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Amazon faces higher costs under a renegotiated token-based pricing contract with Anthropic, prompting the e-commerce giant to explore alternatives including a potential deal with OpenAI. The tensions escalated after Amaz…
Qihoo 360 founder Zhou Hongyi unveiled Tulong Feng, an AI vulnerability agent, at ISC.AI 2026, claiming it as China's answer to Anthropic's Mythos. Separately, Z.ai released GLM-5.2 under an MIT license, which outperform…
President Donald Trump refused to commit to signing a major bipartisan housing bill, heightening uncertainty over its fate. Trump criticized the legislation as unimportant compared to a voting bill he is pressuring the S…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol on June 26, its most capable model, but access is restricted to about 20 organizations individually approved by the US government. The model outperforms Claude Mythos 5 on coding and reasoning…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was access and power, as they…
Cybersecurity teams are struggling to keep up with rapid AI adoption as employees use thousands of AI tools without organizational oversight, creating data security blind spots. Fortinet executive Robert May warns that s…
Senator Mark Warner is preparing a discussion draft bill that would impose a "duty of loyalty" on AI agents, requiring them to prioritize users' interests over those of developers, platforms, or advertisers. The proposal…
Brentwood councilmembers Faye Maloney and Jovita Mendoza are seeking an ordinance to ban new data centers in the city, citing concerns over resource use, environmental impacts, and limited industrial land. The move follo…
Executives report that AI is not yet delivering ROI but remain committed to figuring it out, according to Garrett Lord. The article argues that evaluations (evals) will become the strategic intellectual property defining…
A wave of bipartisan federal bills is targeting how AI companies collect and monetize personal health data, threatening the business models of digital health startups that rely on selling user data. Senators have introdu…
Tidal will stop paying royalties on tracks identified as wholly AI-generated, effective immediately, and will add an "AI" badge to such tracks starting July 15. The streaming platform aims to ensure royalties go to human…
Antioch will decide in July whether to accept a $34.9 million state Homekey+ grant to convert a hotel into 85 supportive housing units for the homeless, amid concerns over a budget deficit and long-term operational costs…
Tidal announced it will not pay royalties on music identified as 100% AI-generated, effective immediately, and will label such tracks with an icon starting July 15th. The platform aims to protect artists and inform liste…
Germany is awarding a €580mn contract to Munich AI firm Helsing to build the software brain for its future air warfare system, the Combat Fighter System Nucleus, after the joint Franco-German fighter jet project collapse…
Google has launched a Gemini-powered 'Take notes for me' feature for Google Meet, available to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers at $19.99 per month, which transcribes, summarizes, and stores conversations in Google Drive. Cr…
A recent Pew Research report found that 40% of Americans expect AI to negatively impact society, with 63% saying AI is advancing too quickly, fueling a tech-lash that includes resistance to data centers and a resurgence …
A coalition of former governors, big tech companies, and nonprofits has raised $500 million to help U.S. workers navigate AI-driven job disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. E…
Music streaming service Tidal announced it will not pay royalties for wholly AI-generated music, stating its priority is ensuring royalties go to original works produced by people. The company will label AI-generated con…
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 on June 26, 2026, but the model is restricted to a small group of partners pending a national-security review, with general availability weeks away and API-only access. Open-weight models now tra…
Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with OpenAI to accelerate deployment of mission-ready AI solutions for government and enterprise clients, integrating OpenAI's frontier models into secure, scalable environments for nati…