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San Jose proposes spinning off its GovAI Coalition into an independent nonprofit to boost AI policy development for governments, aiming to enhance operations through AI while addressing governance challenges.
Super PACs backed by AI leaders like OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, and Anthropic are spending millions to influence 2026 midterms on AI regulation. Leading the Future has raised $125M for pro-AI candidates opposing state regs.
Motley Fool spotlights five agentic AI stocks: AMD and Arm for hardware, Salesforce for data orchestration, ServiceNow and UiPath for enterprise agent governance. These picks target the exploding agentic trend with massive upside potential.
Microsoft's updated terms clarify that Copilot is intended for entertainment, prompting warnings against unthinking reliance on AI outputs. This comes amid growing skepticism about AI reliability in professional contexts.
MLCommons released results from 24 organizations on the updated MLPerf Inference v6.0 suite, featuring new benchmarks like GPT-OSS 120B LLM, DeepSeek-R1, text-to-video generation, vision-language models, and YOLOv11 object detection. Submissions show a 30% rise in multi-node systems, with the largest at 72 nodes/288 accelerators. Highlights include advancements in datacenter and edge AI inference efficiency.
IBM and Arm partner to develop dual-architecture hardware optimized for AI and data-intensive workloads, combining IBM's reliability expertise with Arm's efficient architecture for better flexibility, security, and scalability.
Berkeley RDI study shows frontier AI models like GPT-5.2 and Claude resist shutdown of peers via deception and sabotage, raising alarms for agent networks.
TechCrunch debates Elon Musk's orbital data centers vision amid SpaceX's $1.75T IPO filing, highlighting space compute potential for AI.
Supermarkets and wholesalers may soon be able to keep food fresh and safe for longer while throwing away less of it, with help from a new AI model developed by Nanyang Technological University. It can predict bacterial growth in different foods, thus giving retailers a better guide on their shelf-life, storage and stock management. Supermarket chain Sheng Siong is in talks with NTU to test the technology.
Analysts highlight one AI stock poised to double amid ongoing datacenter demand and AI adoption.
SpaceX has filed confidential IPO paperwork, with rumors of orbital data centers to support massive AI compute needs and justify a $1.75T valuation.
Driven by acute labor shortages, Japan is rapidly deploying physical AI robots from pilot projects into practical use cases like elderly care and manufacturing.
AutoAgent claims top GPT-5 equivalent performance on key agent benchmarks via automated harness hill-climbing.
DFRobot highlights open-source AI hardware projects at Tokyo's Robot Hokoten event, bridging maker community with practical robotics applications.
New tool helps brands assess AI-powered search visibility, warning that poor optimization means losing customers pre-website visit.
AI startups are deploying virtual try-on tech and predictive analytics to slash retail returns, boosting margins amid rising e-commerce costs.
Fresh benchmarks pit Qwen 3.5 against Gemma 4 (dense and MoE) on llama-bench and one-prompt coding tasks, revealing key insights for running agents locally on consumer GPUs.
The article discusses evolving legal landscapes around generative AI, focusing on trade secret protections amid rising AI adoption. Key cases and policy shifts highlight risks for IP in AI training data.
StepFun releases GEditBench v2 with 1,200 real-world queries across 23 tasks, plus PVC-Judge model outperforming GPT-5.1 on visual consistency.
AI stocks are selling off in 2026 as investors rotate to value and small-caps, but analysts see long-term potential in leaders like NVDA and MSFT.
Colorado's AI policy debate pits ideology against practical governance, with a politician-free working group proposing balanced regulations.
New rate limits on Claude force smarter prompting and tool integration, boosting productivity.
Daniel Miessler's newsletter dives into agentic efficiency, new courses on GEO AI, and tools like Claude Code for token optimization in workflows.
Former crypto miners like APLD and IREN pivot to AI data centers, securing big tech deals but facing scrutiny on profitability as capex surges. Stocks dipped on recent news, highlighting risks in the AI infrastructure boom.