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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has been rebranded as SpaceXAI, five months after SpaceX acquired the firm. The new branding and logo were announced on X, with the merged entity now focusing on building o…
Folarin Balogun played a forgettable role in the United States' 4-1 World Cup loss to Belgium on Monday, failing to score after FIFA lifted his suspension following intervention by U.S. President Donald Trump. The decisi…
Australia aims to become the Asia-Pacific's dominant AI infrastructure hub with a A$52 billion digital infrastructure investment push by 2030, according to a Deloitte report. The government has established Data Centres A…
Antoine Berton, CTO at Elba Security, warns that companies have adopted AI without governing access, creating an attack surface through unmanaged OAuth grants, copilots inheriting human permissions, and stored agent cred…
The US Commerce Department on June 12, 2026 ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally over a jailbreak risk, prompting Chinese lab Z.ai to release open-weight GLM-5.2 under an MIT li…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is rolling out Anthropic's Claude as an enterprise AI tool and will begin a July 2026 pilot with 100 AI Champions while testing ABC Assist for radio-to-digital news productio…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB 315) on July 6, making Illinois the first U.S. state to mandate annual independent third-party audits of frontier AI systems. The l…
GPTBot, OpenAI's web crawler, is the most blocked bot among websites with organic traffic, according to data from Site Stats Database tracking 880,858 sites. Over 45,000 websites block GPTBot, surpassing other AI trainer…
Professional services firms must strategically integrate AI to remain competitive, while ensuring core human values like trust and judgement remain central, warns Centrus CEO Phil Jenkins. Firms face challenges to tradit…
Canada awarded its next-generation submarine contract to Germany's Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems over South Korea's Hanwha Ocean, despite both meeting operational requirements. Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged the c…
AI safety advocates risk undermining their credibility by engaging in non-essential political commentary, argues a new essay. The piece compares this behavior to an astronomer who tweets about zoning while warning of an …
In 2026, over 150,000 tech workers have been laid off across 363 events, with companies explicitly citing AI as the primary driver while posting record profits. Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce during a quarter of rec…
Publishers rushing to adopt AI must first ensure their data infrastructure is ready, especially for revenue-critical functions where even 1% errors are unacceptable. AI cannot reconcile unaligned data from disparate syst…
A federal grand jury has been convened in the investigation into Contra Costa County assessors Gus Kramer and Vince Robb, with subpoenas seeking records related to the Martinez Refining Company, the Seeno family, and DeN…
NTT Data reports that power shortages are becoming a key constraint on AI data center expansion, with electricity access now determining where new facilities are built and how quickly AI projects can scale.
Nigeria's FCCPC announced on July 6, 2026, that President Bola Tinubu ordered an investigation into Meta, Alphabet, X, and generative AI platforms over alleged anti-competitive use of Nigerian media content. The probe, p…
Kazakhstan showcased its digital civil service experience at the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, with Agency for Civil Service Affairs Chairman Darkhan Zhazykbay presenting the e-Qyzmet platform that digitizes…
LiveRamp is running a five-month B2B campaign on Netflix to promote its trustworthiness amid scrutiny of its Publicis deal. Reddit is using AI tools to combat stealth marketing content planted by brands seeking to be sur…
Researchers at arXiv propose a formal model of internal pluralism showing that local pairwise comparisons fail to capture global priorities like proportionality and egalitarianism, and can cause behavioral distortions wh…
Researchers identified five failure modes in perturbation-based construct-validity audits of AI safety benchmarks, demonstrating that implementation details can silently invalidate audit conclusions. In a case study of t…