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Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University found that students scored an average of 96 on a take-home midterm but only 48 on an in-person final, revealing that AI contributed more to the assessment than the students t…
The House passed the KIDS Act, requiring online platforms to limit minors' access to sexual material, provide parental controls, and mandate age verification, but the Senate seeks stricter measures imposing a legal duty …
California Governor Gavin Newsom reversed his opposition to new homelessness funding, agreeing to a $900 million budget for the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention grant program. The compromise requires stricter …
Project 2029, a liberal group creating a Democratic policy roadmap for the 2028 election, proposed banning social media for children under 16 and regulating AI chatbots. The 'Kids Over Clicks' plan, supported by Sen. Cor…
A letter to the editor criticizes news media for reducing elections to popularity contests, urging newspapers to focus on candidates' histories, policies, and financial backers rather than polling numbers. The author arg…
Apple accelerated the release of iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, and macOS 26.5.2 to address security fixes originally planned for version 26.6, citing the need to reduce exploitation time as AI-powered hacking tools become m…
The Vatican established an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence on May 16, holding its first meeting on June 17 at Palazzo San Callisto to inventory AI initiatives and draft usage guidelines, building o…
California state senators Josh Becker and Ben Allen introduced the Wartime Price Gouging Prevention Act to expand the attorney general's power to investigate price gouging on essential goods like gasoline during military…
A letter writer praises food service workers at World Cup watch parties in the Bay Area, noting they work harder under pressure as businesses struggle to meet demand. Another letter supports UN calls for AI companies to …
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, Luna) to 20 trusted partners on June 26, 2026, with public launch expected by July 2026. The Sol variant shows enhanced cybersecurity capabilities, influencing prediction marke…
Tidal will label fully AI-generated music with an "AI" icon starting mid-July and remove fraudulent or deceptive tracks, while also stripping royalties from AI-generated songs to ensure only human-created music is moneti…
The US Commerce Department partially lifted a ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, restoring access to over 100 vetted US entities while keeping the Fable 5 model completely restricted. The original ban, imposed two wee…
Rep. Nancy Pelosi will launch the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at UC Berkeley in January 2027, aiming to strengthen democratic institutions and train future public leaders. The nonpartisan institut…
Five Eyes intelligence agencies warned that frontier AI could transform cyber offense and defense within months, not years, urging organizations to embed cyber resilience as a core business priority. The joint statement …
Ford Motor Co. is rehiring about 350 veteran engineers, including former employees, after its AI-based quality systems failed to meet expectations. The automaker's executives acknowledged that they mistakenly believed AI…
A developer argues that women are less enthusiastic about AI than men due to systemic biases in AI development and marketing, which often overlook women's perspectives and needs. The piece highlights how AI products and …
A self-replicating worm called Miasma, attributed to threat actor TeamPCP, is targeting AI coding tools by injecting malicious hooks into configuration files of Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and Cursor. On Jun…
A new compliance evidence and audit-trail agent automates evidence collection for regulated environments by observing events, mapping them to a user-supplied control catalog, and sealing results into a verifiable log. Th…
The role of AI orchestration engineer barely exists as a formal title, yet the work of coordinating multiple AI agents is becoming the most consequential function in enterprise AI. Companies are discovering that individu…
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiries into AI companies…