Americans are using AI more but still don’t trust it, Quinnipiac poll finds
Quinnipiac’s March 2026 poll found 21% trust AI-generated information most or almost all of the time, largely unchanged from April 2025.
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Court blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklisting, finds Trump administration’s ‘kill…
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$850M in total funding: How South Korean chipmaker Rebellions is positioning…
South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions has reportedly raised $400 million in pre-IPO funding, bringing its total capital raised to approximately $850 million and its valuation to around $2.34 billion.
Longevity startup R3 Bio discussed human ‘body replacement’ cloning, MIT…
MIT Technology Review reports that longevity startup R3 Bio discussed body-replacement cloning. The company says the allegations are categorically false.
The scarcity filter: how growing up poor installs decision-making architecture…
Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, spent years studying what happens to cognition under resource pressure.
India’s UPI now handles about 730 million payments a day, and its design is the…
UPI’s growth highlights a different payment model, but published counts do not establish that it processes more transactions than Visa and Mastercard combined.
The UAE just signed AI deals with both Washington and Beijing in the same week.…
The UAE signed AI cooperation agreements with both American and Chinese partners in the same week, and neither Washington nor Beijing objected. The silence is more revealing than any diplomatic statement — it exposes the structural limits of the AI decoupling narrative and the leverage that dual-alignment states now hold over both superpowers.
The FBI confirmed it buys location data, showing that surveillance risks extend…
The Guardian's investigation into FBI mass surveillance capabilities reveals an uncomfortable truth: the most effective surveillance infrastructure doesn't require AI — it's already built from commercial data purchases, interagency sharing agreements, and legal grey zones that predate the current AI panic.
AI companies are hiring chemical weapons experts for safety — while embedded in…
Anthropic, the AI company that has built its brand on safety-first principles, is hiring a chemical weapons and high-yield explosives expert to prevent what it calls "catastrophic misuse" of its AI software.
Nigeria powers Africa’s $3.1B creator economy — but platform economics ensure…
Africa's creator economy is experiencing significant growth, with Nigeria sitting at the centre of that expansion.
Meta later confirmed about 8,000 layoffs as it shifted spending toward AI
Update: Meta subsequently confirmed plans to cut about 8,000 jobs, or roughly 10 percent of its workforce.
US regulators approved construction of TerraPower’s sodium-cooled reactor in March…
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Unit 1 on 9 March 2026. A separate licence will be required before the reactor can operate.