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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…
Anthropic's latest AI model, referred to as Fable 5, sparked controversy immediately after release, raising questions about regulation, national security, and the future of AI. The incident has ignited discussions on saf…
Tech companies including Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Block laid off 40,000 workers in a single month, citing AI as the primary reason, but PwC research shows firms that use AI to augment employees see faster headcount a…
The Trump administration and Anthropic are building a framework to evaluate security vulnerabilities in frontier AI models, with an executive order signed on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary pre-release review proc…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill on Thursday to create a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund giving Americans a 50% public stake in top AI labs, with annual payments of $1,000 per taxpayer. The bill argues AI is a …
Cory Doctorow argues that since 2008, policymakers have consistently chosen to decouple money from real value, leading to inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. He cites the rise of meme stocks, Theranos, FTX, an…
Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduced the JAWBONE Act, a bipartisan bill creating a federal cause of action against government officials who coerce online platforms into censoring lawful speech. The legislation aims…
An engineer at a company with six internal MCP servers discovered that an MCP proxy, which handles transport-layer protocol mediation, is insufficient for production governance. After experiencing credential sprawl, a ne…
Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank, launched an AI Center of Excellence with startup Flare AI to deploy secure, compliant AI across its personal, commercial, and digital banking operations. The partnership focuses …
OpenAI hired former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to lead a new Strategic Futures unit starting July 6, 2026, reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. Ball, a primary author of the White House AI Action Plan, w…
Meta's AI reorganization has caused employee unrest, with CTO Andrew Bosworth admitting the process was 'atrocious.' A leak exposed members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society, and Sam Bankman-Fried is seeking a …
A Brazilian researcher maps AI safety initiatives in Latin America, identifying three postures—fitting into Northern institutions, building parallel sovereign capacity, or reshaping global frameworks through cultural can…
Apple has opened Brazil's App Store to competition after a three-year antitrust fight with CADE, allowing alternative marketplaces and third-party payment options. Developers must agree to new terms by July 6, 2026, or l…
Klarna cut hundreds of customer service roles in 2024 to replace them with an AI chatbot, but after customer complaints, it began hiring gig workers instead of full-time agents. This shift illustrates how AI is enabling …
Google's Threat Intelligence team found that prompt injection attacks on AI agents are increasing but largely ineffective due to agents' own incompetence. Indirect prompt injection, where malicious instructions are hidde…
Google killed Gemini CLI for free users and Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers on June 18, 2026, replacing it with the closed-source Antigravity CLI. The migration requires renaming the `url` field to `serverUrl` in MCP con…
A Richmond hotel, SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western, has defaulted on an $11.6 million loan from First Technology Credit Union, facing foreclosure unless repaid in full. The hotel's owners, Nupen Patel and Bharat Patel…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has added an enterprise authorization layer, addressing a key gap for organizations deploying AI agents in production. The update provides standardized protocol-level access control for a…
US officials grew alarmed over alleged China ties at SK Telecom, leading the White House to demand Anthropic cut off the South Korean telecom giant's access to its AI model Claude Mythos. The incident, combined with secu…
U.S. lawmakers introduced three tech bills this week: the Web of Biological Data Act to create a centralized biological database for biotechnology research, the National Security Commission on Quantum Computing Act to as…