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French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are personally courting tech CEOs to secure AI infrastructure investments, with Macron texting SoftBank's Masayoshi Son to land a €75 billion data …
A Guardian investigation found OpenAI apparently never visited a key site for its Stargate UK data centre project before it was announced. The partnership was paused in April 2026, and a previous investigation found the …
AI-powered mass emails are distorting local politics, particularly around energy and climate issues, by flooding officials with automated messages that appear to be from constituents. This manipulation undermines democra…
In response to AI summaries reducing clicks to publishers, RSS feeds are being promoted as a direct alternative to search engine optimization and social media sharing, giving publishers and users a stable link free from …
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-testing program calle…
Frontier AI models may soon enable catastrophic misuse, such as aiding in the creation of deadly bioweapons or orchestrating cyber-attacks, with evidence of rapid improvement on technical tasks and expert-level performan…
Three Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft on Wednesday, alleging that the company's Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant generates excessive noise from diesel generators and HVAC systems…
A developer argues that AI governance must be embedded at the architectural level rather than applied externally. The post contends that current governance frameworks are performative because they cannot represent constr…
AI resume screening systems are disproportionately rejecting newcomer and nonnative-English applicants, with a 2023 Upwardly Global report finding that AI tools misidentified 98% of essays from new English speakers as AI…
Fanfiction communities are launching grassroots efforts to detect AI-generated works, but these detection methods often misclassify human authors and fuel social conflict within fandoms. The movement follows revelations …
OpenAI's Stargate UK data center project, announced with a £30 billion investment figure, has been paused after it emerged that OpenAI never visited a key planned site and that roughly £20 billion of the investment was s…
The New Stack argues that reducing AI model costs alone will not solve budget overruns, as infrastructure, data management, and operational expenses remain significant. The article urges organizations to adopt holistic c…
Seventy-six immigrants from 28 countries became U.S. citizens aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda during an annual Fourth of July naturalization ceremony ahead of America's 250th birthday. The new citizens, including a UC B…
Meta faces two core problems: an advertising-dependent business model and massive AI infrastructure costs without a direct monetization path. The company's failed acquisition of enterprise AI firm Manus highlights its ne…
A developer argues that 'Operational AI'—systems that act in the real world—is the most consequential and misinterpreted type of AI. Unlike functional or agentic AI, operational AI is an execution layer that carries real…
Goldman Sachs researchers warn that college graduates could be the first to feel AI's impact on the job market, as adoption accelerates in white-collar industries like finance and professional services where degree holde…
Midjourney is asking a federal court to overturn a magistrate judge's order that allowed Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, and Universal Studios to withhold most information about their AI use in a copyright infringement l…
Google has quietly installed a new app called 'Signatures' on Android devices via the June 2026 Play system update, allowing users to store legal signatures without public announcement. The app, spotted on Pixel, Samsung…
The sale of the publicly owned Oakland Coliseum complex missed a June 30 deadline, but officials say the date is no longer a serious checkpoint. The $240 million deal faces complications including a lawsuit and a plan to…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company's AI reorganization over the past four months has not accelerated agent development as expected, admitting that the execution of job cuts and team restructuring wa…