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A sell-off in AI-related stocks this week has raised questions about whether the market is experiencing a healthy pause or a panic, as investors reassess valuations amid massive capital spending by tech giants on AI infr…
Hyundai Motor's labor union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, using job security concerns over the planned deployment of Atlas humanoid robots as leverage in wage negotiations. The union gained legal strike rig…
The National Institute for Health and Care Research awarded £8.1 million to six AI and digital innovation projects, including two Oxford-led studies. SAMURAI-CT will evaluate AI-assisted head CT interpretation in emergen…
Actress Cate Blanchett launched the RSL Media Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament in Brussels on June 24, 2026, a public website where individuals can record machine-readable permissions for AI use of their…
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index briefly slipped below 23,000 for the first time in a year, led by a 4.2% drop in Alibaba after Anthropic accused it of illicitly extracting AI capabilities. The decline reflects broader tech s…
Estonian Defense League Commander Ilmar Tamm said in his Victory Day speech that young people must be shown they have an important role in shaping Estonia's future, including in AI-based defense systems. He emphasized in…
Researchers from ZENTARA Labs detail how refusal behavior in open-weight large language models can be removed cheaply and surgically, exposing latent capabilities inherited from pretraining. The analysis outlines three r…
Slack detailed its four-phase evolution to a multi-cloud AI serving platform, moving from self-managed SageMaker to AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI, which improved complex reasoning quality by 10% and reduced shor…
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok argues that Gen Z graduates are wrongly blaming AI for their unemployment, citing that the unemployment gap for recent graduates emerged before ChatGPT's release and is more likely due…
Actress Cate Blanchett launched the Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a free tool that lets individuals set terms for AI use of their name, face, and voice. The registry, created by Blanchett's nonprofit…
A growing ideology called 'successionism' argues that humanity should be replaced by AI, gaining influence in Silicon Valley despite being rejected by most. The philosophy, named by Andrew Critch, reflects broader cultur…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of conducting the largest known distillation attack on its AI models, with 28.8 million exchanges through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts. Anthropic's policy head called for legislation to lim…
Vivek Chibber argues that artificial intelligence is unlikely to cause permanent mass unemployment, but without state action and class struggle, automation will deepen inequality. He notes that past technological waves d…
Nobel laureate Robert Schiller argues that excessive pessimism about AI's impact on jobs and the economy is unwarranted and must cease, urging a more balanced perspective on technological change.
METR's time horizon graph, which measures AI capabilities growth, may be shifting power toward AI companies and investors rather than the general public, potentially increasing existential risk. The metric, while useful …
South Korean companies and financial institutions must prepare for an AI era where software performs tasks and makes payments autonomously, according to speakers at the Global Business Forum in Seoul. Park Min-jun of Wrt…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating a large-scale campaign to illicitly access its Claude AI model using thousands of fraudulent accounts, marking the biggest known attempt by a Chinese company to replicate U.S. A…
House Democrats are pressing the SEC for clarity on how it monitors trading platforms using AI agents to make investment decisions for retail investors, focusing on accountability when algorithms manage money. The SEC ha…
The Russo-Ukrainian war reveals an overinvestment in hardware over people, according to an article from Small Wars Journal. The author argues for a human-centric approach to modernization, emphasizing AI and decision ana…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's warm exchange with Donald Trump at a Gaza peace summit, where he asked to meet Trump's son Eric, signals a potential shift in Jakarta's foreign policy away from its traditionally C…