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Norway announced a near-total ban on generative AI for children ages 6 to 13 in schools, effective August 2026, citing risks to cognitive development and data privacy. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre stated the policy ai…
The UK will deploy artificial intelligence through a partnership between the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Met Office to help climate-vulnerable countries in Africa and Southeast Asia prepare for e…
The Trump administration imposed a de facto ban on Anthropic's Mythos derivative Fable 5, citing national security concerns and export controls, forcing Anthropic to disband both models for all customers. The move has sp…
A developer who builds agent systems reports that real autonomous-agent deployment remains in single digits across nearly all business functions, citing Stanford's 2026 AI Index. The gap between capability and deployment…
Andrew Curran claimed Sunday that a more capable version of Anthropic's Mythos-class model has emerged from training, nine days after the US government forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The claim, unconfi…
The Swiss AI Initiative released Apertus Mini on June 15, a set of 16 smaller language models distilled from the open-source Apertus foundation model, designed for local deployment on constrained hardware. The move aims …
Switzerland's Swiss AI Initiative launched Apertus, a fully open-source large language model with complete transparency in training data, code, and alignment methods, designed for sovereign deployments and regulatory com…
Anthropic has begun requiring government-issued ID and a live selfie for certain Claude capabilities on consumer tiers (Free, Pro, Max), processed by third-party vendor Persona. The API, Team, and Enterprise plans are ex…
AI data-center developers are building their own natural gas plants to bypass the electric grid, with at least 46 facilities pursuing 56 GW of on-site generation. The trend, led by companies like xAI, OpenAI, and Meta, i…
The Swiss AI Initiative, a collaboration between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS, released Apertus Mini, a set of 16 small language models demonstrating distillation and quantization techniques. The open-source models, built …
A Mercer survey of 825 C-suite leaders finds 99% expect AI to drive headcount reductions by 2028, as employee thriving drops to 44% and AI-related job loss concern rises to 40%. Challenger data confirms AI as the top lay…
Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham used AI tools including ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog Rosie, which shrank her tumors after conventional treatments failed. Univ…
Andrew Marble argues that switching from proprietary large language models to open models carries minimal professional risk, as open models now trail leaders like Claude and GPT by only a few months and offer competitive…
Bifrost has launched Bifrost Edge, a lightweight agent that enforces enterprise governance policies on every employee machine by routing all AI traffic through the Bifrost Gateway. The two-layer system provides visibilit…
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed nationalizing half the AI industry, a plan the New York Post Editorial Board calls unconstitutional, economically destructive, and tyrannical. The editorial argues that such extreme ideas, th…
A Bank of Korea report reveals that despite 51.8% of South Korean workers using generative AI, productivity has not improved meaningfully over three years. The study identifies four reasons for the disconnect, including …
China's Z.ai open-sourced its GLM-5.2 coding model on June 17, 2026, days after Washington ordered Anthropic to restrict foreign access to its Claude models. The 753-billion-parameter model, released under an MIT license…
A study led by Harvard and Stanford researchers found that ChatGPT outperformed hundreds of physicians in diagnostic challenges, sparking concerns about AI's rapid integration into U.S. healthcare without FDA approval. D…
AMD is reportedly planning another consumer GPU price increase of 10-15% in the second half of 2026, driven by rising memory costs as AI datacenter demand reallocates memory capacity away from consumer GDDR6. Multiple tr…
Amazon MGM is dropping Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about OpenAI, a move widely seen as corporate meddling in distribution. The decision follows Amazon's deepening ties with OpenAI rival Anthropic, suggesting the …