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Experts warned at the International Anti-Corruption Forum in Seoul that AI can both fight and conceal corruption, citing risks of algorithmic opacity and bias. UNDP advisor Anga Timilsina highlighted the digital divide l…
The Iran war exposed Japan's heavy reliance on the Strait of Hormuz, through which it received over 93% of its oil imports, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration responded by strengthening fossil fuel infras…
A new report from Writer reveals that 94% of executives face board pressure to do more with less, yet fewer than 1 in 4 report significant ROI from AI agents, as panic-driven AI adoption leads to 'AI theater' rather than…
Frontier large language models should be regulated as common carriers, allowing customers to use outputs for any lawful purpose including model distillation, argues a recent analysis. The proposal compares LLMs to teleph…
Apple responded to a class action lawsuit filed by three YouTube channels—h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics—arguing that it lawfully accessed publicly available videos under the DMCA and YouTube's Terms o…
Alison Kilburn, analysis director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, has been appointed joint head of the Government Economic Service, bringing AI expertise to the role. She will work alongside Pro…
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk's xAI over its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, where residents of the predominantly Black Boxtown neighborhood report noise and air pollution from up to 35…
Tesla will cap employee AI spending at $200 per week starting July 6, according to an internal memo. The move comes months after the company urged workers to use AI more aggressively, highlighting challenges in managing …
The White House is controlling access to GPT-5.6 by rationing throughput, the speed of pattern recognition, rather than the information itself. This mirrors historical priest-class tactics of controlling the tempo of und…
Cloudflare blocked access to a website titled 'Protect your right to run local AI' due to suspected phishing, warning users of potential data theft. The site was flagged for falsely presenting as a safe source.
The US Department of Energy is considering rolling back energy-efficiency requirements for appliances, potentially ending decades of standards that have reduced energy consumption and utility costs for consumers.
Forbes published a headline claiming women who use AI are seen as incompetent while men are seen as pragmatic, based on a study by Code For Good Now, a thinktank founded by a former Meta strategist. The study lacks publi…
MeetingTV sued Palo Alto Networks and its Koi Security unit after an AI-generated threat report falsely accused the startup of supporting Chinese espionage. The lawsuit claims Koi's LLM-based analysis hallucinated links …
SSH key exchange failures are occurring when modern laptops attempt to connect to legacy network devices that only support weak cryptographic algorithms like SHA-1 and CBC ciphers. OpenSSH has disabled these algorithms b…
Court documents reveal tense email exchanges between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon official Emil Michael, leading to the AI lab's split with the Department of Defense over concerns about using AI for autonomous…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's refusal to allow its AI models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons led to a federal blacklist, two court fights, and the first export-control takedown of a commercial frontier AI mod…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion, with CEO Sam Altman pitching the idea to President Trump and top officials. The plan aims to democratize AI's economic benefits and inc…
Historian Yuval Noah Harari warned in a May 21 lecture at Oxford that AI will first seize power through bureaucracy, finance, law, and religion rather than through robots or armed conflict. He argued that AI systems, as …
Cloudflare announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index sites for search engines and also serve AI companies, starting September 15, 2026. The hosting platform will default to blocking AI trai…
Anthropic's AI model Fable is once again accessible to Canadian users after the US lifted a ban that was imposed due to a jailbreak exploit. The company noted that the same vulnerability affected other AI models as well.