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OpenAI is in early talks to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, a move that could improve relations with the Trump administration and share AI wealth with the public. The proposal, which may require congressional approv…
The Bank for International Settlements is amplifying bubble warnings as tech investors face a volatile summer amid sky-high valuations, with Founders Fund's Trae Stephens saying prices are 'untethered from reality' and P…
Rethink Priorities is seeking expressions of interest from potential founders to launch new organizations focused on highly neglected animal welfare issues, including insects, wild animals, and aquatic species, as well a…
Cloudflare is updating its AI crawler controls to categorize bots by behavior—search, agent, or training—and will block training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported sites starting September 15. The changes may …
OpenAI has proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake in the company to defuse regulatory pressure, according to reports. CEO Sam Altman pitched the plan to President Trump and other officials, suggesting al…
The Fedora Council has proposed pausing the Community Initiatives process, citing its ineffectiveness, and is closing discussion on the AI developer desktop initiative. Existing initiatives like Fedora Forge, Atomic, and…
Elon Musk's xAI data center in Memphis is emitting illegal levels of pollutants linked to health issues in Black neighborhoods, prompting a civil rights lawsuit. Musk's SpaceX is now offering discounted Starlink service …
A new Ibec report warns that Ireland risks failing to capitalize on a multi-billion euro AI opportunity without a shift to lifelong reskilling. The report, supported by Accenture, urges policymakers to revamp workforce d…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed donating 5% of the company's equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund to secure good relations with the administration and address political blowback, according to the Financial Times. The pr…
OpenAI proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in AI labs, including itself and Anthropic, to create a sovereign wealth fund worth an estimated $600 billion. The plan faces significant hurdles, as investors are un…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in early talks with the Trump administration about the US acquiring a 5% stake in the AI firm, a move aimed at sharing AI benefits with the public and countering negative public sentiment. The pr…
Linux kernel developers are debating whether to simplify or eliminate the requirement for AI/LLM agent attribution in patches, with prominent developer Christian Brauner arguing the current policy creates free advertisin…
HR brands are using digital PR to build authority and visibility in 2026 by tying their stories to data-driven insights on layoffs, AI disruption, hybrid work, pay transparency, and burnout, as seen in examples from Inde…
A new web standard, AI-aware robots.txt, allows site owners to control which AI crawlers can access their content, preventing silent exclusion from AI training data and answer corpora. The article provides implementation…
Hariskumar Panakkal of Wipro presented at the MCP Dev Summit in Bengaluru on deploying Model Context Protocol architectures in enterprise banking, highlighting three mandatory constraints: out-of-band PII isolation, end-…
Japan's Supreme Court ruled that artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an inventor on patent applications, affirming that only humans can be recognized as inventors under current patent law. The decision, which uph…
Fable AI has returned after a brief suspension, but the incident has set a precedent for export controls and rapid takedowns of AI models. Google is developing an 'Audio Memory' feature for Pixel phones that continuously…
Meta's new smart glasses collaboration with Kylie Jenner is promoted in an ad that fails to demonstrate any of the device's features, highlighting the ongoing challenge of making smart glasses socially acceptable after G…
Federal zero trust architectures face fundamental challenges from AI agents, which generate authentication volumes 148 times higher than humans and operate at machine speed, invalidating assumptions built around human us…
Cloudflare introduced new controls allowing website owners to manage AI traffic across three categories: Search, Agent, and Training, available to all customers including Free plan users. The feature aims to give content…