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Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck announced the $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the satellite communications market, particularly in direct-to-mobile services. The deal positio…
A Democratic majority in Congress is expected to prioritize oversight and investigations of the administration and its business partners, focusing on AI governance, emerging technology, and national security supply chain…
Anthropic embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users, sending information such as timezone and proxy data by injecting it into prompt messages. The code routes metadata without u…
An unconfirmed leak on X claims Anthropic will release Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 with a promotional API price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, a 1 million token context, and a January 20…
The final matchups for three San Jose City Council seats are set for November, with Genny Altwer facing Gordon Chester in District 9, incumbent Peter Ortiz challenging Nora Campos in District 5, and incumbent Bien Doan r…
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) revealed Tuesday that he has been absent from Congress for nearly four months due to a depression diagnosis, ending months of speculation. Kean missed 142 votes since March 5 and faces a compet…
Federal Reserve-chefen Beth Hammack varnar för att AI-investeringar kan driva på inflationen, vilket kan kräva stramare penningpolitik. Uttalandet går emot andra bedömare som menar att AI kan öka produktiviteten och dämp…
A developer claims Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool secretly encodes China-related proxy signals into system prompts sent to its AI model, potentially creating a covert classification channel. The alleged mechanism check…
A Las Vegas nurse practitioner, Marizel Yukee, was charged in a $906 million healthcare fraud scheme that used stolen funds to buy a $594,000 Ferrari and an $865,000 necklace. The Department of Justice announced charges …
Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 2 quantum chip at Build conference on June 2, claiming a 1,000-fold improvement in qubit reliability, while President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22 to accelerate US quantum …
Google's algorithm update in late 2024 eliminated 45% of AI-generated content from search results, forcing B2B marketing teams to adapt. Survivors focused on original research, expert insights, and user-first content str…
The Bank of International Settlements warned that the AI investment boom poses systemic risks, with hyperscalers set to spend over a trillion dollars on AI capex from 2025-2026, outpacing earnings and free cash flow. Dis…
The Presidential Physical Fitness Test has been revived with only three tests, down from seven, after President Donald Trump signed an order in May restoring the program. Children exercised alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed fears about AI-related job displacement, arguing that a focus on empowering individuals rather than automating knowledge work could lead to more jobs. He contrasted Meta's vision with t…
The Pentagon is fast-tracking civilians with AI expertise into officer ranks to address concerns about slow adoption of frontier AI technology. The U.S. Army has commissioned Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colon…
Europe's AI opportunity lies not in competing for the largest frontier models but in building enterprise architectures that turn models into corporate intelligence, a race where Europe's strengths in formalization, gover…
The City of London Corporation launched a digital identity framework to combat AI-enabled fraud, estimating it could unlock over £5bn for the UK economy. The system, developed with EY and Hogan Lovells, allows consumers …
X launched a hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets AI tools like Claude and Cursor connect directly to its API using user account permissions, eliminating the need for developers to build custom integrations. Th…
Libby, the ebook-lending app from OverDrive, will introduce AI content filters that rely on self-labeling by publishers, allowing readers to opt out of AI-generated books, audiobooks, and translations. CEO Marc DeBevoise…
A federal lawsuit filed June 25 in California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology of colluding to fix DRAM prices, causing a 700% price surge since 2022. The complaint alleges the companies coordinated a shi…