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Anthropic released its most capable AI models, Fable and Mythos, on June 9, but three days later a U.S. government export-control directive forced the company to suspend access for all customers globally, as it could not…
Apple has raised prices by up to 30% across its product line, including Macs, iPads, and the Vision Pro, citing a memory chip shortage driven by AI data center demand. Critics argue the company, sitting on $112 billion i…
Iran was eliminated from the World Cup after Austria scored a last-second goal to tie Algeria, denying Iran advancement on tiebreakers. The team played amid tight U.S. travel restrictions and geopolitical tensions, inclu…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal in his ECON 1170 class, with at least 50 students using AI to cheat on a midterm exam. Serrano says the university administration has be…
Students worldwide are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on exams, prompting countries like China, the UK, South Korea, and Taiwan to tighten screening and review policies. Experts warn that undetected cases are li…
Iran launched drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait on Sunday in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes, threatening to halt negotiations if Washington continues its attacks. The strikes targeted Gulf states hosting U…
Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH-funded study from M…
About 40 activists gathered in New York's Sara D. Roosevelt Park to protest AI and OpenAI, calling for a boycott of ChatGPT and accusing AI companies of lobbying against regulation and attempting to buy elections. The pr…
Karnataka's plan to build India's first AI-focused smart township in Bidadi faces a land acquisition hurdle as farmers oppose the 499-acre initial phase. The state government issued a final notification to acquire land a…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation and filed a confidential IPO, positioning it as the most valuable AI startup. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia hold stakes, while export…
A developer reports losing $2,890.35 to the fraudulent platform crookcrypto.xyz, which uses a malicious interface to mimic a legitimate DeFi trading portal. The scam lures victims with promises of utility tools like arbi…
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warned in its annual economic report that the artificial intelligence investment boom could end in a prolonged crash, drawing parallels to the late-1990s dot-com bubble. The c…
Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns du…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI boom could trigger a global recession and eliminate middle-class jobs, comparing current investment to historical manias like the dotcom bubble. The BIS cautioned…
The US government ordered OpenAI to restrict the release of its new GPT-5.6 model, allowing access only to government-approved partners. The directive, issued by the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office o…
Sunnyvale ranked No. 7 among midsize cities in CoworkingCafe's annual study of top cities for college graduates, slipping from second place last year due to a $22,400 income correction and rising youth unemployment. The …
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion budget that extends sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web, raising $2 billion annually starting in fiscal year 202…
Sam Ro argues against the common advice to ignore jarring headlines, stating that investors should instead confront bad news to build resilience and learn from past market downturns. He emphasizes that understanding hist…
Frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic use offline monitoring to detect misaligned actions by internal AI agents, but current public reporting on the effectiveness of these systems is insufficient. A new analysi…
A Hacker News user questions whether the U.S. policy of preliminary vetting for state-of-the-art large language models, restricting releases to trusted parties, could slow AI research and development by limiting market s…