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Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok published a Marginal Revolution post on June 16, 2026, warning that regional AI champions like France's Mistral could create political leverage and cross-border dependence across Europe…
A U.S. federal judge dismissed with prejudice a trade-secret lawsuit by Elon Musk's xAI against OpenAI, ruling that xAI failed to show OpenAI induced a former engineer to disclose confidential information during recruitm…
A translator working on an AI safety awareness flyer for schools in northern Nigeria found that key terms like 'deepfakes' and 'prompt' have no direct equivalents in Hausa, forcing approximations that risk losing meaning…
OpenAI projected $34 billion in spending on R&D, sales, and marketing in 2025 as it prepares for an IPO that could value it at $1 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The AI company reported $13 billion in revenue…
Cybersecurity expert Chris Hughes discusses the rise of machine identities and agentic AI, emphasizing the need for new security measures to maintain trust as systems gain autonomy in enterprises.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees the company's rollout of its new Applied AI organization was 'atrocious,' according to an internal post seen by WIRED. The rare admission comes as Meta tries to contain employee an…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to restrict foreign access to its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over national security concerns, prompting the company to take both models offline. The move sent decentralized …
TikTok's UK ad business, growing 40% year on year, faces a setback after Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed plans to ban under-16s from the platform. The proposed legislation targets multiple social media platforms, a…
Tyler Cowen warns that Europe's AI nationalism could lead to intra-European dependencies, as France's Mistral AI may dominate the EU market, giving France and Mistral leverage over other European countries and French pol…
The White House issued an export-control designation on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, barring any foreign national from using them, after Amazon shared a jailbreak demonstration with administration officials. …
Researchers from UNSW, University of Sydney, and UTS will present at the Australian AI Safety Forum 2026 on how neurotechnology could impact AI safety, exploring the 'neural democratisation of AI' hypothesis. The talk wi…
The EU's AI Act, effective August 2024, has stifled innovation by focusing on regulation while the US and China advanced in AI, leaving Europe behind. The UK, post-Brexit, has leveraged regulatory freedom to stay competi…
Ahrefs analyzed logs from 137,000 domains and found 97% of llms.txt files received zero requests, with only 1,100 domains seeing any traffic. AI retrieval bots from ChatGPT and Perplexity accounted for just 1% of request…
The European Union released a set of icons for labelling AI-generated content under the AI Act transparency rules. Deployers of generative AI systems can use the icons to label deep fakes and AI-generated text on public …
Researchers introduced the Membership Inference Test (MINT) Demo 2, a framework to detect whether specific data were used in training machine learning models, achieving up to 90% accuracy in tests on face recognition mod…
Researchers developed a formal theory of cognitive debt, where using AI as a substitute for first-principles cognition accumulates unverified reasoning obligations. The model shows that rational agents incur cognitive de…
Researchers developed a model and benchmark for attribute inference from interactive targeted ads, showing that repeated campaigns with identity exposure produce measurable but bounded inference signals, with disclosure …
The Department of Justice intervened Monday in an NAACP lawsuit challenging xAI's operation of 46 unpermitted natural gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center in Mississippi, arguing that halting the turbines threatens…
Brazilian public sector AI project Rio 3.5 Open accidentally released an incomplete checkpoint, which was later removed. The model, built on Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 and Nex-AGI's Nex-N2 Pro, was not a foundational model but a…
OpenAI's 'Practical Guide to Building Agents' has sparked a debate with LangChain CEO Harrison Chase, who called it 'misguided' and published a detailed rebuttal. The conflict highlights a core tension in AI engineering …