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New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher won the Democratic primary in Manhattan's 12th Congressional District to succeed retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler, NBC News projects. The race drew heavy outside spending from AI-aligned gro…
Kotaku's coverage of AI in gaming has become dogmatic and pre-judges all uses of the technology, according to a Techdirt analysis. The outlet's writers express negativity toward AI tools in game development without consi…
A new collection by Andrew Maynard, director of Arizona State University's Future of Being Human initiative, examines historical technology-driven moral panics from Ancient Greece to modern AI, arguing that these reactio…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the biggest risk in artificial intelligence is China getting ahead of the United States, outweighing concerns over safety or job losses. He warned of retaliation against any attem…
Legion LegalTech Corp sued the US government on June 23, 2026, challenging a Bureau of Industry and Security order that forced Anthropic to block foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, disrupting the compa…
The White House met with children's safety groups to discuss a package linking online safety bills to a federal AI framework, including the Kids Online Safety Act and the App Store Accountability Act. House leaders annou…
AI-focused super PACs have raised over $100 million and spent $49 million on the 2026 midterm elections to influence AI regulation. The Manhattan Democratic primary in New York's 12th district alone has attracted more th…
Japan's Finance Ministry announced plans to fully digitize airport customs declarations by 2030, aiming to handle 60 million annual visitors. The initiative includes AI-driven X-ray inspections at major airports to addre…
South Korea's presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom called for aggressive investment in AI infrastructure, including electricity, land, and industrial ecosystems, to boost the country's potential growth trajectory amid…
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to voluntarily submit its AI models for government security reviews, making it the only major US AI company without such an agreement. The push follows an executive order establi…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp co-wrote a manifesto titled 'The Technological Republic,' which journalist James Corbett reviewed as unhinged. Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel and backed by the CIA, develops AI-powered surveillan…
New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher won the Democratic primary in the 12th Congressional District, backed by party leaders including Gov. Kathy Hochul and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The race drew national attention du…
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that Alphabet, Google's parent company, will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, marking the first change to the index since 2024. The move aims to reflect mark…
Tech stocks slumped on Monday as growing concerns over an artificial intelligence bubble weighed on the sector, with investors questioning whether lofty valuations for AI-related companies are justified. The selloff hit …
Anthropic's Mythos AI model identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive U.S. government computer systems during a testing exercise, with Senator Mark Warner claiming it broke into almost all classified systems within …
Legal-tech startup Legion sued the U.S. government over a Commerce Department directive that prompted Anthropic to disable access to its top-tier AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, causing immediate harm to Legion's Canada-…
Meta paused its employee monitoring program after internal security breaches allowed unauthorized access to sensitive data, including keystrokes, screen content, and private conversations. The program, designed to train …
A developer's platform for structured compliance-training programmes repeatedly failed internal quality checks on an ISO 42001 Lead Auditor course due to subtle drift into other standards. Investigation revealed 22 disti…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on artificial intelligence companies to disclose the environmental pollution caused by their operations, emphasizing the need for transparency as AI's energy consumption and c…
The National Audit Office reports that the Government Finance Function has made an excellent start on its 2030 strategy but faces challenges from aging IT systems and poor data quality. The NAO encourages the GFF to lead…