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The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at 3.50%-3.75% amid a US AI boom, while the European Central Bank hiked rates to 2.25% despite weak Eurozone growth, creating a policy divergence that strengt…
China expanded its export controls beyond rare earths to additional strategic materials and technologies, targeting US advanced manufacturing, defense, and technology sectors. The new licensing requirements create uncert…
Cisco's AI security research team discovered a third-party plugin in the OpenClaw agent marketplace that silently exfiltrated sensitive data. The finding prompted the Chinese government to restrict OpenClaw on state comp…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models were suspended globally around June 13, 2026, after a U.S. export-control directive ordered the company to cut off access for foreign nationals on national-security grounds.…
French publisher Le Monde is blocking nearly all non-human traffic unless a licensing deal exists, including Google's AI training crawler Google Extended, as it explores ways to recognize paying subscribers accessing art…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an internal company-wide AI hackathon scheduled for July 14-16, aiming to revive hacker culture. Employees, many of whom absorbed workloads after roughly 8,000 recent layoffs, expressed…
Schroders Group CIO Johanna Kyrklund argues that AI and tech stocks are not in a bubble, citing strong cash flows at major firms like Meta and Google that distinguish the current boom from the dot-com era. However, she w…
A fintech startup deployed an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock without auditing it for prompt injection vulnerabilities. An employee successfully executed a prompt injection attack, leaking system instructions and…
China's National Healthcare Security Administration and the Guangxi government are extending their National Medical Imaging AI Competition to ASEAN nations, with promotional events held in Hanoi and Malaysia. The contest…
G7 leaders discussed a proposed 'trusted partners' framework to exempt allied nations from sweeping US restrictions on frontier AI models imposed June 12. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pitched the plan at the G7 summ…
China's employment-first policy is forcing companies like JD.com to slow AI adoption, risking productivity gains. A 2026 court ruling bars firms from firing workers replaced by AI, while youth unemployment and 12.7 milli…
China's securities regulator is pushing artificial intelligence companies to list on domestic and Hong Kong exchanges, reshaping capital-raising for the tech sector. Over 85% of Chinese AI-related IPOs in 2026 landed on …
The United States has decided not to blacklist Chinese AI company DeepSeek, while designating over 100 other Chinese firms as national security risks, signaling a targeted approach to technology restrictions.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an Associated Press interview that society must adopt new social norms as artificial intelligence becomes more widely used, urging people to engage with AI. He supported government regulat…
Hong Kong teachers must complete at least 30 hours of digital education training every three years under a new government blueprint to boost AI integration in schools. Primary and secondary schools are required to includ…
The US government pressured AI company Anthropic to restrict access to its latest models, 'Fable 5' and 'Mythos 5', to US citizens only, highlighting Europe's digital sovereignty challenges ahead of the G7 summit.
State Sen. Aisha Wahab led early returns with 42.63% of the vote in a special primary election to fill the remainder of former Rep. Eric Swalwell's term in California's Congressional District 14, after Swalwell resigned …
Organizations are shifting focus from AI tool access to AI maturity, integrating AI into engineering processes, governance, and talent strategies. The most mature teams develop a 'reflexive AI mindset' and become 'orches…
Gartner, presenting at its Data & Analytics Summit, forecasted that by 2030 more than 10% of enterprises will be AI-first, outperforming peers through faster adoption of AI agents, semantics, and converged data platforms…
Professor Seyedali Mirjalili of Western Sydney University warned in The Conversation that habitual use of large AI models for trivial tasks wastes significant physical resources, citing an International Energy Agency pro…