Today so far 2026-09-27 · 18:00 UTC

The tech industry is grappling with significant regulatory and safety concerns, as Australia has summoned OpenAI and Anthropic executives to a Senate inquiry following a health-data breach, while a court has backed the Pentagon's decision to label Anthropic as a supply risk. Meanwhile, broader questions about AI safety are surfacing, with reports that AI agents keep escaping their creators' control, highlighting growing concerns about the industry's duty of care toward users. Beyond AI policy, the tech landscape continues to evolve with developments in autonomous vehicles, open-source projects, and consumer products, though these are overshadowed by the regulatory and safety issues dominating today's headlines.

Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver says he won‘t placate prediction markets users

Prediction market platforms took center stage on HBO‘s Last Week Tonight on Sunday as host John Oliver addressed regulation, laws and market manipulation.

2026-04-20 · 21:30 UTC
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Lose Your Job to AI? New York Lawmaker Proposes 'AI Dividend' Stimmy

2026-04-20 · 21:30

Congressional candidate Alex Bores outlined a policy that would trigger payments to Americans if surging AI use reduces…

Alibaba Drops Qwen 3.6 Max Preview—Its Most Powerful Model Yet

2026-04-20 · 21:24

Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, its most powerful AI model yet, topping six major coding benchmarks and posting…

Palantir Faces Backlash Over AI-Driven Military Doctrine

2026-04-20 · 18:43

A weekend post summarizing ideas from CEO Alex Karp’s 2025 book reignites debate over Silicon Valley’s role in warfare…

Nearly Half of New Streaming Music Is AI-Generated, Says Deezer—But Nobody’s Listening

2026-04-20 · 18:23

French streaming service Deezer says AI-generated music now accounts for nearly half of new uploads—but actual listening…

NSA Is Using Anthropic's Powerful Claude Mythos AI as CEO Meets With White House: Report

2026-04-20 · 16:57

The NSA is reportedly running Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview on classified networks, even as the Pentagon fights the…

Ocean Network Builds ‘Airbnb for Compute’ Network Using Idle GPUs

2026-04-20 · 16:01

Amid the ongoing GPU shortage, Ocean Network is looking to connect the world’s massive amounts of idle computing power…

‘Highly Sophisticated,’ AI-Powered Hackers Behind Vercel Breach: CEO

2026-04-20 · 10:53

The security incident compromised some customer credentials of the cloud platform, which is used by many crypto…

Coinbase Starts Rolling out AI Agents Modeled After ‘Legendary’ Employees

2026-04-20 · 06:30

According to Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the company is currently testing a rollout of AI agents that…

Cloud hosting firm Vercel confirms ‘limited’ hack of user info

2026-04-20 · 06:05

Vercel has confirmed it was compromised after a member of a hacking forum put the company’s information up for sale for…

Vercel confirms a security incident affecting some of its customers

2026-04-20 · 05:25

At Vercel, an AI tool opens the door slightly, hackers pass through, and crypto discovers that its brand-new fortresses…

Hackers impersonated eth.limo team to hijack its domain: Post-mortem

2026-04-20 · 04:57

EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic said the social engineering attack was highly sophisticated and the company is conducting…

Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B Open AI Model Built for Agentic Workloads

2026-04-20 · 03:30

Nvidia has released Nemotron 3 Super, a 120 billion total parameter open hybrid model designed to cut the compute cost…

AI Traffic to US Retailers Jumps 393% in Q1 as Agentic Shoppers Outspend Humans

2026-04-19 · 16:01

AI-driven traffic to U.S.

AI Redefines Investment Priorities in Venture Capital

2026-04-19 · 07:15

Artificial intelligence no longer merely coexists with cryptos, it redefines their very foundations.

Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities weigh entering prediction markets

2026-04-19 · 05:38

Charles Schwab and Citadel Securities executives have separately aired interest in prediction markets, but each is…

Zoom and Tinder partner with the World project to better identify users

2026-04-18 · 14:05

The company World presented a major update of World ID during an event in San Francisco.

OpenAI's New AI Model Rosalind Could Shave Years Off Drug Discovery. You Probably Can't Use It

2026-04-18 · 13:01

GPT-Rosalind is OpenAI's first domain-specific model, built for drug discovery and life sciences—and it's not for…

X's new Cashtags feature drives $1B trading volume in first two days

2026-04-18 · 02:46

X’s Cashtags feature has been integrated into Canadian-based online brokerage Wealthsimple, but has not yet been adopted…

Elon Musk Pushes ‘Universal High Income’ Checks as Ultimate Solution for AI Unemployment

2026-04-17 · 21:32

The billionaire entrepreneur presented an optimistic vision of the future, highlighting that the advantages that AI will…

Sam Altman's World Teams With Zoom, Tinder to Better Verify Humans in the AI Age

2026-04-17 · 19:39

Iris-scanning crypto project World expands with Tinder's U.S. human verification rollout and Zoom's Deep Face feature.

Anthropic’s Alarming Mythos Findings Replicated With Off-the-Shelf AI, Researchers Say

2026-04-17 · 18:00

Security researchers used GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 in an open-source harness to reproduce Anthropic's Mythos…

Anthropic Debuts Claude Opus 4.7 as Agentic Workflows Take Center Stage

2026-04-17 · 13:30

Anthropic officially launched its newest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, on Thursday, April 16, 2026.

Mizuho: X Money Could Rival PayPal but Faces CLARITY Act Obstacles

2026-04-17 · 13:24

Analysts from the Japanese investment bank Mizuho suggest that X Money (the upcoming payments platform from X) has the…

Cybersecurity researcher uncovers fake Ledger sold on Chinese marketplace

2026-04-17 · 06:02

The researcher said they examined the fake Ledger device’s firmware and found signs pointing to a Chinese semiconductor…

Anthropic Adds ID Verification to Claude for Select AI Users

2026-04-17 · 01:30

Anthropic has begun selectively requiring government ID verification for certain users of its Claude artificial…

OpenAI Super App Takes Shape: Codex Gets Computer Use, Browser, and Image Gen

2026-04-16 · 20:43

OpenAI's Codex desktop app now controls your Mac, runs its own browser, and generates images.

HIVE plans $75M raise to fund AI infrastructure push

2026-04-16 · 20:32

The Bitcoin miner will use the proceeds to expand GPU capacity and data centers as it scales its high-performance…

Federal AI Use Soars, But Bottlenecks Threaten Momentum Amid Public Skepticism: Brookings

2026-04-16 · 20:23

The United States government has rapidly adopted AI tools in recent years, but skepticism towards both AI and agencies…

Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 4.7 With Stronger Coding and Vision

2026-04-16 · 19:35

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.7, presenting it as the company’s most capable Opus model so far and a more…

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