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Papst Leo XIV. exkommunizierte die erzkonservative Piusbruderschaft, nachdem diese ohne päpstliche Zustimmung vier Bischöfe geweiht hatte. Die Bruderschaft verstieß damit gegen das kanonische Recht, trotz vorheriger Warn…
Author describes growing global opposition to data centers, citing protests and blocked projects in England, Australia, Canada, and the US, driven by rising power bills, water pollution, and noise. The new book "Hypersca…
Weird Al" Yankovic withdrew from a commercial for a business software company after discovering it is an artificial intelligence company. The musician made the decision while on his "Bigger and Weirder" tour in Syracuse,…
Anthropic is blocking Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they circumvent restrictions via VPNs and overseas subsidiaries. Alibaba banned internal use of the tool after disc…
GitHub, Mozilla, Hugging Face, and other LLM-gen-AI companies oppose updates to the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act (SB 1000), arguing that provisions requiring revocation of licenses for modified sys…
Workday has adopted a hybrid subscription/consumption pricing model for its agentic AI, using Flex Credits that customers consume per task. The shift reflects an industry trend where AI costs are layered on top of existi…
Israel and Argentina launched the Isaac Accords on April 19, including an AI cooperation memorandum that commits both governments to sharing supercomputing infrastructure and joint research. The deal aims to give Israeli…
Journalist Karen Hao reported in a Democracy Now! interview that OpenAI contracted Kenyan workers for a few dollars an hour to review graphic AI-generated text for safety filters, and a Google-linked data center in Chile…
Negotiations between Google DeepMind and London-based employees over unionization stalled after an initial meeting lacked senior management attendance, leaving union representatives frustrated. The unionization push bega…
Actor Preity Zinta has asked the Bombay High Court to order Google, Meta, X Corp and others to remove AI-generated deepfake videos and morphed images using her likeness. On July 3, 2026, Justice Madhav Jamdar ruled she m…
The AI ecosystem's rapid pace is causing friction with slower-moving societal layers, leading to backlash and instability. Mike Migurski introduced Stewart Brand's Pace Layers framework to analyze how fast-moving AI comp…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has built a nine-figure real estate portfolio with as many as 20 properties worldwide, including a $120 million former monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, and a $46 million mansion in Miami. Karp, wor…
The Silicon Data LLM Token Expenditure Index, a measure of daily AI usage spending, has fallen 20% from its May peak to $1.62 per million tokens, signaling a potential slowdown in AI adoption. The decline could stem from…
CLR announced the Safe Pareto Improvements (SPI) Fundamentals Program, an online course from August 3-28 to train researchers on mitigating AI conflict risks. The program aims to address the neglected area of SPI researc…
Hasbro faces backlash after requiring child voice actors for 'Peppa Pig' to sign contracts allowing their voices to be used for AI purposes. The Agents of Young Performers Association condemned the practice, arguing chil…
Andy Burnham, expected to become UK prime minister as soon as July 20, 2026, is reportedly set to end the NHS's 330-million-pound data contract with Palantir, according to multiple UK outlets. The Palantir-built Federate…
The semiconductor industry group SEMI warned the Trump administration against intervening in the memory chip market, arguing that price or production controls would worsen the ongoing shortage driven by AI demand. The gr…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company's AI agent development has stalled despite massive investment, while its mandatory employee keystroke and mouse-tracking surveillance system worked flawlessly. The surve…
Jodie Foster criticized the film 'F1' as feeling like it was made by AI, citing its formulaic structure and predictable dialogue. She discussed AI's growing impact on Hollywood, noting job displacement but also potential…
Віталій Міняйло, CEO Neurotrack, заявив, що штучний інтелект змінить не лише ринок праці, а й саму модель економіки, зокрема через автоматизацію рутинних завдань програмістів, бухгалтерів та юристів. Він наголосив на риз…