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Donald Trump called Nicki Minaj 'so hot' and a 'friend of common sense' during a White House Rose Garden luncheon on July 6, 2026, sparking immediate social media backlash. Critics condemned the president's language as i…
Companies that track AI usage risk turning metrics into weapons, as seen with token leaderboards that spawned 'tokenmaxxing' behavior. The problem is not measurement itself but the culture that uses it, where metrics bec…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted during a town hall that AI agent development is progressing slower than expected, despite the company spending $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year. The revelation follows massive…
Newport Beach officials said out-of-state visitors, particularly from Arizona, and social media influencers were major contributors to the Fourth of July chaos that led to 400 arrests. City Manager Seimone Jurjis noted t…
OpenAI restricted its GPT-5.6 Sol AI model to government-approved partners after a request from the Trump administration citing safety concerns, marking the first time a U.S. lab has launched a frontier model under such …
DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware, according to a Reuters report citing three sources. The move aims to control serving costs and latency amid U.S. export c…
Kemi Badenoch warned that Britain risks driving away AI companies unless it lowers industrial energy costs and fixes London's capital markets, arguing the UK cannot regulate its way to becoming a global tech leader. Spea…
Illegal fireworks sparked at least six fires and drew hundreds of complaints across Sonoma County over the Fourth of July weekend, officials said Monday. One person was cited for discharging banned fireworks, and investi…
Planned Parenthood regained access to hundreds of millions in federal Medicaid funding after a Republican ban expired on July 5, 2026. The one-year prohibition, part of President Trump's mega bill, lapsed amid GOP intern…
DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip to reduce dependence on Nvidia and Huawei, according to a Reuters report citing three sources. The Chinese lab has been in talks with chip-design and foundry partners for …
The Bank of England warned that a crash in artificial intelligence stocks could plunge the UK into recession, citing a potential 2.2% fall in GDP. Governor Andrew Bailey highlighted risks from overvalued AI stocks, slowe…
Sam Altman is reportedly discussing giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth roughly $320 per American household, to address concerns about AI benefiting from human work and to provide a safety net against la…
Cryptography expert Filippo Valsorda argues that hybrid signatures combining classical and post-quantum schemes are often not worthwhile due to hidden costs, despite their apparent simplicity. He states that pure ML-DSA …
Hesai Technology, a Chinese lidar maker partnered with Nvidia on autonomous-vehicle platforms, faces renewed U.S. cybersecurity scrutiny after being designated a Chinese military company. AUVSI CEO Michael Robbins cited …
Holland Partners received final approval for a 575-apartment complex at Stevens Creek Boulevard and Saratoga Avenue in San Jose, up from 532 units in the prior plan. The project replaces a previously entitled office and …
A new Smarsh study finds 55% of enterprises are actively deploying AI, but only 26% have governance frameworks aligned with that pace, and just 30% can detect shadow AI. The research warns that rapid AI adoption without …
Investor Michael Burry fired back at President Donald Trump after Trump ridiculed short sellers at a White House luncheon, calling them "poor bastards" and saying they are "betting against the country." Burry responded o…
Spanish actors Itziar Ituño and Vito Sanz have been cast in 'Numana,' a sci-fi drama series set in a dystopian near-future where a multinational corporation and an AI system control society. The series, created by Jesica…
The Bank of England warned that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence poses growing risks to financial stability, citing potential for systemic shocks from opaque algorithms and concentrated market dependencies. …
A new interactive tool called AI Power Atlas has been released to help policymakers analyze countries' AI strengths, weaknesses, and dependencies across six levers of power including compute, model capability, talent, da…