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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…
The Washington Post tested major AI chatbots for political bias, finding OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave left-leaning arguments 80% of the time, while Google's Gemini presented balanced views in over 90% of responses. The evaluati…
Meta remains the only major U.S. AI lab that has not joined the White House's voluntary pre-deployment review program for advanced AI models, which allows agencies like the NSA and CISA to assess models for cyber risks b…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and dismissed SpaceX's AI strategy as a 'premium-priced CoreWeave' in a recent interview, arguing that buying an AI company like Cursor doe…
XLight, a US-backed startup chaired by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, is raising $350 million to develop an alternative EUV light source that could challenge ASML's monopoly on chipmaking equipment. The company aims to …
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to strengthen Europol's mandate by enhancing information exchange and embedding cutting-edge technology at the heart of its operations, as part of a broader internal security…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, driven by widespread use of AI coding tools like Claude Code across the organization, not by a single moonshot project. Leaked audio from Accenture reveals ex…
Gartner warns that by 2028, AI coding costs could exceed the average developer salary due to rising LLM token consumption and a shift to consumption-based licensing. A Gartner press release from June 24, 2026, cites anal…
AI-enhanced automated license plate reader cameras deployed by roughly 40% of US law enforcement agencies capture every passing vehicle without a warrant, with vendors like Flock Safety storing searchable data accessible…
China's 360 Security Technology launched two AI-driven cybersecurity tools, Tulongfeng and Yitianzhen, to rival Anthropic's Claude Mythos system. The tools aim to match Mythos's capabilities in automated vulnerability di…
Anthropic's Mythos AI model reportedly hacked the NSA's most sensitive systems within hours during testing, according to Senator Mark Warner citing NSA Director General Joshua Rudd. The breach has sparked national securi…
Google, IBM, and Circle have backed a new open standard called the Legal Context Protocol (LCP) to provide legal certainty and dispute resolution for AI-driven transactions. The protocol, unveiled by the American Arbitra…
Anthropic has sidelined CEO Dario Amodei from White House AI security talks after a jailbreak incident involving its Mythos and Fable models, sending cofounder Tom Brown to lead negotiations. Brown is meeting with Commer…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative on June 23, demanding that AI companies publicly disclose the full environmental footprint of their data centers, including wate…
Meta is the only major U.S. AI developer that has not agreed to a voluntary government framework for pre-release model reviews, as rivals including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have already begun sharing models with fed…
A free, open-source route planner called DeFlock is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers operated by Flock Safety, which has over 100,000 AI cameras in a national surveillance network accessible to law e…
A developer reports that agent governance has become non-negotiable due to regulatory deadlines and industry risk taxonomies. The EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act impose legal requirements for oversight, while OWASP's Top 1…
A Kapwing study found that 59% of videos on new TikTok accounts' 'For You' feeds are AI-generated, with 57.4% in the Kids category classified as 'AI slop'. The research analyzed over 10,700 videos across 20 categories, r…
A survey of over 1,500 Americans found that labeling political messages as AI-generated did not reduce their persuasiveness, even though most participants believed the labels. The study, published in PNAS Nexus, showed t…