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The General Services Administration is taking a measured approach to taking over NASA's SEWP IT contract vehicle, prioritizing continuity to avoid disrupting agencies and vendors. GSA has embedded staff with the SEWP off…
OpenAI is postponing the general release of GPT-5.6 after the Trump administration requested a staggered rollout with government approval for each customer. The Office of National Cyber Director and the Office of Science…
The U.S. government issued export-control directives forcing Anthropic to take its latest models offline and prompting OpenAI to postpone GPT-5.6's release after White House officials raised security concerns. The action…
Proof launched x401, an open protocol that uses cryptographic credentials to verify human authorization behind AI agents, with contributions from Circle, OpenAI, Google, and Okta. The protocol extends HTTP to enable AI a…
The rise of AI coding tools has created a split between maintainers who ban AI-generated contributions to protect scarce review bandwidth and developers who embrace agents for rapid prototyping. A 2025 METR study found t…
Brazilian startup Gabriel uses AI-powered cameras to scan license plates and share data with police, aiming to solve theft cases in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. Critics raise privacy concerns after reve…
Oracle promised to open up MySQL governance but the community demands guarantees, highlighting ongoing tensions over control of the open-source database.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a federal minimum tax on billionaires and a national fund to give Americans a stake in AI-generated wealth, arguing the tax should be addressed at the federal level because billionai…
On-premises AI coding tools enable enterprises to safeguard sensitive code, ensure data residency, and maintain compliance without compromising performance. By deploying AI within their own infrastructure, organizations …
The Trump administration directed OpenAI to restrict the launch of its GPT-5.6 model over national security and cybersecurity concerns, marking the first time the federal government has preemptively limited a commercial …
OpenAI has not held pre-IPO meetings with investors or outlined a timeline for a public listing, according to CNBC, despite having confidentially filed a prospectus with the SEC. The New York Times reports OpenAI is lean…
Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams sued the company Thursday in federal court, alleging it is trying to silence her through an invalid arbitration order and a severance agreement signed under duress. The lawsuit c…
The Tech Humanist Show released an episode featuring host Kate O'Neill and guest Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, discussing AI augmentation versus automation, cognitive Darwinism, and workforce resk…
California Governor Gavin Newsom called for a nationwide billionaire tax and a federal AI equity fund, arguing that every American should own a piece of the future built by artificial intelligence. He opposed a Californi…
China's government issued a voluntary code of conduct for smart glasses manufacturers, urging them to obtain explicit consent before recording and to include LED recording indicators. The guidelines also promote a minimu…
Seven out of ten Americans oppose local AI data center construction, according to Gallup, with $64 billion in projects blocked or delayed nationwide. Opposition has spread across 24 states with 142 activist groups, drive…
California launched the nation's first state-level AI-Unemployment Tracker under Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order, revealing that college-educated workers in AI-exposed occupations, particularly in the San Francis…
A joint study by Cognizant and Pearson found that 96% of HR leaders expect entry-level roles to evolve into positions supervising AI within five years, and 94% anticipate AI will create new entry-level jobs. However, 60%…
Chip stocks fell Friday after a New York Times report that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, reversing a brief rally fueled by Micron's strong earnings and Qualcomm's data center ann…
Stripe cofounder John Collison says Gen Z will need two college majors to compete in the AI era, echoing advice from the late Charlie Munger. Collison argues that combining software with another discipline like finance o…