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Meta has not yet agreed to voluntarily submit its AI models for government safety review under President Trump's June 2 executive order, while Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Microsoft have signed on. The Commerce De…
Alex Bores, a New York assemblyman who campaigned on AI safety, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district. Pro-AI industry super PAC Leading the Future spent over $8 millio…
Sunrun partnered with Tesla and Renew Home to aggregate residential solar and battery systems into virtual power plants, aiming to meet the surging electricity demands of AI data centers. The company reported a 400% incr…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the transformer architecture, left Google for OpenAI just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back from Character…
In 2026, the security industry released numerous agentic security tools, including OWASP's 400+ Agent Threat Rules, Microsoft's RAMPART red-teaming framework, and OpenAI's Lockdown Mode. However, incidents such as a Curs…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and said SpaceX is 'not an AI company' in a podcast interview, while also criticizing the U.S. government's handling of Anthropic's pulled …
Japan's three largest banks—MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho—are adopting Google's AI for core banking functions, marking a strategic shift toward U.S. technology and away from China's state-driven AI model. Finance Minister Katay…
Record rainfall in Xinjiang's Taklamakan Desert has raised concerns that infrastructure designed for arid conditions may fail under extreme weather, with experts warning of increased risks to roads, farmland, and fragile…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed claims that the artificial intelligence boom is a bubble, calling such talk an 'insult' to AI at the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Tokyo. Son, whose SoftBank has invested …
A developer published an AI use disclaimer for their software project, detailing that AI tools are limited to productivity functions and never generate original content, with all intellectual property belonging to human …
President Donald Trump called for a Department of Justice probe into oil companies for not lowering gas prices in line with falling oil costs, accusing them of gouging consumers. Trump's demand came as gas prices have dr…
Polaroid launched a global campaign, 'The Best of Summer Is Analog,' featuring a billboard on New York's Coney Island Beach that reads 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.' The campaign promote…
Anthropic's AI model Mythos identified vulnerabilities in classified US government computer systems within hours during a controlled red-team exercise, according to a US official. The test, part of Project Glasswing, did…
The European Commission has selected Italian startup Domyn to lead the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build a 400-billion-parameter language model aimed at achieving European technological sovereignty. Domyn, …
Author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow argues that the real danger of AI is not job replacement but the speculative bubble built on convincing employers to replace workers with systems that cannot deliver on th…
The proliferation of AI-generated science images is eroding public trust in visual evidence, as researchers use AI tools to create, edit, and fabricate scientific visuals. Recent retractions of papers with AI-manipulated…
Legion LegalTech Corp sued the U.S. federal government on Tuesday over a June 12 Commerce Department directive that forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models worldwide, citing national security. Th…
Animoca Brands cofounder Yat Siu predicted at the SuperAI summit in Singapore that Asia will lead the convergence of AI and blockchain, citing the region's less politically charged financial environment. He projected up …
The Netherlands formally objected to the MATCH Act, proposed US legislation that would further restrict ASML's ability to sell advanced chipmaking equipment to China. Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma warned the extr…
South Korea's government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about building a second chip cluster, driven by explosive AI demand that could require new fab construction by 2034-2035. Presidential adviser Ki…