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A newly published study estimates that Republican fundraisers lost $117 million last year after email providers, chiefly Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, inappropriately flagged GOP fundraising messages as spam while allowing Democrat fundraising emails through.

Nvidia announced its new Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday with 100 industry partners, aiming to help AI developers stop their autonomous agents from escaping the systems meant to contain them, representing an industry solution to a problem that has OpenAI and Anthropic begging for government regulation.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said we “need law enforcement and the politicians” to get into the discussion about safeguards and monitoring for artificial intelligence.

Personal AI agents that can act on a user’s behalf online are starting to reach the public, and some early adaopters say their agents have already read their private accounts without permission, invented details out of thin air, or triggered alarming security prompts.

Stanford University has apologized for using AI to swap out a Hispanic male student for a black female in a promotional photo, calling the decision a “serious error in judgment.” The university didn’t stop at transforming a student’s race and gender to promote “diversity” — it also made both a white male student and an asian female student noticeably slimmer in the image.

Louisiana Congressional candidate Stephen Wagley said that voters’ concerns about AI data center development are “very valid” and added that officials owe them transparency.

Google is preparing to launch a satellite carrying its AI chips into orbit, part of an early test of whether space could someday host AI data centers.

Major social media companies including Meta, YouTube, X, and TikTok are reportedly refusing to accept paid advertisements for Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, raising concerns that the Masters of the Universe are closing ranks to protect one of their own.

Bill Gates, the tech evangelist and leftist billionaire who has suddenly changed his tune to focus on the dangers of AI, told NBC’s Meet the Press that artificial intelligence could kill on a scale never before possible.

Oracle Corp. has sent a force majeure notice to a unit of Blue Owl Capital over Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center at the center of the Stargate AI build-out. This contractual clause is invoked when a company believes that unavoidable events will delay completion of the work, which seems to be Oracle’s opinion of its troubled data center project.

Disney is moving forward with its plans to up its technology game by hiring India-born Karandeep Anand as the company’s first chief technology officer.

President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at a White House state dinner Thursday, joined by the Masters of the AI Universe. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei was notably missing from the guest list that features Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk amongst others.

Disney is blocking Senate Leadership Fund’s ads highlighting Democrats’ pro-trans agenda and soft-on-crime policies to the majority of their audience, according to documentation reviewed by Breitbart News, effectively preventing the group’s political ads from reaching viewers on multiple streaming platforms.

Intelligence investigating fire at a Starlink base that is crucial to providing internet coverage to central Europe and Ukraine.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Sarasota teacher Liz Ballard “harassed, disparaged, and deliberately tried to cancel an eighth-grade student for his conservative views.” The AG blasted the teacher in a letter to the Satasota school district.

The AI boom is on track to become the largest single-industry infrastructure buildout in more than a century, according to new estimates published by the Brookings Institution.

Reaching all the way back to the 1980s, Jeffrey Katzenberg was a giant in the world of feature animation movies for more than 30 years. His biography is like no one other than Walt Disney and includes such timeless classics as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King, and the Shrek and Kung Fu Panda franchises.

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government statistics website in June, in what is believed to be the first known incident of its kind anywhere in the world.

Dario Amodei’s Anthropic says its Claude AI model “autonomously discovered” a new enzyme system resembling the molecular machinery behind CRISPR gene editing, the first result to come out of the company’s newly launched wet lab.

HSBC downgraded Netflix stock from a buy to a hold this week, citing troubling trends in user engagement and YouTube’s rising influence on television viewing.

Disney has announced that it is raising is prices for its ad-free streaming service Disney+ once again, effective immediately.

A24 has released an official trailer for the new documentary You Can See Everything.

Prince Harry was forced off the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on Wednesday about seven minutes into a speech warning about artificial intelligence, after the teleprompter carrying his remarks failed.

Incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-TX) campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee are facing criticism from Republican candidate Tano Tijerina’s campaign over a new advertisement, which Tijerina’s campaign says misrepresents his comments and makes a false claim about a proposed data center tied to his wife’s family.

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay is reportedly back at the Ivy League school nearly three years after stepping down in disgrace due to plagiarism accusations . This time, Gay will teach a course about Harvard itself.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” a simmering, midtempo, country-and-then-some heartbreak song released last October, is indisputably 2026’s biggest hit.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), an elite medical school, illegally discriminated against white and Asian applicants according to the DOJ. As a result, millions of dollars in federal funds could be at risk.

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee and applicant, and defaced the bureau’s jobs website to prove it. The hackers claim to have breached the FBI by exploiting Oracle’s Peoplesoft platform.

Federal prosecutors accused executives of the Chinese tech giant Huawei of participating in a massive crime spree as the company’s unprecedented criminal trial in New York kicked off.

Elon Musk praised China’s genocidal dictator Xi Jinping as a “great leader” in an interview broadcast Wednesday on Chinese state television network CCTV. Musk pointed to the “increased prosperity of the average Chinese citizen” as a sign of Xi’s skill as a leader.

CNBC’s Phil LeBeau spent more than three hours riding in an autonomous semi truck through Texas, watching the vehicle navigate highway traffic with nobody behind the wheel. Some experts believe 3.5 million truck driving jobs will be at risk if the technoloy is widely adopted over the next few years.

Content creator Frankie Lapenna fought three robots in a series of cage matches organized by REK, a company that puts on fights between remote-controlled machines.