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QuartzNearly one in five working-age adults worldwide used generative AI in June 2026, according to Microsoft data, with global adoption reaching 18.8%, up about one percentage point from the first quarter. The United Arab Emirates led usage at 73.3%

WNYTNew York is implementing its Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, requiring large frontier AI developers to register with the state and meet transparency, safety, and reporting requirements. Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, companies must

CNNNvidia is partnering with major Wall Street investors to mobilize more than $500 billion in financing for AI infrastructure, aiming to make computing capacity an investable asset class. The initiative, involving Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone

CNetNASA and IBM have launched the Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI model designed to support future lunar exploration under NASA’s Artemis program. Available through Hugging Face, the model was trained on decades of lunar observation data

The Japan TimesJapan will require driver monitoring systems in all new car models sold domestically from September 2031, with existing models subject to the requirement from 2033. The systems will use cameras and sensors to detect driver distraction

NIST NewsThe U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $1.7 million to organizations in eight states to address the cybersecurity workforce shortage. Administered through NIST’s NICE program, the grants support

Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesAn AI-powered smartphone app developed by engineers at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences helps people who are blind or have

Yahoo! FinanceNew Mexico has asked a judge to order Meta Platforms to pay $35 billion to $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about Facebook’s data privacy practices. The case stems from the Cambridge Analytica

HPCwireThe U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched the Open Knowledge Network, a public infrastructure connecting 43 knowledge graphs and tens of billions of facts across areas including health, environmental science, justice

The Hacker NewsSecurity researchers at Israeli software company Cycode found critical flaws in NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s AIT-GUI software that could allow unauthenticated attackers to issue arbitrary commands to spacecraft and instruments. The