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Google shut down Gemini CLI for individual developers on June 18, 2026, after accepting over 6,000 community pull requests, replacing it with the closed-source Antigravity CLI. The move broke existing pipelines and reduc…
Central Sanskrit University has launched an AICTE-approved B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at its Nashik campus for the 2026-27 academic session, with 66 seats available. The program, highlighted by Pr…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the artificial intelligence investment boom is funneling capital through loosely regulated non-bank channels, exposing the financial system to risks that could lead to a…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that an artificial-intelligence bust, inflation, and fiscal stress pose major threats to global prosperity, with underlying financial vulnerabilities that could amplify shock…
Qualcomm is challenging Nvidia's dominance in China by deploying custom AI chips designed to comply with local regulations, while L'Oréal uses Nvidia's AI to accelerate R&D. Japan's SIer industry faces a predicted declin…
Google has denied claims that its AI-powered Search features are reducing web traffic, stating that the technology actually drives more quality clicks to websites. The company's response comes amid publisher concerns tha…
Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to buy cheaper DRAM from Chinese manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), which is blacklisted by the Pentagon. While CXMT offers up to 30% cost savings,…
Policymakers should prepare for potential AI-driven labor market shocks, but a simple Job Guarantee may not be effective, according to an economist who warns that make-work jobs lack the purpose and skill development of …
The real regulator of frontier AI is not legislation but system design, as demonstrated by the US government's immediate suspension of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 via export controls rather than legal process…
A Hacker News user argues against replacing parliaments with large language models, calling the idea stupid and dangerous. The user claims AI would lead to human elimination and advocates for technocracy instead of democ…
South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi agreed to cooperate on artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies for defense, as well as maritime search and rescue …
South Korea and Japan's defense ministers agreed to resume bilateral maritime search-and-rescue exercises after a nine-year hiatus and to pursue discussions on artificial intelligence, as stated in a June 28 joint statem…
Meituan's LongCat-2.0-Preview, a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model trained entirely on Chinese domestic chips without NVIDIA hardware, has become the most-used model on OpenRouter under the alias Owl Alpha, processing over…
Marginal Revolution published a talk by Tyler Cowen arguing that AI will not eliminate all jobs, providing a concise overview of the reasons.
The Australian Financial Review's June 28, 2026 opinion piece argues that AI coverage oscillates between uncritical optimism and terror-inducing economic pessimism, conflating real tech layoffs with speculative mass-unem…
Israel's government approved a national AI program on June 16, 2026, targeting 100,000 processing units for sovereign compute, with infrastructure costs estimated at $20 billion to $30 billion by analysts. The plan, led …
South Korea's overhaul of its public health insurance reimbursement system, aimed at curbing medical spending, has raised concerns about restricting patient access to treatments like manual therapy and diagnostic tests. …
India is shifting GST compliance toward AI-led enforcement and cross-agency data integration, integrating databases from GST, income tax, and customs to improve risk assessment and curb evasion while reducing compliance …
Herald Media Group and the Korea Future eco-Mobility Service Association co-hosted the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul on Tuesday, bringing together mobility, AI and energy leaders from Korea, China, India and th…
European AI experts push back against the narrative of permanent American dominance, arguing that the gap between US proprietary models and open-source alternatives is narrowing. The persistence of the 'hopeless gap' sto…