China has expanded travel restrictions to cover top AI researchers at private companies including Alibaba and DeepSeek. Personnel working on strategically important projects must now obtain government permission before leaving the country, marking a new phase in the US-China AI competition....
Two men were arrested under the TAKE IT DOWN Act for creating and distributing AI-generated deepfake pornography. The FBI found them by searching hashtags on porn sites — one suspect even used his own photo as his profile picture....
ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans lays off 22% of staff, replacing them with 3,000 internal AI agents while promising million-dollar salaries for survivors who master AI tools — a bold experiment in the AI workforce revolution....
Pope Leo XIV releases 'Magnifica Humanitas,' a 42,300-word encyclical making AI ethics a religious imperative, presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah at the Vatican....
Amazon commits 3 billion to cloud and AI infrastructure across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand by 2039, but conspicuously excludes the Philippines from its massive Southeast Asia investment plan....
Researchers propose Direct Corpus Interaction (DCI) — giving AI agents terminal access to search raw data with grep/find/cat instead of relying on vector databases. Results show 80% accuracy (up from 69%) at 30% lower cost....
Ferrari partnered with IBM to overhaul its fan app using AI, resulting in a 62% engagement spike. The app now features AI-written race summaries, predictions, games, and a conversational AI companion....
AgentBear analysis reveals a chilling pattern: AI-generated content flooding across music, video, and streaming platforms using bot farms, with platforms scrambling for human verification. The real target may not be entertainment at all....
Google Research unveils ERA (Empirical Research Assistance) in Nature, ReasoningBank for agent memory, and Gemini for Science — signaling a shift from chatbots to AI research collaborators....
China launches world's first commercial underwater AI data center off Shanghai with 2,000 servers, seawater cooling, and offshore wind power, achieving remarkable 1.15 PUE efficiency while training domestic large language models....
