The U.S. government issued a directive requiring Anthropic to block all foreign nationals — including its own foreign-national employees — from accessing its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns. The order does not just regulate who can use an AI model. It defines who can work on one. Business Insider reporters…
Apple is raising prices on MacBooks and iPads because the AI boom is driving up the cost of memory and storage. The move turns an abstract infrastructure race into a consumer-price story: the cost of AI is beginning to show up at checkout. Apple’s latest price increase is not just a product-pricing decision. It is…
During Belgium’s Group G draw with Iran on June 21, former Yugoslav striker and Serbian television pundit Rade Bogdanovic used a live World Cup broadcast to deliver a racial stereotype that the sport had not invited, was not provoked into, and has no structural mechanism to prevent from happening again. The setup was Nathan Ngoy’s…
Illinois enacted legislation permitting rideshare drivers to unionize—a structural shift in how gig work is legally organized. Understanding what that change means requires looking at what it does and does not alter about driver power, platform control, and the economics of the rideshare model. Rideshare platforms—Uber, Lyft, and others—have historically classified drivers as independent contractors,…
AP reported that consumer prices rose 4.2 percent in May from a year earlier, the highest inflation rate in three years and the third consecutive monthly increase, according to the Labor Department. Energy prices drove more than 60 percent of the monthly gain. Gasoline prices are up 40.5 percent over the past year. Prices at…
Reuters reported that Cuban lawmakers approved sweeping economic reforms this week with backing from the Communist Party and former leader Raul Castro. The package would permit private real estate development, allow some state enterprises to convert into shareholding companies, legalize private banking, and allow entrepreneurs to operate multiple businesses with more than 100 employees. Those…
Reuters Breakingviews reported that employment in Los Angeles’ motion picture and sound recording industries has fallen 40 percent since 2022, shooting days in and around the city have been cut roughly in half since 2021, and studios greenlit approximately 428 scripted series last year — about 200 fewer than in 2022. Those numbers describe a…
WIRED reported that Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council developed the Think Family Database between 2016 and 2023 — a predictive policing system that collected sensitive data on nearly half a million residents, combining police reports, mental health records, school data, and other information into a risk-scoring platform. More than 23 predictive models…
Reuters reported that Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas introduced the AI Incident Reporting Act, a bill that would require AI companies to report significant safety incidents, security breaches, and dangerous model behavior to the U.S. Commerce Department within seven days of discovery. In cases involving serious threats, Commerce would then be required to notify Congress…
Reuters reported that EU antitrust regulators have preliminarily concluded that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act — a classification that would impose stricter requirements around self-preferencing, interoperability, and data portability. The EU’s concerns include the scale of each platform’s user base, their AI partnerships, their…