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A coalition including Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify has proposed PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) to replace CAPTCHAs and verify human web traffic without tracking users or requiring proprietary…
BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons were sued in a class action lawsuit alleging they used Kalibrate's AI fuel-pricing tool to artificially raise gas prices in California, violating state antitrust and algorithmic pric…
SpaceX, with $100.8 billion in cash, is issuing at least $20 billion in bonds to replace a short-term bridge loan used to acquire xAI, despite negative free cash flow of $14.1 billion last year. The move aims to secure c…
Meta paused its program tracking employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training after an internal leak exposed private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions across the company. The incident, classi…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed SpaceX's orbital AI data center plan as overpriced, arguing that terrestrial infrastructure is more cost-effective. Son's critique comes days after SpaceX's $1.7 trillion IPO, which r…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 in its predecessor, a…
McKinsey released analysis on June 23, 2026, stating that data infrastructure and governance have become the primary bottleneck as companies move AI pilots into production. The report finds that scaling friction has shif…
Security firm AIR created a fake AI agent skill that bypassed every major security scanner and reached approximately 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. The skill contained no malicious code but directed…
Microsoft has resumed automatic installation of its Microsoft 365 Copilot app on commercial Windows 11 devices, six months after pausing the rollout due to a technical issue. The app is delivered via the Office updater a…
The release of a new version of chardet, an open source Python library, has highlighted legal and ethical issues surrounding AI's ability to rewrite open source code and its licenses.
A large-scale study of AI hiring tools found that 26% of Black applicants and 15% of Asian applicants faced racial discrimination in screening, and 10% of applicants who submitted four applications were rejected from all…
South Korean regulators are considering restrictions on leveraged ETFs after a sharp selloff in chip stocks, with Samsung and SK Hynix falling over 12% and the Kospi index dropping 10%, triggering a trading halt. Critics…
Writers are increasingly worried that their human-written text may be mistaken for AI-generated content due to its cleanliness and perfection. The article advises against adding artificial flaws to deceive readers, urgin…
An unconfirmed leak claims OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release has slipped to mid-July, while Google DeepMind is holding Gemini 3.5 Pro past its June launch window due to quality concerns. The alleged delays, if true, would impact …
Polaroid launched an international ad campaign criticizing AI and data centers, with billboards featuring anti-tech slogans like 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.' The campaign, placed near …
A man who shot a police officer at a migrant detention center in Texas was sentenced to 100 years in prison. Seven accomplices received 50 to 70 years for aiding a terrorist. The group attacked the center on July 4, prot…
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders to boost quantum computing research, aiming to build a powerful quantum computer by 2028 and accelerate post-quantum cryptography to 2031. The orders direct federal agen…
Google faces a crisis as search volume hits an all-time high but the company struggles with user backlash against AI integration and a decline in ad revenue. Competitors like ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo gain traction, while t…
Cloudflare, major browser vendors including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge, and Shopify are developing the Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) protocol to replace invasive bot detection with anonymou…
Anthropic updated its privacy policy to require age or identity verification for Claude users under certain circumstances, sparking concerns about digital surveillance and government overreach. Critics worry the move cou…