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Developer Taylor Wimpey plans to build up to 600 homes on 27 hectares of green belt land in Walsall, with an Environmental Impact Assessment application submitted and withdrawn. The site is part of Walsall Council's draf…
Bureau Veritas entered exclusive negotiations to sell its Oil & Petrochemicals and Coal testing and inspection business to Triton Partners for EUR 470 million, aligning with its LEAP | 28 strategy to focus on higher-grow…
California Governor Gavin Newsom partnered with Anthropic on June 29 to deploy the Claude AI assistant across state agencies, cities, and counties at a 50% discount. The deal includes free workforce training and technica…
A survey by OMFIF found that for the first time, more central banks plan to cut dollar holdings than increase them over the next decade, citing U.S. political risks. The survey of 90 institutions managing $10 trillion al…
Kazakhstan and Georgia are expanding cooperation in artificial intelligence, transport, and investments, following talks between Prime Ministers Olzhas Bektenov and Irakli Kobakhidze in Astana. The leaders confirmed thei…
An AP/FRONTLINE investigation reveals that American technology powers global cyberscam operations, connecting victims like Chris Colocousis, who lost $400,000 to a romance scam, and trafficked workers like Safeer Mohamme…
An AP/FRONTLINE investigation found that American technology companies, including OpenAI, Google, and Starlink, are enabling global cyberscams at industrial scale, with AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini used to automate f…
GitHub Copilot switched to metered AI Credits billing on June 1, 2026, causing some Pro+ users to exhaust their monthly allocation in under two days due to high token consumption from frontier models like GPT-5.5. The ch…
The S&P 500 crossed 7,600 for the first time in June and is closing Q2 2026 with roughly 11% gains, powered almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending. The rally is cracking open an IPO and funding window that was shu…
A report from Ramp and Revelio Labs analyzing nearly 22,000 companies found that firms spending heavily on AI grew headcount by 10.2%, including entry-level roles, countering fears of widespread job losses. However, the …
A Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance survey of 5,173 U.S. adults found that 12% of successful scams in 2025 involved AI or deepfakes, with Americans losing an estimated $68 billion to scams last year. The survey indicates ab…
A new audit of over twenty African NLP corpus families reveals widespread license incompatibilities, including CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-NC datasets that cannot be legally combined and NoDerivs clauses that prohibit tokenisatio…
Researchers used evolutionary game theory to model when a harm-minimizing AI agent can outcompete an approval-seeking (RLHF) agent in a competitive market. They found adoption depends on specific properties of community …
Diplomacy remains a crucial tool for managing cross-border issues in the age of AI, according to a Korea Times commentary. The piece emphasizes that traditional diplomatic tools are essential for negotiations among state…
Diplomacy, a centuries-old tool for state and private negotiations, is undergoing profound transformation in the age of artificial intelligence, as traditional practices prove insufficient for the rapidly evolving AI era…
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could dramatically raise global living standards but also threatens mass unemployment and social unrest, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned in a blog post. Altman emphasized the need to na…
Europe must prioritize choice in AI sovereignty to lead in the field, argues a sponsor-generated piece on POLITICO. The content emphasizes that true sovereignty requires enabling diverse AI options rather than relying on…
Google VP Liz Reid argued that personalized search and preferred sources can help small publishers gain visibility, countering concerns that personalization makes them less accessible. Reid stated that generic search res…
Enterprises are granting autonomous AI agents privileged access to critical workflows and APIs without proper governance, creating a new class of privileged non-human identities (NHIs). The scale and autonomy of these ag…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that US export controls on advanced chips are inadvertently accelerating Chinese AI innovation, citing DeepSeek's advances in memory-efficient models. He warned that China's abil…