Leaked planning documents obtained by Bloomberg describe a Russian state-linked operation called "Project 2026," run by the Social Design Agency (SDA), with the stated goal of seeding the information layer that AI chatbots and search engines …
A sworn declaration from the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer confirms a federal-only build, Grok Gov, was wired into US targeting systems during operations against Iran, helping deploy more than 2,000 munitions against 2,000 distinct target…
Kapwing set up fresh TikTok accounts and found 59% of the videos served to them were AI slop, synthetic visuals or low-effort AI voiceover compilations. That's about three times what they saw on YouTube Shorts. Kids' content was worst: 57% over…
Visa's Instant Checkout was retired in March after merchant fee problems; the ChatGPT integration rebuilds commerce on Visa's existing card-acceptance rails, removing the per-merchant fee barrier. Visa's press release names three infrastru…
The CMA's conduct requirement under the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act is the first binding law to separate content display rights from AI training data rights at domain and page level, covering Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemi…
Demis Hassabis has tightened his AGI timeline to 2029, making him the most aggressive sitting frontier-lab CEO on record with a public forecast. In an Axios interview, Hassabis named one or two remaining technical breakthroughs DeepMind needs to clear …
Gartner's 2026 consumer panel finds half of US adults would actively prefer brands that don't use generative AI. Half. A February 2026 NBER paper finds 90% of surveyed firms report zero productivity impact from AI deployments. An MIT GenAI stud…
This piece lays out a pretty dark cycle that goes way beyond "fake videos." AI companies are running a feedback loop where their tools destroy public trust in reality, and then they use that collapse to sell AI governance as the "objecti…
This week: the billionaires who broke the economy want to pay you to shut up about it. Last week, Elon Musk pinned a post to the top of his X profile: "Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with …
CNBC · April 1, 2026 xAI's Grok chatbot has been granted advisory access to STRATCOM systems after Musk convinced the Pentagon that "an AI with a sense of humor is exactly what nuclear deterrence needs." When asked about the risks, Grok r…
