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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…
A July 5, 2026 arXiv paper proposes a Generative AI Control Framework to help financial institutions align generative AI governance with the Federal Reserve's SR 26-2, which modernizes model risk management. The framewor…
By 2026, AI agents moved from demos to production, introducing runaway costs from tool calls and recursive reasoning. A VentureBeat survey found 79% of enterprises took financial hits from autonomous agents, while Uber b…
Researchers introduced CAGE-1, an evaluation framework for enterprise agentic AI that assesses control, assurance, and governance before deployment. The framework tests authority, policy enforcement, retrieval quality, m…
Ryska opinionsinstitutet Levadacentret, trots sin stämpling som utländsk agent sedan 2016, fortsätter att mäta ett stabilt stöd för Vladimir Putin bland ryssar, även efter ukrainska drönarattacker. Institutets chef Denis…
NVIDIA detailed how nations are deploying sovereign AI for strategic priorities, including economic growth, national security, and cultural preservation. Examples include France's ThinkDeep AI agents for public services,…
Universities are increasingly relying on AI-detection software to identify AI-generated text in student applications and assignments, but the tools are unreliable and can falsely flag human-written content, as experience…
Panoptes, an AI audit and alignment layer, launches to provide universal observability, audit trails, and policy enforcement for AI coding agents like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, and Hermes Agent. The …
China's new AI regulations take effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to disable agent and persona features. The 'Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Se…
AI workloads are driving uncontrolled cloud costs, with some environments seeing expenses double in 30 days due to ungoverned LLM endpoints, vector databases, and GPU instances. The problem mirrors earlier cloud sprawl b…
Microsoft оголосила про скорочення 4 800 співробітників (2,1% персоналу) через стрімке зростання витрат на інфраструктуру штучного інтелекту та необхідність підвищення ефективності бізнесу. Акції компанії впали майже на …
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced that artificial intelligence will be the 'central plank' of the city's economic development, guided by its first five-year blueprint and upcoming policy address. Speaking at t…
Chinese firms are shifting from Nvidia to domestic AI chips as Beijing certifies nine homegrown processors for state procurement, potentially collapsing Nvidia's China market share from 66% to 8% by 2026. Huawei's Ascend…
Apple now routes user data to Google Cloud for AI processing, undermining its privacy promises. Google automatically opted users into storing uploaded media for AI training. The partnership creates a data pipeline betwee…