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The US government imposed export-control restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing the company to suspend access for foreign nationals and disable the models globally. The incident underscor…
President Donald Trump unveiled a converted Qatari Boeing 747 jet as the new Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Friday, featuring a red, white, and navy color scheme. The aircraft, accepted as a gift from Qatar, …
The use of AI in warfare has reached a point of no return, with Ukraine and Russia deploying AI-powered systems on the battlefield, raising urgent ethical and strategic questions for global policymakers and tech companie…
ABC News traced Sydney startup Coreflow to OurDream, one of the largest AI pornography sites, and found images that appear to depict people under 16 years old, with experts describing some material as child abuse materia…
Norway will impose a near-total ban on AI tools in primary schools starting August 2026, with limited supervised use for older students, as part of efforts to combat negative impacts on learning. Prime Minister Jonas Gah…
An AI forecaster predicts the U.S. government will force Anthropic to restrict Claude Fable to non-Americans, setting a major precedent for AI regulation. The analysis, using a proprietary world-modeling method, estimate…
Norway announced a near-total ban on generative AI tools for primary school pupils aged 6 to 13, effective late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said at a June 19 press conference, citing risks to foundational ed…
Pocketpair, the developer of Palworld, has publicly rejected generative AI in game development, with Head of Publishing John Buckley stating 'Gamers don't want it.' The studio faces legal action from Nintendo over allege…
Rising AI compute costs are driving enterprises to adopt cheaper Chinese models like DeepSeek, with U.S. developers reporting costs of $10 per hour on Claude versus under $0.50 on DeepSeek. Companies are implementing usa…
Rep. Ro Khanna, representing Silicon Valley, argues for taxing billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, citing Meta's $56.31 billion quarterly revenue and simultaneous layoffs of 8,000 workers to fund AI infrastructure. Khanna…
Amazon MGM Studios dropped 'Artificial,' its nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's 2023 firing, four months after investing $50 billion in OpenAI. The decision, which Amazon attributed to the film being bett…
Five Chinese AI labs—ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, Alibaba, and Xiaomi—cut token prices by 50% to 99% within the same competitive window, driven by narrowing capability differences between major AI models. Bank of America…
A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden's attempt to block the release of recordings he made with a ghostwriter to a conservative group, ruling that the public interest outweighs Biden's privacy cla…
Economists and journalists warn that AI could cause a 'China Shock' for white-collar workers, but a closer analysis of the original China Shock's details suggests the AI disruption may be less severe. The China Shock's d…
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) concluded its 38th annual conference in Denver, highlighting a record surge in cyber vulnerabilities driven by AI-assisted discovery, with 2026 on track to reach …
Multiple major tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are struggling with their AI strategies, wasting billions of dollars without clear vision or execution. Meta's AI research lab is described…
Blogger Noah Smith reflects on the diminishing influence of punditry in an era of populism, AI, and monetization, arguing that while blogging once allowed him to inject ideas into the discourse with speed and breadth, re…
Norway will ban generative AI tools in elementary schools starting in late August, with students in grades 1 through 7 prohibited from using AI at all and secondary schools allowing it only under supervision. Prime Minis…
A new Gallup poll reveals that 25% of recently laid-off workers were fully remote, while only 1% lost jobs due to AI. A separate study in Science found that remote work accounts for a third of the decline in mental healt…
Amazon has pulled distribution of the Luca Guadagnino-directed film 'Artificial' after completion, reportedly due to concerns over its critical portrayal of OpenAI, in which Amazon holds a major equity stake. The move ma…