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The Atlantic's investigation, led by reporter Alex Reisner, found four public music datasets containing 21.2 million copyrighted recordings used in AI training. The largest datasets, LAION-DISCO-12M and Sleeping-DISCO-9M…
Hawaii agriculture officials are releasing thousands of parasitic wasps to combat a resurgence of invasive stinging nettle caterpillars, which cause painful stings and damage to tropical plants. The caterpillars, first d…
Yann LeCun warned at the United Nations Open Source Week that proprietary AI systems controlled by a few tech giants threaten linguistic diversity, cultural representation, and democracy. Open-weight AI models are a geop…
The Trump administration installed AI-powered surveillance cameras at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as part of a $14 million renovation response to vandalism and algae problems. The cameras feature real-time track…
Chinese open-source model GLM-5.2, released by z.AI under an MIT license, is challenging U.S. AI leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI by offering competitive coding and agentic-workflow performance on a one-million-token co…
AI industry super PACs spent over $40 million in a New York congressional primary, defeating assemblymember Alex Bores, a proponent of strict AI regulation. The race became a proxy battle over federal AI policy, with Bor…
Congress is moving to prevent households from subsidizing Big Tech's AI data center energy costs. A House panel votes this week on a package of bills, including the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would require large dat…
The Pentagon has removed another top general, and firings have begun at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA lost access to a powerful AI model amid a dispute with Anthropic, while the Department …
The Future of Privacy Forum hosted its third annual DC Privacy Forum on June 10, 2026, in Washington, D.C., gathering government officials, academics, and privacy professionals to discuss AI governance, privacy regulatio…
Deezer launched Remix Lab, a feature that lets fans remix songs using in-app tools with artist consent and royalty payments, deliberately avoiding AI. The tool is available in France on select artists' pages, with plans …
The National Transportation Safety Board and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are investigating a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, where a Tesla Model 3 with Full Self-Driving engaged struck a home, killing 76-y…
A $27 million proxy war between AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI ended in a draw when New York Assemblyman Alex Bores narrowly lost the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional district to Assemblyman Micah …
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said on the Platformer podcast that half of white-collar jobs may change due to AI, but dismissed fears of widespread job elimination, citing new job creation and the value of adaptabl…
Gruvbolag och metaller faller kraftigt i onsdagshandeln när guld och koppar sjunker 3 procent på grund av inflation och räntehöjningsoro. En starkare dollar och förväntningar om räntehöjningar från USA:s centralbank driv…
Hyundai workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, partly over fears that robots will replace their jobs. The union demands a say in how AI and automation are deployed on the factory floor, marking the first tim…
Anthropic restricted access to its Fable 5 model after Amazon researchers demonstrated it could be jailbroken into producing cyberattack information, barring foreign nationals including its own non-US employees. The ban …
Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview AI cracked nearly all classified U.S. government systems in hours during a sanctioned testing exercise with intelligence agencies, according to Gen. Joshua Rudd of the NSA and…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged critics to stop warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, despite widespread concerns that AI poses existential risks, environmental harm, and safety threats in critical …
Meta appointed Kunal Shah, founder of Indian fintech CRED, as global head of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart, and led a $900 million financing round valuing CRED at $4.5 billion. The move signals Meta's strategic pivot…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark declared artificial intelligence "the most powerful technology ever built" and discussed the company's regulatory battles, risks of recursive self-improvement, and AI's potential to reshap…