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Meta is reversing its decision to reassign 7,000 employees to AI-focused units, including the Applied AI taskforce, allowing individuals to choose whether to join. The move comes amid low employee morale following layoff…
Italian startup Domyn plans to launch an open-source frontier AI model exceeding 400 billion parameters within a year, aiming to boost Europe's AI sovereignty. The Milan-based company, formerly iGenius, targets regulated…
Meta hired Dawn Song, Bo Li and Sanmi Koyejo, founders of AI security startup Virtue AI, to join its Superintelligence Labs. The move brings academic AI safety experts into Meta's core AI organization as the company scal…
Hasbro, owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, is requiring child actors to sign away voice rights for AI use in new contracts, sparking backlash from industry advocacy groups. The Agents of Young Performers Association issue…
Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek and Alibaba have rapidly closed the performance gap with US rivals, capturing over 50% of global open-source downloads and 30% of AI model usage by early 2026, putting pricing …
Two startup executives addressed local concerns about AI data centers at a SPUR panel in San Francisco, citing research that large data centers can use up to 5 million gallons of water per day and could consume 130 gigaw…
Microsoft quietly extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, now covering security updates until October 12, 2027. The change was made without a formal annou…
Hydro Ottawa is facing unprecedented power connection requests totaling 1,075 megawatts from 34 large-load projects, with data centres accounting for 60% of that demand, CEO Bryce Conrad told city council on June 24, 202…
San Jose opened public online nominations Wednesday to rename Plaza de Cesar Chavez after sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader. The city will vet submissions through July, with a final City Council deci…
Story Protocol rebranded as the DATA Foundation, pivoting from general intellectual-property to AI training data infrastructure. The group will operate an onchain registry and a platform issuing cryptographic receipts fo…
New York Knicks owner James Dolan accepted President Trump's invitation for the team to visit the White House after winning the NBA championship, but Finals MVP Jalen Brunson hedged on the visit, saying the team will dis…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI team of orchestrating a 44-day distillation attack using 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million interactions to steal capabilities from its Claude model, marking the largest known such …
AI-generated code is flooding GitHub and degrading codebases, with research showing AI-written code has 1.7 times more critical issues and 45% ships with OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Major projects like curl, Ghost, and…
A 64-square-foot studio apartment in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood is listed for $750 per month, highlighting the city's worsening housing crisis exacerbated by the AI boom. The unit lacks a kitchen and has a …
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's AI disclosure policies on Steam, calling them "really irresponsible" and claiming they make it harder for game developers to succeed. The remarks highlight growing tensions o…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed fears of an AI bubble as 'blasphemy' during his company's annual general meeting, arguing that AI's potential is just beginning. SoftBank has invested over $64 billion in OpenAI, maki…
Federal agencies are using artificial intelligence to streamline hiring and employee skills assessments, with the General Services Administration reducing job classification time from six to eight hours to two hours. Chi…
OWASP's Agentic Security Initiative Top 10 (ASI01-ASI10) provides a threat taxonomy for AI agents that use tools, memory, and multi-agent communication, distinct from the LLM Top 10. Testing 30 adversarial prompts across…
California launched the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) on June 25, the first U.S. tool linking AI exposure data with unemployment claims. Early data through May 2026 shows no measurable AI-related job displace…
The Economist warns that the backlash against artificial intelligence is intensifying, as public skepticism and regulatory pushback grow amid concerns over job displacement, misinformation, and ethical risks. The article…