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A ski school is calling for a referendum before Alberta adopts permanent daylight time, arguing that the change could negatively impact winter tourism and morning activities. The group wants Albertans to vote on the issu…
Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office arrested temporary deputy sheriff Kevin Lee, 62, on suspicion of burglary, receiving stolen property, embezzlement and possession of an assault weapon. Lee allegedly stole from the pr…
AI bots now account for 57.5% of web traffic, surpassing human visitors, according to Cloudflare data. The shift is driven by AI agents fetching pages for users, with AI traffic growing eight times faster than human visi…
Jeff Bezos said orbital data centers are 'very realistic' but face economic hurdles, not scientific ones, in a May 20 CNBC interview. Blue Origin filed FCC applications in March 2026 for Project Sunrise, a 51,600-satelli…
Dorset Council is trialing AI agents developed by Faculty to triage planning applications, summarize key information, and provide initial assessments for planning officers. The government aims to halve average processing…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch has spent two years warning that US AI models could be switched off by the US government, and a recent US order forcing Anthropic to cut foreign access to its models proved his point. The intern…
Hackers used Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex AI agents to breach at least 14 companies, according to captured session logs from a compromised honeypot server. The attackers framed their requests as authorized …
The UK government announced two AI projects to speed up the planning system, including an in-house system by MHCLG and DSIT and an £8.2m collaboration with Google and Faculty AI, aiming to digitize documents and reduce p…
The Trump administration disclosed 3,611 active or planned AI use cases across the US federal government, a 70% increase from the previous year, raising concerns about automation of sensitive governmental functions.
California Assemblymember Dawn Addis introduced the Family Friendly City Councils Act (AB 2134) to protect the privacy of local elected officials taking parental leave, inspired by Sunnyvale Councilmember Alysa Cisneros'…
Christian Noyer, a founding vice-president of the European Central Bank, said Europe should deepen ties with China to finance AI and green industries and reduce dependence on US technology. Noyer argued that Chinese capi…
One-third of American teens report being victimized by deepfake nude images, and over half admit to creating AI-generated pornography themselves, according to a George Mason University survey. Researchers warn that free,…
Epoch AI analysis reveals Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are increasing AI infrastructure spending by 70% annually while operating cash flow grows only 23%, potentially causing spending to exceed cash flow…
U.S.-based developers and small startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open AI models like DeepSeek to cut costs, with some reporting coding costs dropping from $10 on Claude to under 50 cents. Firms such as Lindy ha…
Companies are imposing token limits on AI usage as workplace adoption surges, with Pylon CEO Marty Kausas reporting a potential $1.4 million bill after scaling an Anthropic plan toward 150 employees. The move reflects a …
Anthropic restricted access to its frontier models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, then removed them entirely, prompting Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst to warn against building on technology from a single country that can be cut of…
French AI startup Mistral publicly positioned its open-source models as an alternative after the US government ordered Anthropic to cut access to two models for foreign nationals. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch stated the com…
Poland has acquired an equity stake in ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesis company founded by Polish entrepreneurs Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, as part of its strategy to become a leading European tech hub. Elev…
Amnesty International released a research briefing documenting that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, violate international human rights law through mass invasions of privacy by design. Th…
Talks between Microsoft and Oracle over a cloud-infrastructure leasing deal worth more than $3bn have collapsed due to Oracle's lack of FedRAMP certification, a US government security framework, according to Business Ins…