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The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) announced expanded membership benefits that give organizations direct influence over standards, working groups, and strategic direction of open source agentic AI. Members can now chair co…
A WIRED reporter attended an AI conference in Beijing where Chinese and American experts expressed alarm over frontier AI risks, urging US-China cooperation on cybersecurity and systemic dangers despite geopolitical tens…
The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to join a federal program that reviews advanced AI models before public release, citing national security concerns. Meta is the only major US AI developer not yet participating…
A proposed class action lawsuit filed in California accuses major gas station operators including BP, Walmart, and 7-Eleven of using AI-driven pricing software from Kalibrate Fuel Systems to artificially inflate fuel pri…
The University of South Carolina has expanded its deal with OpenAI to $3 million, up from an initial $1.5 million, after demand for ChatGPT Edu access exceeded expectations. The agreement includes image generation and GP…
AI startup Legion sued the U.S. government after a federal directive forced Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its advanced AI models, causing immediate harm to Legion's operations. The lawsuit, filed in…
A developer draws a historical parallel between John D. Rockefeller's transformation of the oil industry and the potential for a similar figure to emerge in AI, speculating on which industry AI might fundamentally reshap…
Dubai Holding is in early-stage talks to acquire a stake in Hscale, Bain Capital's hyperscale data center platform in Europe and the Middle East, as Gulf sovereign capital increasingly targets AI infrastructure assets. T…
Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren urged the FTC and DOJ to investigate 'reverse acqui-hire' deals by Nvidia, Meta, and Google, which they say allow Big Tech to absorb AI startups without antitrust review. The s…
A researcher proposes several high-impact AI safety projects, including live databases of research questions and interventions to track progress and neglectedness, and exploring under-contacted disciplines and attractor …
Anthropic is preparing to restore access to its Claude Fable 5 model after pulling it earlier this month due to a US export-control directive. Evidence includes Fable-specific usage strings in the Claude Code client and …
Indian factory workers are being filmed by head-mounted cameras to generate training data for robotics systems that may automate their jobs, with footage collected for as little as $1 per hour and without direct worker c…
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook told a Stanford symposium that over 70% of small businesses report unchanged labor costs after adopting AI, citing data from the 2025 Small Business Credit Survey. Cook used the find…
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…