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A MAGA-friendly advocacy group, Innovation Council Action, announced a $100m push to promote Trump's AI agenda but has shown no spending or activity months later, with a related PAC defunct and a dissolution filing quick…
Leaked records reveal that billionaire investor Peter Thiel has secretly led an invite-only club called Dialog, which hosted retreats featuring sessions on sex, cult-building, and World War III preparations. The leaked d…
The US Department of Justice has intervened to defend Elon Musk's xAI against a Clean Air Act lawsuit, arguing that the company's unpermitted gas turbines near Memphis are a matter of national security. The NAACP and env…
The Trump administration issued an export control directive restricting non-US nationals from accessing Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, citing national security concerns over jailbreak vulnerabilities. Anthro…
U.S. AI firm Anthropic opened a Seoul office on Wednesday to strengthen ties with Korea's AI ecosystem, citing shared values of innovation and safety. The office will support local organizations using Claude, and aligns …
WitnessAI launched Agentic Control on June 17, 2026, a single control plane to discover, monitor, govern, and restrict AI agent behaviors and their interactions with tools and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The pr…
ICIMS reported a 9% year-over-year increase in U.S. job openings in May, but hiring rose only 1% and application volume fell 11%, signaling a growing skills mismatch. Demand for AI-related roles such as computer programm…
A joint report from Genpact and HFS Research finds the world's top 2,000 public companies hold nearly $18 trillion in untapped AI value, blocked by what the study calls 'enterprise debt'—a mix of outdated technology, poo…
Top AI executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, attended a G7 working lunch in Evian on June 17 focused on safe AI deployment. The meeting followed …
The European Commission announced the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a plan to reduce the EU's reliance on foreign tech in semiconductors, AI, cloud, and open source. The package includes Chips Act 2.0, the …
Poland's state development bank BGK, through its venture arm Vinci, acquired an $11 million stake in AI-voice company ElevenLabs, valued at $11 billion, and launched AI Lab Poland to support domestic AI startups. The mov…
SummerHill Homes and Cypress Equity Investments plan to build 446 homes at 3550 N. First St. in San Jose, replacing a vacant office building with 373 affordable apartments and 73 market-rate townhouses. The project aims …
Estonia plans to assign personal identification codes to AI agents to track their actions online and identify the people or companies behind them, Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced. The program aims to establish li…
HIVE Digital Technologies announced a CAD $3.5 billion AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area, aiming to support Canada's goal of 850 MW of sovereign compute by 2030. The 320 MW facility, expected to go live in 2027,…
More than 16,000 people, including SAG-AFTRA members and the general public, have signed an open letter demanding Congress pass the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill that would create a federal intellectual property right …
Warner Music Group acquired startup Sureel, which partners with Swedish copyright agency STIM to track AI training data usage and pay musicians. SoundVerse advocates for ongoing artist royalties from AI outputs. These in…
EarnOS, the company behind the ero mobile app, raised $6 million in a Pre-Series A round led by 1kx, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Circle Ventures, to combat AI-generated internet traffic. The funding inc…
Forbes reports that as few as 130 of thousands of AI agent offerings are genuinely autonomous, with many engaging in 'agent washing.' Documented incidents include agents making unauthorized changes to production database…
Estonia's AI Council proposes government-backed digital identities for AI agents, defining their rights and responsibilities. Prime Minister Kristen Michal supports the plan, aiming to make Estonia the first country to c…
A court filing alleges the Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI, developed by xAI, to launch over 2,000 missiles at Iran in a 96-hour period, marking a significant escalation in U.S.-Iran conflict and highlighting AI integr…