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Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate
Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned
Jun 19, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models fo…
Jun 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t
There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
Jun 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips
AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
Jun 18, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
Jun 18, 2026
Politico Technology
OpenAI hires former Trump AI official Dean Ball
The artificial intelligence giant has hired the former top White House AI adviser and lead author of the White House’s AI Action Plan.
Jun 18, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
Jun 18, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Sound Waves Give Neuromorphic Chips a Brain-Simulating Edge
By mimicking how the brain operates, neuromorphic computing can use dramatically less energy than conventional electronic AI chips. However, even the most sophisticated neuromorphic devices today are …
Jun 18, 2026
Politico Technology
Gottheimer readies AI bill to vet powerful AI models for risk
The New Jersey Democrat says advanced AI models should face mandatory government reviews for national security, critical infrastructure and bioterror risks.
Jun 18, 2026
The Register
Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number)
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn
Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions
Jun 17, 2026
Ars Technica
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties
Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
Jun 17, 2026
The Verge
Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands
Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including us…
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand
Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its…
Jun 17, 2026
Ars Technica
"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials
AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows
Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction
Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
Jun 17, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
How Musicians Can Get Paid for Training AI
Musicians are accustomed to getting paid each time their creative work is used. Across vinyl/CD sales, streams, radio, cover versions, and those numerous niches like karaoke, there are agreements in p…
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket
Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom
The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.
Jun 17, 2026
Politico Technology
Meta drops opposition to kids online safety bill if it overwrites state AI laws
The company’s objections helped kill the kids' safety bill nearly two years ago.
Jun 16, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines
NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.
Jun 16, 2026
The Register
AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created
Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
Jun 16, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Exclusive eBook: How AI is becoming the next military advisor
A collection of stories about how militaries are using AI models to make decisions. This subscriber-only eBook is a package of six stories that were originally published in MIT Technology Review betwe…
Jun 16, 2026
The Register
Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers
Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
Jun 16, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’
The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
Jun 16, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.
Jun 16, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This man with ALS is the first “power user” of a brain implant…
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users
SearchLeak exploit shows why the industry's approach to LLM security fails over and over.
Jun 16, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in moments …
Jun 16, 2026
The Register
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation
PARTNER CONTENT: From hyperscalers to enterprises, performance-per-watt and system-level efficiency are redefining the cloud compute foundation
Jun 16, 2026
The Verge
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5
As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. A…
Jun 16, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump promised to bring order to AI oversight. That lasted 2 weeks.
New restrictions on Anthropic are causing industry advocates to worry the White House’s plan for a laissez-faire approach to the technology is crumbling.
Jun 16, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump officials meet with Anthropic to discuss a truce
It will probably take more than a few days to reach a resolution that eases export restrictions on the company’s newest AI model, one White House official said.
Jun 15, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune fro…
Jun 15, 2026
The Register
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
Jun 15, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
Jun 15, 2026
The Register
Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site
Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability
Jun 15, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the abil…
Jun 15, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
This man with ALS is “the first power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak
Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost three years. Harrell, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is paralyzed, first used his brain-computer interface (…
Jun 15, 2026