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A federal judge indicated she will likely allow state discrimination claims against Workday to proceed, rejecting the company's argument that it cannot be held liable under California anti-discrimination laws for its AI …
The University of Cincinnati denied knowing about quarterback Brendan Sorsby's gambling when he transferred from Indiana, contradicting claims by his agent Ron Slavin that the school was aware. Sorsby, who placed 9,000 b…
President Donald Trump said negotiations with AI company Anthropic are progressing well, speaking at the G7 summit on June 17, 2026, amid a months-long standoff involving federal bans and export controls. The dispute cen…
WebKit has formally opposed the WebMCP standard, citing redundancy with the accessibility tree as a key concern. A developer argues that the opposition is constructive engineering feedback and that the right approach is …
Dame Antonia Romeo, the newly appointed UK cabinet secretary, is leading a review of the civil service's organization, performance, and transformation, with a focus on the impact of AI and technology, recruitment challen…
Millions of people are confiding in AI therapy chatbots, but a KFF Health News investigation reveals that mental health data is dangerously exposed. Researchers found 1,575 vulnerabilities in popular Android mental healt…
The enrollment cliff, driven by declining birth rates since 2007, will force many U.S. colleges to close or merge by 2029, with small private and regional public schools most at risk. Schools like Merritt College and Mil…
The Pentagon disclosed in a legal filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets within 96 hours, marking the first formal acknowledgment of a commercial generative AI model in kinetic t…
The U.S. government ordered restrictions on access to frontier Anthropic models, prompting Anthropic to disable global access to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, cutting off Indian developers and enterprises. The…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models by any foreign national, effectively redefining export controls to cover remote access to AI capabilities rather than j…
Sovereign AI—end-to-end ownership of data, model, and interaction layer—is becoming a strategic imperative for organizations of all sizes, not just nations. McKinsey predicts a $600 billion market by 2030, with 71% of ex…
The Bank of England is expected to hold interest rates at 3.75% on June 18, as inflation remains above the 2% target at 2.8%. The decision reflects a cautious stance amid geopolitical tensions and energy price pressures,…
The rise of AI/LLM-generated patches is slowing down ARM64 Linux kernel development, according to maintainer Will Deacon. The extra review burden has pushed some features to future cycles, though Linux 7.2 still includes…
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) is preparing legislation to mandate government safety reviews of advanced AI models, arguing that voluntary industry compliance is insufficient to address risks such as cybersecurity threats a…
More than three-quarters of U.S. psychologists report patients discussing AI in therapy, with 35% using chatbots as an additional mental health professional and 39% self-diagnosing with AI help, according to the American…
A Santa Clara County civil grand jury report sharply criticized the Valley Transportation Authority for mismanaging the nearly $13 billion San Jose BART extension, citing failures in financial risk control, oversight, an…
Enterprise AI teams face frequent model access disruptions from API deprecations, provider outages, rate limits, policy enforcement, pricing changes, and geopolitical restrictions. To avoid catastrophic workflow failures…
Chinese AI labs are using gray market access to Western AI models for distillation attacks, training their own models on outputs from US providers like OpenAI. This practice, which involves querying APIs at scale through…
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weights model under MIT license that scores 74.4% on FrontierSWE, beating OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and trailing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by one point at roughly a sixth of the cost. The mode…
GitLab released version 19.1 on June 18, 2026, introducing AI-powered false positive detection for secret scanning, mandatory GitLab Duo enablement for enterprise governance, automatic code owner reviewer assignment, com…