability rules for…
LineageOS, the de-Googled Android ROM, published an article explaining that Google's upcoming developer verification changes do not affect their project since they do not ship Google Mobile Services. Critics like F-Droid…
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu argues that agentic AI will not kill the app economy but will transform it, with apps becoming callable APIs while retaining trusted data and relationships. Apple's orchestrator model keeps ap…
GLAAD released a report on how AI fails LGBTQ people, detailing biases in AI systems and proposing a framework for safer, more inclusive AI. The report highlights the need for better representation and safety measures in…
Google added generative AI performance reports to Search Console, placing AI visibility data alongside traditional search metrics to signal that AI visibility is search visibility, not a separate discipline. The reports …
A new AI routing policy framework enables teams to document which execution path handles each class of AI work, creating a spend-by-task-class record for finance teams. The approach leverages existing skills in writing a…
Micron Technology is investing 1.5 trillion yen ($10 billion) to expand its Hiroshima plant, with a 536 billion yen subsidy from Japan's METI, to secure the supply chain for high-bandwidth memory used in Nvidia and AMD A…
Anthropic and Microsoft announced general availability of Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, but European enterprises cannot deploy them due to data residency restrictions. Microsoft's documentation confirms that Anthro…
More than 100 authors filed a $75 million lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the AI company of using pirated books to train its Claude large language model. The lawsuit, filed in Northern California District Court, alle…
The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models two weeks after imposing them, restoring global access with a warning that controls could be reimposed. Meanwhile, OpenAI's GP…
Corbett Report has upgraded its comment system and invites members to use the July open thread to discuss topics including the war in Iran and a story about CIA contractor Peter Thiel's Dialog Society involving weaponize…
Telecommunications operators are increasingly adopting private, on-premises AI agent infrastructure to process sensitive network and subscriber data while maintaining compliance with GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, and NIS2 re…
A customer disputes a loan denial, a regulator opens an inquiry, and a plaintiff's lawyer files discovery, all asking what an AI system decided and why, but reproducing the decision from eighteen months ago is impossible…
A governance gap in AI spending is causing enterprises to face surprise bills, with 37% of companies now spending over $250,000 a year on LLM APIs and 72% expecting that to climb, according to a March 2026 Gartner report…
A deletion request in an AI system reveals that personal data is not stored in one place but smeared across a fine-tuned model's weights, vector indexes, retrieval snapshots, and evaluation sets, making true erasure a re…
A new study published in PLOS One found that voters rated AI-generated political debate responses as more authentic and relevant than real answers from politicians. Researchers used GPT-4 Turbo to mimic 112 public figure…
US software developers aged 22-25 have declined 19% from their late-2022 peak, while overall developer employment rose 10% to 1.69 million by May 2025. The collapse is concentrated in automatable roles like computer prog…