US in talks with AI companies over voluntary standards for new models

US in talks with AI companies for voluntary model standards, FT reports

US in talks with AI companies for voluntary model standards, FT reports

Silicon Valley backed Trump to kill AI regulation, now the industry is begging for rules

The AI industry that donated heavily to elect Donald Trump on the promise he would leave the technology alone is now asking for formal regulation, Politico reported on Friday. Executives at frontier AI companies told the outlet they view the administration’s ad hoc approach to model oversight as more damaging than anything the Biden administration [] This story continues at The Next Web

Broadcom: Market's Tantrum Around The AI Guidance Is Misguided

Broadcom: Market's Tantrum Around The AI Guidance Is Misguided

2 Beaten-Down Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks That Will Surge at Least 40% Over the Next Year, According to Wall Street

Not all companies in the artificial intelligence sector have thrived this year.

We Believed The Computer God Could Do Everything

A lot of the big corps/institutions have done this without any actually proven use cases. It has been install AI and fire people.Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive Al adoption strategy backfired.The US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers, referred to internally as gray beards, over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automatedThis is how you get paid the big bucks:“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”I don't think older workers are automatically better in all fields, but there are some where keeping around the gray beards maintains necessary institutional knowledge that can't easily be maintained and transmitted otherwise.

US Anthropic ban is best advert for Chinese AI

Bankers working for JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong must have been miffed when they were shut off from using artificial intelligence (AI) models from Anthropic, a pioneering American firm in the field. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase pulled the plug in April and last week respectively, based on a strict interpretation of Anthropic’s terms of use, which reflect Washington’s stringent restrictions on China’s access to frontier American AI models. The banks’ decisions are seen as a...

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The Government Boot Is Coming Down on AI

The Trump administration suddenly has its eye on the AI industry, and Anthropic isn't the only target.

OpenAI in talks with US govt for 5% stake: Why would a company do that?

The proposal comes as AI firms navigate ties with Trump administration amid market concerns of unexpected US regulation.

More companies are rehiring workers they replaced with AI. Guess why? Tag line should tell ya [Obvious]

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Why a Broken Corporate Culture May Be What’s Sabotaging Your AI Rollout

Better tools can’t fix bad leadership.

Companies Are Facing Legal Battles For Misusing AI — Here’s How to Avoid Being One of Them

Companies are racing to adopt AI, but many can't explain how it's governed, who's accountable or what happens when it causes harm.

AI companies don't want to be legally responsible for their chatbots. US courts should make them.

AI companies don't want to be legally responsible for their chatbots. US courts should make them.

Majority of US workers want AI sovereign wealth fund: poll

A majority of U.S. employees now want to hold corporations more accountable via an AI sovereign wealth fund, amid dissatisfaction over a growing number of tech layoffs despite higher overall corporate profits, according to a recent poll. The national survey of 1,690 adults by research firm Verasight, which was carried out in June and published []...Click to read more

A new $500 million push to retrain workers for an AI-driven future

A new bipartisan nonprofit wants to help Americans who find they're out of work because of AI

Companies are shifting toward cheaper open‑source AI models to rein in costs, Amazon CTO says

Stories of runaway AI bills have been making some executives skittish about AI spending.

Consumer Goods Leaders Urged to Treat AI as Enterprise Mandate, Not IT Initiative

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 25 June 2026 - Speaking at the Global Summit of the Consumer Goods Forum, Dr Malina Ngai, Group CEO of AS Watson, shared a clear message to industry leaders: AI transformation is not an IT programme - it is a CEO mandate. Presenting on the subject ...

Dr Brand: The real AI failure? It's not the technology — It's the thinking

Dr Brand: The real AI failure? It's not the technology — It's the thinking

In AI race vs. U.S., China eyes victory in lower prices and broader appeal

U.S. AI companies seem to be in the lead, but that could be short-lived as Chinese competitors offer cheaper products with more commercial appeal worldwide.

US government shuts down Anthropic AI model – another proof why we need European digital sovereignty!

The hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues as its technology is rapidly advancing. Among the leading companies in the artificial intelligence industry is Anthropic. The company made headlines in June when it shut down its most advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, just three days after its release. The shut down came as a reaction of the US government ordering Anthropic to suspend access to its AI models to foreign nationals due to national security concerns. Has the Trump administration now set a precedent for a new tech sovereignty era?

AI vs. Workers w/ Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen

While we hear plenty of gloomy predictions about how the adoption of AI technologies will take away millions of jobs in the future, it’s already gutting labor rights and alienating workers right now. Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen are two of the researchers behind a new report on this matter, “Last Place in the AI-First Economy: How the AI Industry

New AI Agents Pose ‘Existential Threat’ to How Grants Are Awarded

New AI Agents Pose ‘Existential Threat’ to How Grants Are Awarded sara.custer@in Thu, 07/02/2026 - 03:00 AM The rapid development of technology is outpacing any attempts to reform assessment systems, researchers warn. Byline(s) Seher Asaf for Times Higher Education

The Biggest Mistake Business Owners Make With AI

By Marie Ryan, who is a marketing and AI trainer based in Ireland. Over the last two years, AI has gone from something most people had barely heard of to something almost everyone has tried at least once. Tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are now part of everyday business conversations, and most business []

The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free

Many organizations are still building the capabilities required to forecast, monitor, and manage AI spending effectively. The post Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free appeared first on Futurism.

Building Resilience In The Age Of Export-Controlled AI

The Anthropic restriction highlights AI concentration risks as RBI-regulated banks and NBFCs increasingly depend on US-based LLMs for critical operations.

If the Market Isn’t ‘Pricing In Promise’ for AI Stocks Anymore—What’s Next for Tech?

If the Market Isn’t ‘Pricing In Promise’ for AI Stocks Anymore—What’s Next for Tech?

AI Power Without Responsibility

Argentina is registering companies run solely by artificial intelligence, with a human kept around only to answer legal claims. There's a huge danger in this gee-whiz tech

A Potentially Terrible AI Economic Dilemma

Austerity for the non-AI economy?