AI Policy

A group of California drivers sued BP, Walmart, 7-Eleven, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum and Albertsons on June 22, 2026, alleging the retailers used AI-powered pricing software from Kalibrate to artificially inflate gasol…

TIDAL will strip royalties from fully AI-generated tracks starting July 15, 2026, becoming the first major streaming platform to demonetize such content. The policy, which includes automatic detection and AI badges, targ…

Cisco plans to lay off 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to notices filed with California's Employment Development Department. The cuts come as the company restructures to prioritize investments in artific…

A historical pattern of gold rushes, from the 1853 discovery of Crater Lake by gold prospectors to the modern AI data-center boom, illustrates that while invention may accelerate, the diffusion of technology through infr…

The Australian Centre for AI in Marketing (ACAM) reports that marketers are struggling to adopt agentic AI despite high expectations, with a global Adobe survey of 3,000 executives finding 63% expect it to free time for …

Taiwanese authorities raided Supermicro's Taiwan office and eight other locations as part of a U.S. federal probe into alleged AI chip smuggling to China, signaling a potential shift in Taiwan's enforcement of U.S. expor…

The European Union's Tech Sovereignty Package aims to triple data center capacity within five to seven years to reduce reliance on American cloud providers, but faces power and planning challenges. Iceland offers abundan…

Meta ran a contractor project that had workers pose as minors and test rival chatbots with prompts about suicide, sex, eating disorders, and drugs, according to WIRED. The project, known as Cannes and managed by contract…

Australian universities are using AI detection software to accuse students of cheating, with internal documents from Australian Catholic University showing nearly 6,000 misconduct referrals in a year, 90% involving suspe…

Between January and June 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google made 14 combined pricing changes across their LLM model lineups, with some prices dropping, others rising, and models being deprecated and replaced by pricier …

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a partnership with Anthropic to provide state and local agencies with discounted access to the Claude AI assistant through a new IT services portal. The California Department of…

A website reveals the personal data any site can access about visitors, including IP address, location, browser, operating system, and screen resolution, often without explicit permission. The information is used for fra…

Columnist Cindy Adams shares anecdotes from her three-month honeymoon with late husband Joey Adams, including bargaining in Paris and a sheikh's offer in Israel, then pivots to commentary on summer theater, Iran's nuclea…

South Korea announced a $518 billion semiconductor push to maintain its technological edge over China, led by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The plan includes building a second chipmaking hub in the southwest and larg…

Agentic AI systems are maturing from prototypes into production-grade infrastructure, with vLLM's Micro-Agent framework demonstrating that serving-layer orchestration can match or beat frontier models without retraining.…

South Korea's Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan announced on June 29 that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will invest 800 trillion won ($518.3 billion) to build a semiconductor cluster in the southwestern Gwangju and Jeol…

Hugging Face and the EvalEval Coalition launched an integration that allows contributors to submit standardized evaluation results (EEE schema) to Hugging Face Community Evals, consolidating scattered benchmark scores in…

Public software markets reveal CIOs are prioritizing AI infrastructure and security over business applications, with Infrastructure & Dev Tools up 68.5% and Security up 17.6% in the past year, while Business Applications…

ContextNest launches a governed AI retrieval engine that replaces probabilistic vector search with deterministic, auditable context delivery for customer-facing AI agents. The platform sits underneath existing AI tools t…

Anthropic's Claude models became generally available on Microsoft Foundry, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, as part of a strategic partnership involving a $30 billion Azure compute commitment. The launch mak…