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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…
G7 leaders, including President Trump, pledged to fight 'lingering poverty' before dining on caviar and $7,000 magnums of Château Mouton Rothschild at a secret banquet in Evian, according to a leaked menu obtained by The…
China announced support for IPOs by AI startups and large model companies as part of its 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost tech self-reliance. Firms like Zhipu AI, MiniMax, and Unitree Robotics are already advancing l…
The European Commission met with Anthropic in San Francisco on Thursday to negotiate European access to the company's advanced Mythos AI model, which can identify thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The talks com…
Twenty, a startup building AI-powered offensive cyber tools for the Pentagon, has reached a $1 billion valuation less than two years after being founded. The Arlington-based company emerged from stealth in November 2025 …
China released a white paper on Wednesday advocating for more just and equitable global governance for new frontiers like AI and outer space, emphasizing the central role of the United Nations. Top diplomat Wang Yi warne…
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez warned G7 leaders that nations risk digital serfdom by relying on a few centralized AI providers, urging adoption of sovereign AI systems to maintain control over data, security, and autonomy. He o…
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who initially warned colleagues in March that the company's next-generation AI model Mythos was too capable to release, has become central to Anthropic's argument for controlled dep…
The UK Government Office for Science released updated AI 2030 scenarios to help policymakers navigate uncertainty about AI's future, incorporating dramatic advances in AI capabilities, investment, and geopolitics since 2…
The Indonesian Ministry of Creative Economy partnered with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Adobe to launch an AI-based learning and monetization program for young creators under the ECHOES X GENSi initiative. The program p…
The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, and Faculty, has launched an AI prototype called Augmented Planning Decisions (APD) to cut processing tim…
Nearly 20% of games in Steam's June 2026 Next Fest carry generative AI disclosures, according to SteamDB data. Of roughly 8,700 participating titles, 1,715 (19.71%) reported AI use during development. Valve requires thes…
New Census Bureau data shows 57% of Americans have used AI tools, with 35% using AI to find information but only 14% trusting that information. AI use is higher among employed, higher-income, and more educated individual…
Governments are tightening control over AI cyber tools as they evolve from assistants to operational systems that scan code, triage alerts, and act through connected tools. CISA's June 2026 directive mandates three-day r…