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A new analysis shows that layoffs at major tech companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Dell do not meaningfully fund AI infrastructure spending. At Meta, layoff savings cover only 2-6% of capital expenditures, and eliminati…
Cloudflare and AWS have both integrated the x402 open protocol into their edge networks, enabling agent-to-service micropayments with stablecoin settlement. The protocol revives HTTP's 402 status code for payment-gated r…
Agency bosses at Cannes Lions said the AI gap between agencies and advertisers is widening, with most clients still struggling with governance, budget, and trust. Executives reported that while agency AI platforms are ad…
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will shut down their AI agent creation features on July 15, 2026, coinciding with the implementation of China's new AI regulations. Existing user-created agents will stop functioning…
Hundreds of supporters have donated over $23,000 to the legal defense of US Air Force engineer Jeffrey Sovern, who faces 13 counts of destruction of property and other charges for allegedly damaging Flock license plate c…
The Economist ran 25 frontier AI models through the World Values Survey, revealing significant ideological diversity among them. Models like GPT-4o and DeepSeek R1 are near-twins despite different origins, while DeepSeek…
The European Union AI Act requires AI-generated content to be identifiable via watermarks or digitally signed metadata, with C2PA Content Credentials as a key implementation. However, C2PA adoption is extremely low, with…
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…