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South Korean Prime Minister nominee Han Seong-sook told lawmakers Thursday that North Korea is both a threat and a compatriot, as she faced questions on inter-Korean relations during her confirmation hearing. Han also pl…
Hyundai Motor Group is considering swapping its US AI research arm for SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics, which would give Hyundai full ownership of the robotics company ahead of its planned IPO. The de…
Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin launched in Japan on June 25, 2026, after receiving approval from the Financial Services Agency. The dollar-backed token is distributed through SBI VC Trade, leveraging Japan's revised Payment S…
London has secured a major strategic win in legal AI, with 25% of top UK and US law firms basing their global senior AI hires in the city, compared to 10% in New York. The UK hosts 315 legaltech and AI businesses, repres…
UpDoc announced on June 25, 2026, that its AI platform received FDA clearance as the first FDA-cleared clinical AI agent and LLM-enabled device, though public records show the clearance (K253281) is for a bounded insulin…
Shares in major consulting firms like Accenture, IBM, and Capgemini have plummeted as investors fear AI will disrupt traditional business models. Accenture lost over 57% of its value in the past year, while Capgemini dro…
A developer argues that the role of AI Engineer is evolving into AI Systems Engineering, where the focus shifts from model selection to system-level challenges such as governance, evaluation, security, and integration. T…
A Spacelift survey of 406 IT leaders found that 93% of organizations experienced infrastructure incidents from AI-generated code, yet only 19% have adequate governance. The survey highlights minimal review of AI-written …
Meta announced plans to replace roughly half of its human content moderation reviews with AI systems, a multi-year rollout that has already reduced celebrity impersonation reports by over 80% and mitigated 5,000 daily sc…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of executing the largest known distillation attack against its Claude AI model, involving 28.8 million queries from 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2025. The attack targeted Cl…
Legacy entertainment studios and Big Tech companies like Amazon, Meta, and YouTube are increasingly competing for TV ad revenue, with the winner likely determined by superior ad performance. Google is testing new search …
Meta paused its employee surveillance program, the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), after a security misconfiguration exposed sensitive worker data—including tax and medical information—to all employees. The program, w…
China launched three regional venture capital guidance funds, each exceeding 50 billion yuan ($7.1 billion), to back early-stage hard tech startups in semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, and other strategic sectors. T…
Publishers at the Cannes Lions festival are scrutinizing AI and agentic media buying deals, seeking clarity on which holding groups have real technical builds and budgets versus those selling concepts. Penske Media acqui…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces ongoing scandal over alleged AI-generated smear videos distributed by a secretary's contact during recent elections, exposing Japan's outdated digital campaign laws. Oppositio…
Chinese AI models GLM 5.1 and Qwen 3.6 Plus, allegedly distilled from Anthropic's Opus 4.6, outperform the original on internal cybersecurity evaluations, including real-world vulnerability exploitation at a major US ban…
White House negotiations with Anthropic over a restrictive export-control directive improved after CEO Dario Amodei stopped participating and co-founder Tom Brown took over, according to Wired sources. The directive, iss…
Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a 370 trillion yen ($2.3 trillion) public-private investment roadmap through 2040, with 101.6 trillion yen allocated for AI and semiconductors. The plan targets 17 sectors inc…
South Korean Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jina met with U.S. Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg in Washington on June 24 to discuss AI and digital-technology supply-chain cooperation. The two sides agreed that tr…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a 50% stock tax on large AI companies to create a $7 trillion public fund. The fund would distribute annual payments to Americans an…