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Access to an article about China's AI agents has been blocked by Cloudflare security. The site's protections triggered a block, and users are instructed to email support with details including the Cloudflare Ray ID a1791…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized frontier AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic, claiming enterprises get no value from their tokens and risk losing IP. However, many companies are actively seeking ROI from AI, and Karp's commen…
Chinese authorities discussed potential restrictions on overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, according to Reuters. The proposed controls would expand beyond chips to…
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own in-house MAI models in some app features, prioritizing cost and data residency. The shift is incremental, with OpenAI and Anthropic still handling mo…
The U.S. men's national team exited the World Cup after a 4-1 loss to Belgium in the Round of 16, drawing harsh criticism from fans and pundits. Controversy surrounded FIFA's decision to suspend Folarin Balogun's red car…
A blog post responding to widespread AI fatigue argues that CEO-driven AI adoption is fueled by FOMO and false promises of productivity, leading to layoffs and restructures, while individual developers who make AI their …
China is considering restricting overseas access to its advanced AI models, including unreleased systems and some open-weight releases, according to a Reuters report. The Ministry of Commerce has held meetings with Aliba…
China is considering cutting off foreign access to its top AI systems, including open-source models, following a meeting between state officials and tech developers Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move aims to protect …
U.S. companies are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 due to rising domestic costs and narrowing performance gaps, with corporate usage surging from 4.5% in early 2025 to over 30% we…
AI writing tools that polish social media posts can subtly shift their meaning, and those small biases can accumulate to steer public opinion, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet Institute and Germany's Has…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security purchased two California immigrant detention centers from CoreCivic for $1.5 billion, including the Otay Mesa facility in San Diego for $739.2 million. The sale comes amid Trump a…
The US Energy Information Administration projects record-high electricity demand in 2026 and 2027, driven by data centers, AI workloads, and cryptocurrency mining. The surge marks the strongest multi-year growth since th…
China's National Medical Products Administration approved several Class III AI medical-device registrations in 2026, expanding the category from diagnostic support into pathology, endoscopy and surgical-navigation use ca…
Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia will leave his role at the end of August after an 18-month tenure focused on overhauling federal IT acquisition and culture. Barbaccia, who also served as Chief AI Officer, pushed agencies to b…
Bank of America warned that AI investors face a reality check as extreme speculation and high valuations signal a potential market snapback. The S&P 500's nine percent gain this year masks growing gaps between tech valua…
California voters will decide on 14 statewide propositions in the November 2026 election, covering issues from a billionaire tax and voter ID requirements to housing bonds and changes to the state's environmental law. Th…
Nearly 80% of enterprises reported AI-related security issues in the past six months, with 50% experiencing incidents from unauthorized or misconfigured AI agents, according to a DigiCert survey of 1,001 IT and cybersecu…
Prosecutors in Utah presented previously unseen video footage during a preliminary hearing for Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus on Sep…
Anthropic extended promotional access to its Claude Fable 5 model for paid users through July 12th, giving subscribers five more days before the model stops being treated as a partially bundled subscription. The extensio…
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) launched its third cohort of researchers to study artificial intelligence's impact on work, jobs, and productivity. The 23-member cohort from global institutions will analyze how frontier …