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Santa Clara County approved a $14.7 billion budget that cuts 431 positions and reduces healthcare funding to close an $800 million deficit caused by federal Medicaid cuts. The budget increases funding for child welfare o…
Parts of the National Security Agency lost access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model after the Trump administration imposed export controls on the company, disrupting NSA work involving the advanced AI tool. The access issue …
South Korea ranked sixth in the inaugural QS World Future Skills Index 2027, scoring 93.4, behind the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Germany and Canada. The index reveals a mismatch between Korea's strong STEM education and …
A senior U.S. official cited South Korea's physical isolation of government servers and data localization policies as barriers to AI advancement, urging a shift toward modernized digital regulations. Russ Headlee of the …
California voters are divided over a November ballot measure to tax billionaires to fund healthcare, with supporters arguing the wealthy owe the communities that built their fortunes and opponents warning the tax could e…
AI-backed super PACs are spending tens of millions of dollars to influence the midterm elections, mirroring the cryptocurrency industry's successful playbook. Two groups, Leading the Future (backed by Andreessen Horowitz…
The cybersecurity chiefs of the Five Eyes nations jointly warned on June 23, 2026, that frontier AI models will reshape cyberattacks within months, not years. The statement, published on CISA's site, urges organizations …
Two Christian parents, Justin and Rose Taylor, sued the Sunnyvale School District on Monday, alleging it failed to allow them to opt their elementary-age children out of LGBTQ+ instruction that conflicts with their faith…
China's clinical drug trials hit a record 5,215 in 2025, more than double the 2020 figure, with 57.5% for new drugs, as Beijing's push to make biotech a strategic industry raises US security concerns.
The European Union, along with the Netherlands, Germany, and Greece, joined the US-led Pax Silica initiative on June 23, expanding a supply chain security bloc focused on AI chips, critical minerals, and energy. The move…
China's LineShine supercomputer, using domestically designed chips, claimed the top spot on the TOP500 list, beating the U.S.-based El Capitan. However, experts note the ranking does not reflect AI performance, as cloud …
A research team led by Alex Hakuzimana, Kayode Adekoya, and Michal Kubiak proposed a Democratic Coordination Framework to address the growing mismatch between rapid AI advancement and slow democratic governance. The stud…
Multiple major Hollywood studios, including Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros., have declined to distribute Luca Guadagnino's biographical drama 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, following Amazon MGM'…
The US and China are competing for control of copper, a metal critical to AI, defense, and energy sectors. The Trump administration is considering tariffs on refined copper imports to rebuild domestic industry, while Chi…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' was released today, offering a critical perspective on AI hype and its societal impact. Doctorow argues that AI's real-world implementations have be…
Cate Blanchett launched the Human Consent Registry through her nonprofit RSL Media, allowing individuals in the US and EU to control how AI systems use their likeness. The registry lets users set consent levels for AI us…
Apollo Global Managements chefsekonom Torsten Sløk varnar för tre makroekonomiska risker: fortsatt energiturbulens i Mellanöstern, svag avkastning på AI-investeringar och stigande inflation. Han ser en 'megarotation' på …
Meta has paused an internal program that trained AI on employee data after a leak exposed keystrokes, private conversations, and transcriptions. The program, intended to improve AI models, was halted following the securi…
JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong have stopped using Anthropic's AI models due to US export restrictions, which block non-Americans from accessing the company's latest models. The move threatens Hong Kong's c…
At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, leaders from Google, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and others advocated for decentralized AI to ensure data sovereignty, privacy, and security. They warned against dependen…