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Only 16% of Americans believe AI will positively impact society over the next two decades, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The gap between public skepticism and industry optimism is widening, with 50% of US ad…
A new Pew Research poll finds that 63% of Americans believe AI is advancing too quickly, even as 49% report using chatbots—up from 33% in 2024. Only 16% think AI will have a positive societal impact, with younger users m…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered remaining employees to participate in a three-day AI hackathon to rebuild 'hacker culture' weeks after laying off 8,000 workers. The move was met with employee backlash, with internal mes…
French President Emmanuel Macron hosted U.S. President Donald Trump at the Palace of Versailles for a private dinner and show marking America's 250th birthday, using the historic venue as a diplomatic tool to strengthen …
Uinta County commissioners unanimously approved a conditional-use permit for the 1.25-gigawatt Prometheus Hyperscale data center on 506 acres near Evanston, Wyoming, despite public skepticism about potential economic ris…
A developer warns that defining human dignity by productive output becomes dangerous as AI outperforms humans on measurable tasks. The author argues that human worth must be decoupled from productivity, citing historical…
GitHub has added a new governance capability to enterprise-managed settings, allowing administrators to disable bypass permission controls for Copilot CLI and VS Code. The setting prevents automatic approval of permissio…
Only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society over the next 20 years, according to a Pew Research study. 40% expect negative effects, and 67% doubt the government will regulate AI meaningfully. …
The Trump administration demands Anthropic block all jailbreaks on its Claude Fable 5 AI model before re-release, but cybersecurity experts say such prevention may be impossible. The National Security Agency found vulner…
China's State Council issued a 2026-2030 employment blueprint that orders research into a monitoring system to track how artificial intelligence creates and destroys jobs, using data such as industrial electricity use, s…
The White House blocked external access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after Amazon alerted officials to a jailbreak exploit. The administration issued an export-control designation barring foreign nationals …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that Chinese AI models are 6 to 12 months away from matching US capabilities, specifically citing 'Mythos-class' AI that can find thousands of software vulnerabilities in hours. The US C…
The Obama Presidential Center opens to the public this week in Chicago, joining a network of presidential libraries that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt in the late 1930s. These sites, overseen by the National Archives,…
More than 200 civil-society organizations, led by Access Now and Amnesty International, are demanding an immediate ban on AI in military kill chains after reports revealed that Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated w…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined G7 leaders for AI talks in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 17, alongside Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, to discuss safe and effective AI deployment amid US …
Anthropic has been unable to lift a U.S. government ban on its AI program Fable, which was blocked last week over national security concerns. The company argues the AI helps find software vulnerabilities, but the U.S. fe…
Veteran entertainment lawyer Ken Ziffren, reflecting on 50 years of UCLA Law's Entertainment Symposium, advocates for reviving financial interest and syndication rules to require streamers to carry independent programmin…
OVHcloud acquired Dragon LLM, a Paris-based startup specializing in generative AI for regulated industries, and launched a dedicated AI lab to build sovereign large language models. The move positions the French cloud pr…
As crime surges in some Latin American countries, a far-right backlash is brewing, with conservative populists winning votes by promising strong-arm tactics against crime and immigration, echoing El Salvador's President …
The US Department of Commerce awarded a $500 million grant to SandboxAQ, an AI startup spun out of Alphabet, to discover new chipmaking materials under the CHIPS Act. The company will use AI to find alternatives to toxic…