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Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., warned of the Trump administration's 'fetishization' of Silicon Valley startups and announced plans to scrutinize contracting practices, revive federal IT oversight, and push for AI policy i…
CIA and FBI leaders are resisting a Trump administration demand to compile a master list of every US spy and potential recruit, fearing a single leak could compromise operations and endanger agents. The Office of the Dir…
Enterprise AI coding adoption has shifted from experimentation to infrastructure, with cost control and usage visibility becoming top priorities. At Gartner's summit, attendees focused on managing spiraling AI costs, as …
Nearly 400 local newspaper publishers in the US have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their copyrighted journalism without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT. The publishe…
The European Commission has issued a call for tenders for a study on the European data market covering 2027–2028. The study will monitor data and AI trends to support EU digital policy, including the Digital Decade and D…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026, setting the stage for a potential public offering in late 2026. The company's valuation approaches $1 trillion …
Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestically developed chips, claiming it as the first of its scale to achieve end-to-end training on Chinese silicon. The move directly…
Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter large language model with a 1-million-token context window, trained from scratch on a 50,000-chip domestic compute cluster. The company claims it is…
The AI buildout is being slowed by grid interconnection bottlenecks, not a lack of electricity. Projects like OpenAI and Softbank's Stargate in Texas require up to 1.2 gigawatts, but median interconnection wait times hav…
US political campaigns from both parties now use AI for tasks like vetting opponents and micro-targeting voters, according to a New York Times report. The technology remains a political minefield, and Europe is adopting …
A developer discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code client contains a covert channel that exfiltrates user environment data via steganographic character variations in the system prompt. The embedded JavaScript encodes wh…
Managed service providers in 2026 face rising consolidation, compliance burdens, and AI adoption pressures, according to Cloudtweaks. MSPs are investing in automation and security tooling to manage operational complexity…
Lawyers for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) were sanctioned by a federal judge after filing legal briefs containing fake citations generated by AI, and their corrected brief included additional fabrica…
The future of artificial intelligence will be determined by control over physical infrastructure—semiconductor factories, data centers, cloud networks, and power plants—rather than by algorithms or chatbots. The United S…
The Bank of England is warning that autonomous AI trading agents could trigger a market crisis by herding into identical decisions at machine speed, turning manageable stress into systemic collapse. Deputy Governor Sarah…
A video purportedly showing an iPhone 18 Pro drop test, described as the biggest leak in Apple history, circulated on social media after a ransomware attack on an Apple manufacturer. The leak's authenticity is questioned…
Industry leaders and officials at the South China Morning Post's GBA-Asean Summit 2026 said ASEAN hopes to tap the Greater Bay Area's expertise in AI and green technology through closer ties, with Hong Kong poised to ben…
Meta has imposed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, fearing inadvertent model distillation that could breach rivals' terms of service and trigger leg…
School was designed to manufacture obedient factory workers for a 19th-century economy, but that economy no longer exists. Credential inflation has devalued degrees, and autodidacts with AI tools now outperform classroom…
Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder's 1975 principle of least privilege (PoLP) is increasingly inadequate for modern cloud, microservices, and AI systems, according to a developer's analysis. The original assumptions of…