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An Iranian hardliner, Hussein Shariatmadari, demanded that revenge for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death must occur on American soil and that President Trump be extradited to Tehran for trial. Shariatmadari, appointed by Kh…
Air Canada was ordered to pay CAD $812.02 in damages after its chatbot provided false bereavement fare information, and attorney Steven Schwartz was fined $5,000 for submitting a legal brief with fabricated cases generat…
A Boston University study found that treating AI agents as "employees" rather than tools leads human workers to catch 18% fewer errors and offload accountability. Researchers warn that marketing AI as digital coworkers s…
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu argues that hyperscaler AI spending is not heading for a bust, comparing it to Amazon's early infrastructure investment. He notes that while profits are thin due to reinvestment, revenue exist…
Palantir and Nvidia are partnering to develop a new AI platform for government agencies, aiming to shift control of AI systems from contractors to the government itself. The collaboration combines Palantir's data integra…
This summer's extreme heat has exposed critical vulnerabilities in global data centers, with PJM Interconnection receiving emergency authorization to curtail power in Virginia, French nuclear plants shutting down at 44.3…
Nearly 400 local newspapers across 33 states sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York, alleging the companies illegally scraped copyrighted articles—including paywalled content—to train AI models without co…
The Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) filed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), finding no evidence of campaign finance violations or sexual misconduct. The committee inve…
Google is warning that the European Union's Digital Markets Act, which would force the company to open its search data and Android operating system to competitors, will lead to increased fraud and security risks. Critics…
TIDAL will allow fully AI-generated music on its platform but will block it from earning royalties, effective June 29. The policy, which also includes AI badges and removal of fraudulent content, aims to protect human ar…
The US government suspended access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12 under an export control directive, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disabled the models for all customers to comply,…
Nicki Minaj sparked backlash after posting a birthday tribute to Elon Musk on X, thanking him for 'saving free speech.' The post, which included a selfie and praise for Musk's leadership at X and SpaceX, reignited debate…
Grantmaking.ai launched a $1M grant round for projects reducing existential risk from AI, offering $5k to $50k per application. Applications are reviewed by Gavin Leech, Ryan Kidd, and Marcus Abramovitch, with priority r…
AI will worsen biological extinction risks in the near term by accelerating scientific progress, enabling the development of extinction-level pathogens sooner, even if AI models refuse to assist directly. The argument th…
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 open-weight model matches Anthropic's Mythos in cybersecurity benchmarks, raising concerns that US export controls have failed to slow China's AI progress. The model's open-weight nature allows unrestr…
A developer argues that frontier AI development is being enclosed by a small number of labs and Washington policymakers, who together control access to advanced models and set the terms of their use. The piece warns that…
TIDAL will tag fully AI-generated music with an AI badge, block it from royalties and direct-to-fan sales, and remove AI tracks that impersonate artists, effective July 15. The streaming service aims to protect human art…
California signed a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to provide state agencies and local governments access to the Claude AI assistant at a 50% discount, along with free training and technical support. The AI will h…
Andy Burnham delivered a speech at Manchester's People's History Museum outlining a vision of council houses, factories, and state control of utilities, which critics say looks backward rather than forward. The speech la…
Chinese AI models have caught up to top US systems in cybersecurity, with Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 matching Anthropic's Mythos in bug-finding scenarios, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The narrowing gap pressures th…