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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…
The G7 formally launched a Critical Minerals Resilience and Production Alliance at the June 2026 summit in Évian, creating a cooperative platform to coordinate emergency responses and reduce dependency on China for miner…
Intel's price-to-sales ratio surged from under 2x to over 11x in a year, driven by AI chip momentum, government equity stake, and strong earnings. The rapid valuation increase draws comparisons to dot-com era excess, rai…
Whire's EU payment agent architecture uses a consent_url pattern where an LLM drafts payments and a human approves before execution, solving hallucination risks for low-volume transactions. However, as scale increases to…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are attending a G7 CEO lunch in Evian-les-Bains, days after the U.S. blocked EU access to Anthropic's latest AI models. European leaders aim to use the meeting to rebu…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended a working lunch with G7 leaders in France on June 17, days after US export controls on Anthropic's models triggered a global access shutdown and renewed Europ…
Los Gatos Mayor Rob Moore hosted a Youth Town Hall at West Valley College, drawing about 200 students for panel discussions, breakout sessions, and a resource fair to foster community engagement. Separately, Caltrans rem…
OpenAI backers spent $7.6 million to defeat New York Assemblyman Alex Bores in a congressional primary, while Anthropic-funded groups spent over $10 million to support him, turning the race into a proxy battle over AI re…
The US Department of Commerce awarded AI startup SandboxAQ $500 million under the CHIPS Act to develop new semiconductor materials, reducing reliance on Chinese supply chains. The government takes an equity stake and roy…
Anthropic's Fable model remains offline after two days of meetings in Washington, with prediction markets showing a 55% chance of restoration by July 1. Security expert Katie Moussouris confirmed there was no jailbreak—t…
A WordPress VIP survey found 60% of US consumers say brands using 'AI' in messaging is a turnoff, while enterprise teams spend 16.6 hours weekly chasing AI search visibility. Multiple studies show consumer trust in AI ha…
Anthropic published an updated privacy policy effective July 8, 2026, detailing how it collects, uses, and processes personal data from users of its website, Claude.ai, and other services. The policy covers data such as …
Estonia plans to issue personal identification numbers to AI assistants, becoming the first nation to do so, Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced. The IDs aim to give agents limited, controllable, and auditable author…
Forbes Tech Council warns that organizations are playing 'AI hot potato' by passing accountability for AI risks between departments, creating governance blind spots. The article argues that enterprises must establish exp…