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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in urging the UK to halt its deployment of Facial Age Estimation (FAE) technology at the border, citing concerns ov…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign nationals due to a jailbreak vulnerability, just three days after their June 9, 2026 launch. Anthropic complied whil…
Gartner's 2025 CDAO Agenda Survey found only 55% of data and analytics teams rate governance effective, compared to 85% for building analytics, highlighting a significant capability gap. At the Gartner Data & Analytics S…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, citing national security concerns, prompting the company to take the models offline. The ban, which appli…
Databricks' $134 billion valuation and 70% adoption by major US firms highlight East Asian AI infrastructure demand, as Toyota and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group use the platform despite government subsidies for domestic…
Anthropic, Microsoft, and Okta released the Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) extension for the Model Context Protocol, replacing manual OAuth consent with centralized identity-driven token exchange for AI agents. T…
Nexus Foundation argues that local AI systems like its Lumen platform offer superior data sovereignty, security, and control compared to centralized commercial AI services, citing risks such as single points of failure, …
AI development must be regulated globally due to its uncertain impact on jobs, as the technology creates some roles while destroying others, according to a commentary. The World Economic Forum predicts 170 million new jo…
China has tightened export controls on indium phosphide, a critical material for AI data center optical chips, causing prices to surge 250% and threatening to slow AI infrastructure buildout. The move leverages China's d…
The BBC is trialling a new TV Licence reminder during 2026 FIFA World Cup broadcasts, displaying a QR code and on-screen prompt urging viewers to pay the £180 fee. The trial has sparked backlash from viewers who find the…
Alibaba Cloud opened its first data centres in France, launching two availability zones in Paris as its third European hub. The expansion coincides with the EU's new Cloud and AI Development Act, which introduces soverei…
Microsoft is shifting Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and testing a self-hosted version of DeepSeek V4 as a lower-cost alternative to Anthropic and OpenAI models, with a roughly 57x price gap per million tokens. Th…
NYU Stern professor Aswath Damodaran warned that fast-tracking SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic into the S&P 500 overlooks their financial losses and founder-controlled governance, posing risks for passive investors. S&P Do…
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT advertising pilot to South Korea, the sixth market after the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Ads appear only on Free and Go tiers for adult users, labeled as sponsored content and s…
Microsoft announced the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) SDK to secure AI agents on Windows, providing policy-driven isolation mechanisms such as process, session, and planned micro-VM containment. The company positi…
Pedro Rocha, CTO of xelerate.tech, argues that a single AI platform cannot serve all business needs and describes his company's multi-model stack: GitHub Copilot Pro+ for development, Gemini for office tasks, and n8n wit…
The U.S. Department of Commerce has accused Dutch chip machine maker ASML of selling advanced chipmaking equipment to China, potentially violating export restrictions. ASML denies the allegations, stating it has never de…
BlackFog announced general availability of ADX Vision for macOS, extending its shadow AI detection platform to Apple endpoints. The release enables enterprises to enforce consistent AI data-loss policies across Windows a…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong criticized Earth's regulatory environment, arguing that orbital datacenters are becoming more efficient than land-based facilities due to bureaucratic red tape. Armstrong's comments align wit…
OpenAI began a trial for displaying advertisements in ChatGPT for users in Japan, starting Friday. The ads will appear on the free version and the Go plan but not for users under 18 or higher-tier subscribers. The trial …