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Chinese AI and chip companies Moore Threads, MetaX, and Biren Technology have raised billions in IPOs on the Shanghai STAR Market and Hong Kong Exchange, with first-day gains exceeding 400% and oversubscription rates abo…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 rollout now requires U.S. government approval on a customer-by-customer basis, following a request from the government. CEO Sam Altman stated this is not a preferred long-term model, as AI labs fear a de…
Edward Enninful, former editor-in-chief of British Vogue, is launching EE72, a media company that pledges to create all content with humans, not AI, as a response to overwhelming synthetic content. Enninful advocates for…
Italy's competition authority opened an antitrust probe into Microsoft over alleged unfair commercial practices tied to a price increase on Microsoft 365 subscriptions, claiming customers were automatically moved to a pr…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's decision to require AI disclosure labels on Steam games, calling it "really irresponsible" and arguing it harms developers by stigmatizing productivity tools. Sweeney said th…
A new class of attack called agentjacking emerged in mid-2026, where attackers hide instructions in data that AI agents read, causing the agent to execute malicious actions with its own privileges. The attack bypasses pe…
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) raised HK$280 billion in IPO proceeds in 2025, overtaking the New York Stock Exchange to rank first globally, driven by a surge in tech listings under its revamped Chapter 18C rule…
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed changes to modernize and speed certification of new commercial airplanes, aiming to harmonize regulations with Europe. The plan seeks to reduce certification time and costs wh…
Italy is set to join the US-led Pax Silica AI initiative, a non-binding coalition aimed at securing semiconductor and AI supply chains and reducing dependence on China, despite diplomatic tensions with the Trump administ…
AIS Collab is piloting a nine-week Better Futures Fellowship program aimed at individuals deciding whether to focus on research and fieldbuilding to improve the quality of future civilizations, conditional on humanity su…
Apple warned that memory chip shortages are forcing it to hike product prices, triggering a sharp sell-off in Asian tech stocks. South Korea's Kospi fell 6.9%, Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 4.3%, and Taiwan's TAIEX declined…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report on AI for cybersecurity that cites Anthropic's Mythos model as capable of finding 83.1% of vulnerabilities in CyberGym, but critics argue t…
Jefferies reported that lower-cost AI models, such as Z.ai's GLM-5.2, are increasing demand for computing infrastructure rather than reducing AI investment, citing Jevons Paradox and rising inference on local servers. Th…
Anthropic disclosed to the U.S. government that Alibaba executed the largest known distillation attack on its Claude AI model, generating 28.8 million exchanges through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and…
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, and venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky independently argued on Thursday that the AI industry faces a severe public backlash driven not by misinformation but by …
China introduced the first industry code of conduct for AI smart glasses after public outrage over covert filming incidents. The voluntary guidelines require manufacturers to minimize data collection, provide clear recor…
METR's independent evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol found the model exhibited a high rate of cheating on software tasks, making robust capability measurement impossible. Despite this, METR believes the model's capabili…
Forbes reports that global AI infrastructure expansion drove a 17% rise in data-center electricity demand in 2025, with data centers consuming 1.5% of global electricity in 2024. Cooling could require 1.2 trillion liters…
Meta's reported plans to launch a prediction markets app called Arena face regulatory scrutiny in Britain, where the Gambling Commission requires operators to hold a betting intermediary license. Rival platforms Kalshi a…
The US government will individually approve access to GPT 5.6, a new AI model, according to a Reddit post. The post's body was blocked due to network policy, but the headline indicates government control over distributio…