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Published on June 26, 2026 9:54 PM GMT   Bullet point summary: Cultivated meat could have a price between $15/kg and $30/kg according to reputable technoeconomic analysis, which we review and explain. We present an interactive demand-side economic model where we translate that price to market share: https://pabloamc.github.io/Cultivated_meat/interactive.html Some species, like pork and especially chicken, are tough to replace with cultivated meat. Others, like cows and seafood, are more sig

Passed and signed with little warning, New Jersey's new law mandates unprecedented registration fees for data brokers and data collectors.

Introspection co-founder Roland Gavrilescu explains autoresearch, agent “recipes,” self-improving loops, and why humans remain central to the software factory.

Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Honk Kong MTR's business model

Yesterday, EPIC filed comments in response to the California Department of Justice’s proposed rules to implement the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976). EPIC commended California for the proposed rules, which align strongly with the privacy- and speech-protective principles for age assurance implementation that EPIC urged the state to follow in a comment submitted last year. In this latest round of comments, EPIC recommended additional tweaks to further enhance privacy

CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert insight in an article published by WIRED. The article examines the launch of FLARE-AI, a new crowdsourced platform designed to improve transparency and accountability by creating a centralized system for reporting harmful AI behavior and model flaws. The post You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.

The post Building AI Systems That Work For Everyone appeared first on Partnership on AI .

Last night, the New Jersey Legislature passed the Fair Price Protection Act, a law banning surveillance pricing for groceries.

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.

Amazon is developing precise, sector-specific approaches to measuring decarbonization progress — starting with emissions per unit shipped.

Tim Scarfe travels to Zurich to sit down with the Tufa Labs ARC-AGI-3 team — founder Benjamin Crouzier, with Jeroen Cottaar, Dries Smit, Stefano Viel and Michal Tesnar — to work out what their leaderboard-topping system does and what the benchmark is really testing.The cut opens on the games: a walkthrough of the Locksmith game, where you read the rules of an unfamiliar world straight from raw frames. ARC-AGI-3 makes ARC interactive and agentic, so the model has to *discover* the goal rather tha

Why the Llama lead left Meta for drug discovery, PEARL's zero-shot OpenBind win, and what becomes possible when co-folding finally crosses the accuracy threshold.

NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure needed for better healthcare, breakthrough scientific discovery, stronger industrial productivity and global technology leadership.

The Political Economy of Energy Poverty

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their work spans the breadth of modern AI — robotics and embodied intelligence, large language models and reasoning, computer vision, generative modeling, AI safety, human-AI interaction, AI for science and healthcare

On Tuesday at the AI Engineer World's Fair, there was a lot of talk about loops, agent engineering, and the emergence of software factories. Also a hot topic: open models.

Today, the New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Kids Code Act, which prohibits online companies from engaging in data and design practices that harm minors online. The bill now advances to the desk of Gov. Mikie Sherrill. EPIC applauds lawmakers’ passage of this crucial piece of legislation, which features several provisions from the model Age-Appropriate Design … Continued

Washington, D.C. — Today, the New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Kids Code ActNew Jersey Kids Code Act, which prohibits online companies from engaging in data and design practices that harm minors online. The bill now advances to the desk of Gov. Mikie Sherrill. EPIC applauds lawmakers’ passage of this crucial piece of legislation, which features … Continued

Listen now | 0:00 Grandpa Bob and author Bob 3:30 Why Bob stopped being an AI doom skeptic 6:59 Can AI solve China’s demographic crisis? 14:09 The irony of China’s open-source AI strategy 17:12 Recursive self-improvement and the singularity 23:33 The Burkean conservative case against AI 38:00 Are we becoming AI meat puppets? 46:32 Google Maps, AI, and the death of interhuman reliance 51:24 Was Pete Hegseth’s military strategy written by a chatbot? 56:45 Trump and Iran: Peace? Wider war? Other? 1

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by CNBC. The article examines U.S. AI restrictions and China’s rapid progress in closing the gap with leading American models. The post Trump administration’s AI crackdown opens door for China to close gap appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in a newsletter segment published by Politico. The article examines the evolving U.S.–China AI competition, focusing on how cost-efficient Chinese AI models are beginning to gain traction globally and what that could mean for the long-term balance of technological and economic power in artificial intelligence. The post When cheap AI becomes a secret weapon appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

On Friday, June 26, EPIC filed an amicus brief alongside civil liberties and criminal defense organizations in New York v. Morris, an important case about cell phone privacy rights during criminal investigations. The brief was filed with the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, the Center for … Continued

Announcing: AI StopWatch In our last update, we mentioned we had something new in the works: a dedicated channel for news and analysis about AI. Subscribe to AI StopWatch An experiment from the writers and analysts at MIRI, AI StopWatch posts news and commentary seven days a week. You can read our commentary as it’s […] The post MIRI Newsletter #126 appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute .

The European Commission wants to treat cloud computing as a gatekeeper market. That is the wrong diagnosis, and it would lead to the wrong cure. The Commission’s preliminary view that Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be designated as Digital Markets Act (DMA) gatekeepers for cloud-computing services is more than another skirmish in ... Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Problem The post Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Probl

Washington DC – Today, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced the addition of four new members to its Advisory Board. Since its establishment, EPIC’s work has been informed by the expertise of leading scholars, experts, and advocates in the fields of privacy, technology policy, and digital rights. We are excited to see the expansion of … Continued

Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, microservices and domain-specific tools — to help researchers run more sophisticated workflows and iterate faster. This week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, an AI workbench for science […]

When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering required before a robot can leave a demo floor to do something useful. As a robotics software engineer who leads the team behind […]

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held annually for over forty years, is among the most influential conferences in modern AI research. This year in Seoul, ICML is hosting its second workshop on Technical AI Governance Research (TAIGR), and several members of MIRI’s Technical Governance Team (TGT) will attend in July. This post summarizes […] The post Summary: TGT’s 2026 ICML Papers appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute .

At New America, our work spans across five issue areas—each essential to building a nation and a world where everyone can thrive. What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National ...

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. Vision AI agents are becoming a practical way to automatically turn video data from the physical world into operational intelligence in factories, […]

New OECD analysis reveals how people use GenAI chatbots across countries and demographics, using web traffic data from Similarweb. The post How people are using GenAI chatbots: Evidence from web traffic data appeared first on OECD.AI .

Since the Leveson Report was published in 2012, exposing a collapse in ethical standards across the press, most national newspapers have adopted a similar stance: objection to the very principle of accountability. They believe that while social media, broadcast media and every other industry should be regulated, they alone should be permitted to operate and […]

Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered technologies.

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court struck a major blow against American consumers on Monday, rewriting constitutional law to bring the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies directly under the President’s thumb and threatening their ability to protect the public from harmful business and data practices.

The Supreme Court ruled today that geofence searches violate a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

The Supreme Court ruled today that geofence searches violate a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511 , which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. This well-intentioned but deeply flawed piece of legislation will harm young people who rely on the internet to access essential information and find community. That’s why we’re urging the Illinois governor to veto the measure. Under this new regime, digital platforms are forced to collect and s