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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…
U.S. developers and startups are increasingly turning to Chinese AI models like DeepSeek for cost savings, with some reporting costs as low as 50 cents compared to $10 for similar tasks on U.S. models. Despite performanc…
Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst argues that the recent ban of Anthropic's AI model in certain jurisdictions validates Cohere's push for sovereign AI, emphasizing the need for countries to control their own AI infrastructur…
CIOs must treat sovereignty as a permanent design constraint, reshaping enterprise architecture decisions around data residency, regulatory compliance, and geopolitical risk. The shift from global infrastructure to locat…
Databricks announced the Unity AI Gateway partner ecosystem at Data + AI Summit 2026, integrating with over a dozen security, identity, and observability vendors to govern AI interactions across models, agents, and tools…