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Hong Kong's highly educated youth face a growing mismatch between their skills and available jobs, exacerbated by AI and market shifts. The government must create quality employment opportunities leveraging the city's un…
Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned that frontier AI labs face a bubble burst due to unsustainable investor subsidies, citing xAI's $2.5 billion quarterly loss. LeCun, who left Meta to found AMI Labs, …
The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's AI system Fable, citing national security concerns over jailbreak vulnerabilities, leading Anthropic to de-deploy the model. The move signals a shift from t…
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent model API that coordinates a pool of agents behind a single interface, positioning it as a hedge against single-provider dependency after the U.S. government directed Anthropic to s…
The Atlantic's investigation reveals that tech companies have used at least 15 million videos and millions of songs to train AI models, often without permission. The report highlights the industry's reliance on copyright…
The Canadian government spent $46.8 million on a secret contract with Palantir Technologies, raising concerns about transparency and data privacy.
Box CEO Aaron Levie argues that AI agents will drive 100 times more software usage than humans, transforming enterprise SaaS into high-volume infrastructure requiring new guardrails for data access, permissions, and audi…
A new version of Tlbic, a time-limited basic income system designed with AI, has been released. The system aims to leverage artificial intelligence to manage and distribute basic income efficiently.
JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong announced at the 2026 APEC China CEO Forum that the company has launched an internal Nirvana Plan to retrain its 700,000 delivery workers for a future where robots handle all deliveries. JD.c…
An investigation by The Guardian found that brands are using AI-generated influencers and synthetic customer content on social media without clear disclosure, with some creators signing non-disclosure agreements. Consume…
OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing IPOs in the US amid record equity highs and strong demand for AI-linked listings, while Jio Platforms and the NSE face subdued investor appetite in India's less enthusiastic IPO market,…
The U.S. Department of Commerce's ban on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models over autonomous zero-day discovery concerns is counterproductive for cloud security, according to a cloud engineer. The ban ignores …
New York Attorney General Tish James and 17 other state attorneys general defeated Donald Trump's attempt to impose a moratorium on offshore wind energy projects, after a federal judge in Boston ruled against the adminis…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 triggered ASL-3 protections despite uncertainty about crossing biorisk thresholds, highlighting a gap between threshold definitions and actual governance decisions. The company's Mythos 5 system…
Gulf sovereign wealth funds, controlling $6 trillion in assets, have evolved into tools of statecraft, investing in strategic sectors and supporting allies. Canada and the U.S. are launching similar funds but lack the hy…
Researchers at Drexel University found that a majority of American teenagers regularly use AI companion chatbots, with a quarter relying on them as a primary source of emotional support. The study analyzed Reddit posts w…
A developer argues that AI will transform software from disposable to sustainable, eliminating the need for rewrites and enabling decades-long codebases. This shift will create new roles in AI code governance and force S…
The United States now accounts for more than half of the global credit impulse, adding roughly $800 billion in net new credit over the past year, driven primarily by artificial intelligence spending, according to UBS ana…
Anthropic will require Claude Free, Pro, and Max users to submit government ID and a live selfie to biometric vendor Persona starting July 8, 2026, following a US government export control directive that ordered the comp…
Microsoft and Chevron signed a 20-year, 2.67 GW natural gas deal for a West Texas data center, highlighting energy security as a key AI constraint. Samsung deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex company-wide in one of Ope…