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Bank of America strategists warned that AI stock concentration has reached levels seen before previous market bubbles, with the 'AI Big 10' now comprising 41% of the S&P 500, similar to tech and telecom during the dot-co…
ER Steel, a global structural steel fabricator, argues that responsible AI infrastructure development requires integrated construction coordination, modular fabrication, and energy diversification, not just speed. With d…
Microsoft is reportedly planning another round of layoffs affecting less than 2.5% of its workforce, just months after cutting thousands of jobs, as the company prioritizes AI development. The cuts are expected to impact…
The U.S. Commerce Department has lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the company agreed to implement new guardrails and classifiers to prevent jailbreaks. The restrictions were impo…
Money-saving expert Martin Lewis said he is 'losing this battle' against AI-generated scams using his face, voice, and name to trick people into fake investment schemes, with victims continuing to lose significant sums d…
Habitual publisher traffic is collapsing as AI bot traffic surged 187% in 2025 while human traffic grew only 3.1%, eroding the click-based value exchange. Direct traffic to major publishers fell 19.9% to 33.1% over three…
US President Donald Trump said progress was made in indirect talks with Iran, as technical discussions in Qatar continued between envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The talks aim to convert an interim truce into las…
Central banks, including the ECB and Federal Reserve, are evaluating whether artificial intelligence will drive inflation, with potential policy shifts on the horizon. Kevin Warsh emphasized the central bank's role in as…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said the central bank must determine whether artificial intelligence is contributing to inflation, describing AI as 'structurally disinflationary' in contrast to other Fed officials who …
Anthropic faces allegations of embedding spyware-like code in its Claude AI model to detect connections linked to China, raising compliance and safety concerns that may delay the restoration of Claude Fable 5 in the US. …
Kevin Warsh, a prominent figure in monetary policy, said the central bank must determine whether artificial intelligence has an inflationary impact, adding to the debate over potential Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2026. …
An engineer at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 presented a security framework for AI agents, advocating for a 'deny all by default' approach with layered defenses including kernel-level system call filtering, network acces…
The Trump administration restricted access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models for foreign nationals on June 12, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disabled both models entirely to comply, lead…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls and women from school athletic teams, sparking sharp division in California. Supporters like Chino Valley school board president Sonja Shaw called it a v…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, bringing agentic capabilities like browser use, terminal work, and multi-step tool execution to its cheaper Sonnet tier and making it the default for Free and Pro users. The…
A growing gap between insider and outsider access to frontier AI models threatens the effectiveness of external safety research, with government restrictions and deployment lags likely to widen the divide. The author arg…
PC sales in the U.S. fell 7% in Q1 2025 to 15.8 million units, driven by rising component costs and fading demand for sub-$500 laptops, which saw an 18.7% sales drop. Memory makers prioritizing AI server demand have sque…
Cloudflare introduces the Agentic Internet, a framework requiring AI to pay for content access, merging finance and computation. The initiative aims to establish economic accountability for AI transactions, urging tech l…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also rebranded its Pay Per C…
A Stanford study of 12,000 companies found that high AI-adoption firms grew headcount by 10.2% and entry-level hiring by 12% over 18 months, while low-AI firms shrank by 1.8%. The data challenges the narrative that AI el…