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An Associated Press and FRONTLINE investigation reveals that American AI models, internet infrastructure, and Starlink are powering a global scam industry based in Myanmar, where trafficked workers use AI tools to target…
Sen. Mark Warner unveiled the AI AGENT Act discussion draft on June 29, 2026, proposing an FTC registry for trusted AI agents and fiduciary-like duties for consumer protection. The draft targets large platforms with over…
Grindr CEO George Arison announced plans to make the dating app an AI-native company by imposing AI adoption on staff, hiring an AI tutor, and aiming for AI-generated code despite employee opposition and past privacy iss…
A guide advises workers to feign enthusiasm for AI to appease bosses suffering from 'AI psychosis,' recommending quick responses to AI-related messages and avoiding criticism. The author argues that career survival depen…
Colorado's Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 24-205) took effect June 30, 2026, imposing duties of reasonable care, disclosure, documentation, risk management, and consumer notice on developers and…
Exabeam launched Praxen, an open-source tool that verifies AI agent behavior against declared policies by analyzing source code, configurations, and logs. The tool addresses policy drift, which has caused security incide…
The internet's reliability as a repository of knowledge is threatened by a flood of disinformation and AI-generated content, known as AI slop, which makes it increasingly difficult to find accurate information. Psycholog…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the agency will take 'smart risks' and 'course correct' as it adopts AI, emphasizing it cannot wait for a risk-free approach. The CIA is aggressively embedding AI into operations, includi…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano uncovered what he calls the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history after 40 of 86 students scored a perfect 100 on a take-home exam, while the same students averaged …
A growing number of corporate managers are using AI tools like ChatGPT to make career-altering decisions, including promotions, raises, and layoffs, often without formal training. Employees report that bosses blindly fol…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment to embed forward deployed engineers within customer networks, aiming to help organizations become self-sufficient with AI. The role, which has seen job postings surge…
Anthropic's new AI model Mythos (Fable) is reportedly only marginally better than Claude Opus at coding tasks, with improvements largely attributed to higher compute demands and costs, according to sources cited from Cal…
Neon is nearing a deal to acquire Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project, citing it would be better served by a different studio. The $40 million film…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project days after announcin…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which outperforms its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and surpasses the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. The company noted th…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding NDA reportedly lacks financial penalties, relying instead on the threat of public shaming or disinvitation. The couple is now believed to be marrying Friday at Madison Square Garde…
Three U.S. government firefighters died in a Colorado wildfire as the Trump administration revives a discredited policy to suppress all wildfires quickly, reversing decades of using controlled burns to reduce fuel. The n…
Anti-migrant groups in South Africa set a June 30 deadline for undocumented foreigners to leave, prompting thousands to depart or seek assistance. President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected vigilantism, insisting immigration is …
Creative Commons co-founders Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Molly Van Houweling reflected on the organization's 25-year history during a fireside chat at the AI Impact Summit, recalling how a small bet on open licensi…
The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission aims to double U.S. research and development productivity within a decade by leveraging AI, high-performance computing, and quantum systems. Undersecretary Darío Gil announced t…