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Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' argues that AI is largely overhyped and won't replace most jobs due to high costs and poor performance, but the reviewer questions whether such cert…
The US government has declined to add Chinese AI firm DeepSeek to its trade blacklists despite documented national security concerns, state-level bans, and congressional legislation. Federal officials say there is 'nothi…
G7 leaders discussed a plan to grant select 'trusted partners' access to advanced U.S. AI models from Anthropic, potentially bypassing restrictions on non-American use. The talks, held on the sidelines of the G7 summit i…
OpenAI's ChatGPT will be deployed on the Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform in early July, providing a custom, government-approved version to over 3 million defense personnel. The instance is certified for controlled unclassi…
The Pentagon disclosed in a sworn filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to support over 2,000 missile strikes within 96 hours, marking a significant deployment of commercial AI in military operations. The filing, repor…
The Commerce Department imposed export controls on two of Anthropic's advanced AI models on June 13, forcing the company to globally disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The move reignited congressional debate over A…
France's domestic intelligence service will replace US tech company Palantir's AI data tools with those from French firm ChapsVision to avoid strategic dependency, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced. The move ref…
The US has delayed blacklisting Chinese AI developer DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT, and over 100 other firms to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing amid ongoing trade negotiations. The Commerce Department's Entity L…
Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spoken internationally about the responsible and principled use of artificial intelligence. The Church rele…
Yahoo outlines its cookie and data collection practices for users in the EU, explaining how personal data is used for analytics, personalized advertising, and content measurement, and offers options to accept, reject, or…
Anthropic paused a planned billing change for its Claude Agent SDK that would have shifted developers from subscription-based pricing to pay-per-token API rates, after heavy users warned of massive cost increases. The re…
Four days after Washington cut foreign access to Anthropic's top models, Cohere reports a surge in government inquiries, DeepSeek closed a record $7.4 billion funding round, and Chinese AI labs slashed token prices up to…
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock on June 16, 2026, raising concerns about using the same AI stack for both code generation and review. Industry data shows a 14x increase in AI-ge…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all foreign nationals, citing national security concerns over a jailbreak that could weaponize the models' vulnerability-hunt…
Anthropic paused a planned billing change for its Claude Agent SDK on June 15, which would have separated programmatic usage from subscription pools and charged API rates. The change would have ended an implicit subsidy …
A letter writer warns that California's state-mandated upzoning, which forces cities to add thousands of new housing units without ensuring adequate evacuation routes, is creating deadly wildfire risks. The writer cites …
A proposed moratorium on new large data centres in Hamilton advanced after a municipal committee cleared a procedural hurdle on Tuesday, as reported by The Canadian Press. The pause targets power-hungry facilities while …
The Pentagon disclosed in a Justice Department filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to target over 2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets in Iran within 96 hours, calling continued operation of xAI data centers a m…
Hundreds of Pittsburg residents packed city hall Monday night to oppose a previously approved data center, citing environmental concerns and lack of transparency. The project, approved in 2024, is the first phase of a th…
Executives and technical leaders from the US and its allies urge Commerce Secretary Lutnick and National Cyber Director Cairncross to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos AI models, arguing the restrictio…