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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…
OpenAI spent $3.7 billion in Q1 2026, tripling its cash burn year-over-year, while revenue reached $5.7 billion. The company holds $73 billion in cash and securities after a $122 billion funding round, allowing it to sus…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Claude Fable 5 AI model for non-U.S. nationals after Amazon reported jailbreaking vulnerabilities to the Commerce Department. The administration rejecte…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called for new social norms to coexist with AI during an Associated Press interview at a groundbreaking ceremony in Sherman, Texas, urging society to stop fearing the technology and instead treat …
A developer argues that most Python interview question lists optimize for memorization rather than job-relevant skills. The guide provides questions with 'signal' and 'trivia tax' flags to help candidates focus on transf…
The U.S. Department of Justice on June 16 asked a federal court to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit against xAI's Mississippi data center, arguing that shutting down unpermitted natural gas turbines would threaten national secur…