America’s AI boom forces a reckoning over who pays the bill, who benefits in the end
AI data centers are driving up U.S. electricity bills, and a June 2026 survey shows voters oppose them by more than two to one.
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U.S. bans imports of foreign-made humanoid robots, citing China as national security risk
The FCC moved to block new imports of foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security concerns aimed at China.
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Claude Mythos Cracked Post-Quantum Cryptography That Humans Spent Years Failing to Break
Anthropic's Claude Mythos 4 reportedly solved a lattice-based cryptography challenge that had stumped researchers since 2018, raising fresh questions about AI in security.
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Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that banning advanced Chinese AI in the US is "not an effective solution," siding with startups and Nvidia against OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Perplexity launches Personal Computer for Windows
Perplexity's agent platform, Personal Computer, is now available on Windows, bringing multi-model orchestration to over a billion devices.
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GrapheneOS Wipe At Airport Leads To Federal Charge In Atlanta
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta are charging Samuel Tunick under a property-destruction statute for entering a duress password that wiped his Pixel at Hartsfield-Jackson.
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X Money begins limited US rollout for Premium subscribers
X Money has launched in limited beta for Premium and Premium+ subscribers in the US, offering a deposit account, peer-to-peer payments, and a debit card through Visa and Apple Wallet.
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Industry Leaders Form Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
NVIDIA and more than 30 founding partners have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared, open tools that defend critical systems in the age of AI agents.
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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and dozens of tech firms urge Washington not to restrict open-weight AI
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and 47 other organizations signed an open letter urging Washington to keep open-weight AI models available, arguing they are critical to U.S. AI leadership.
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China bans minors from AI companion chatbots as population shrinks
Beijing bars minors from AI partner chatbots and forces crisis monitoring, prompting ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to pull features.
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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business with QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365 connectors
Anthropic introduced Claude for Small Business on May 13, 2026, a Claude Cowork package that runs agentic workflows inside QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.
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LG says it will suspend smart TV apps that turn webOS devices into residential proxy nodes
LG Electronics says it will remove proxy options from webOS apps or suspend them, after researchers found 42% of scanned LG TV apps contained proxy SDKs.
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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight MoE coding model that activates 8B per token and rivals larger models on coding benchmarks.
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AI-driven system at University of Toronto discovers six new metal alloys for jet engines and nuclear power
University of Toronto researchers used an AI-driven self-driving lab to discover six new metal alloys for jet engines and nuclear power in weeks.
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Flock Safety abandons audio surveillance pilot after public backlash and civil liberties concerns
Flock Safety canceled its audio "distress detection" pilot after public backlash, while thousands of microphones remain deployed across U.S. communities.
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