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US President Donald Trump claims prices are dropping and oil is flowing after a US-Iran peace deal, but data shows petrol prices remain above prewar levels and experts predict they won't normalize until late 2027. While …
Hong Kong has launched a two-month public consultation on its first five-year plan to align with Beijing's 2026-2030 blueprint, focusing on high-quality development, technological self-reliance, and economic rebalancing.…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered six major U.S. grid operators to justify or revise rules for connecting large energy users like AI data centers, aiming to speed up integration while protecting consumers …
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, proposing a one-time 50% stock tax on the largest US AI companies to create a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund. The fund would dist…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its most advanced AI models offline after an export control directive, sparking a dispute over unspoken rules. The White House accuses Anthropic of reckless behavior, whi…
Music producer Jimmy Jam said AI-generated music needs guardrails, consent, and compensation, and proposed a separate Billboard chart for AI songs. Speaking with Terry Lewis on Pandora's Artists on AI series, Jam argued …
Federal regulators ordered regional grid operators to speed up connections for large energy users, including AI data centers, to address surging electricity demand. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimou…
Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026, after a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion valuation, positioning it for a potential IPO. The company has not set a share price, share co…
Three Amazon employees who testified at Seattle City Council hearings about a proposed data center moratorium say they are under internal HR investigation, and have filed a complaint with the Seattle Office for Civil Rig…
A user on Privacy Guides forum asks whether Google Photos poses a privacy risk, noting that Google claims not to use stored photos for ads or AI training without permission, but lacks zero-access encryption, leaving futu…
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the NO FAKES Act, which would grant Americans exclusive rights to their digital AI replicas and allow lawsuits against unauthorized deepfakes, with damages up to $750,000. The bill…
OpenAI is preparing to release the GPT-5.6 family of models next Tuesday, including standard, Mini, and Pro variants, alongside a new voice model GPT-Bidi-1. The launch targets Anthropic's top-tier models amid a regulato…
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that a proposal to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. The measure, backed by the Service Employees Int…
Amazon is investigating engineers who publicly criticized the company's AI data center expansion, according to a report. The engineers raised concerns about the environmental and social impact of the expansion. The inves…
Snowflake introduced a Data-Model-Agent security framework to govern agentic AI, addressing risks from autonomous actions on enterprise data. The framework enforces least privilege, data masking, and prompt injection def…
Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after a US export control directive, leaving millions of users without access to top-tier AI models. The incident highlights the risk of relying on a single AI provider, a…
Miguel Geronimo, 32, of Santa Cruz, was sentenced to three years of probation for selling fentanyl laced with a veterinary sedative to homeless addicts outside a shelter. He pleaded guilty to possession with intent to di…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued new rules for large-load interconnection, aiming to reduce grid stress and improve affordability for AI factories and advanced manufacturing. The policy allows large…
Business leaders at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference discussed the challenge of managing AI agents that vastly outnumber human employees, emphasizing the need for scalable governance frameworks and clear use-case eva…
OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former Google DeepMind executive, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official, ahead of its IPO. Shazeer will c…