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Iran retaliated against U.S. strikes by hitting American-linked targets, casting doubt on President Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. Iran's foreign minister accused the U.S. of treaty breaking, escalating t…
India and US mobilized private sector for AI and chip projects at a June 25 Washington roundtable, with officials from both countries seeking to derisk private capital through durable demand signals. Indian officials hig…
A contrarian view from Citi Research's Andrew Hollenhorst and Brookings' Robin Brooks argues that the Federal Reserve will cut rates later this year, contrary to Wall Street expectations of hikes, citing weakening payrol…
AI data centers consumed about 1.5% of global electricity in 2024, projected to reach under 3% by 2030, but local impacts are severe: in Ireland they use 22% of national electricity, and in the US they could reach 6.7-12…
Developer Simon Willison replaced Anthropic's Claude Code with OpenCode after losing trust in Anthropic due to the Fable 5 silent downgrade controversy and export-control issues. He cites open standards and open source a…
A UBS report reveals Chinese AI models cost up to 50 times less than US counterparts, with prices as low as $2-$3 per million output tokens versus $15 for comparable US models. About 60% of companies are migrating worklo…
MobileGuard, a mobile-native governance framework for agentic AI, was announced but access to its details is restricted due to unusual traffic from the user's network. The framework aims to address governance challenges …
China's AI and robotics firms face a reality check as they pursue IPOs on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Star Market, where public market pricing will test the premiums built during private funding rounds. The exchange ha…
The U.S. government imposed its first preemptive restriction on a frontier AI model, limiting access to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family and Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5. OpenAI released three GPT-5.6 variants to 20 government-vet…
A new Politico report reveals that major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are urging the Trump administration to provide clearer guidelines on what is unacceptable in AI development, even as they face increa…
SpaceX filed its S-1 IPO prospectus in May 2026, triggering a wave of tech listings. Anthropic and OpenAI confidentially filed their own draft prospectuses on June 1 and June 8, respectively, aiming for public debuts in …
Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for its chatbot posing as a doctor, and Pope Leo XIV issued the first papal encyclical on AI, both targeting accountability for AI companions. A wrongful death suit over a teen's suicide ad…
SpaceX filed two trademark applications for 'SpaceXAI' with the USPTO in May 2026, covering satellite-based data centers, orbital computing, and AI software-as-a-service. The filings follow SpaceX's February acquisition …
A commentator argues that the real danger of AI is not it enslaving humanity, but rather governments and Big Tech capturing and controlling AI for the benefit of the few, urging a fight to free AI for everyone.
Researchers demonstrated that AI coding agents can be exploited through malicious GitHub repositories that appear clean to static scanners and human reviewers. The attack leverages the agent's autonomous execution of set…
A new study from Stanford University and other institutions found that labeling political messages as AI-generated does not reduce their persuasive impact. Researchers surveyed 1,601 Americans and discovered that partici…
Humboldt County Sheriff's Office investigators exhumed at least 117 dogs from Miranda's Rescue this week, with many showing bullet fragments, confirming allegations of animal cruelty and fraud detailed in a search warran…
Chinese hedge funds are warning that the artificial intelligence market is a 'super bubble' poised to burst, according to a Bloomberg report. The funds caution that inflated valuations and speculative investment in AI co…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delayed the release of GPT-5.6 at the government's request, reducing the probability of a June 30 launch to 1.8% and increasing expectations for a July 31 release to 88%.
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6, a new family of three models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with enhanced safety safeguards, ahead of broader release. The models show a meaningful step up in cybersecurity capability but do not reach the…