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Trump Appoints Former Attorney General Pam Bondi in AI Advisory Panel

Pam Bondi's appointment in the PCAST comes a month after she was fired from her post as attorney general by Trump.

Bondi’s appointment in the CSAT comes barely a month after she was unceremoniously fired by Trump as Attorney General.

Huawei says New Chip Design Law Can Ease AI Compute Constraints

Huawei said Kirin chips due in fall 2026 will be the first to use its LogicFolding architecture.

Huawei said Kirin chips due in fall 2026 will be the first to use its LogicFolding architecture. It also claimed its Tau Scaling based high-end chips could reach transistor density comparable to 1.4 nm processes by 2031.

NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track Puts ‘Agency’ at the Centre

The NeurIPS 2026 annual conference will be held in Sydney, Australia from December 6-12.

The Creative AI Track at NeurIPS 2026 is calling for artworks and papers that examine how agency emerges, is shared, contested or constrained when humans and AI systems make things together.

EU’s Google Fine May Decide Who Controls AI Search in Europe

European Union is all set to impose its biggest penalty on Google under the digital markets act.

European Union’s reported fine against Google is formally about search self-preferencing. However, the larger fight is over whether Google can carry its search dominance into AI search as Gemini and AI-generated answers become part of how users find information online. The case also shows that while Europe may be slowing parts of the AI Act rollout, it is still willing to use competition law against Big Tech gatekeepers.

At Bard, Fareed Zakaria Read the Room: “Let’s Talk About HI, Not AI”

Author-journalist Fareed Zakaria delivering the commencement address at Bard College, New York, on May 23, 2026. (Photo: Bard College / Screengrab)

As U.S. college graduates increasingly boo speakers who invoke AI, journalist Fareed Zakaria flipped the script at Bard College, opening his commencement address with a pitch for HI, Human Intelligence, instead.

Over a Third US Students Use Gen AI, 9.3% Admit Cheating: Study

A new SERU Consortium study of more than 95,000 US undergraduates finds that 37.1% use generative AI tools almost monthly, with a notable gender gap in frequency of use. (Representational image)

According to the study 37.1 percent of students reported using generative AI tools almost monthly while 9.3 percent admitted to using it for cheating.

Pope Leo XIV to Release AI Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, To be Joined by Anthropic Co-founder

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah (left) will join Pope Leo XIV (right) at the Vatican presentation of the encyclical Magnifica humanitas on May 25.

The release follows the Vatican’s approval of a new AI commission tasked with studying the technology’s impact on humanity and shaping its use within the Holy See.

Google DeepMind Says Their AI System Helped Solve Nine ‘Open Erdős Problems’

Google DeepMind said its AI agent autonomously solved nine open problems associated with Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. (Image: DeepMind / Wikimedia Commons)

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus agent autonomously solved nine open problems associated with Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős — two of them open for 56 years. The announcement, days after OpenAI claimed to have disproved an Erdős conjecture from 1946, signals a shift in how AI labs are testing mathematical reasoning.

Trump Pulls Back on AI Executive Order After Pressure from Sacks and Industry

US President Donald Trump postponed signing an executive order on artificial intelligence on Thursday, May 21, after last-minute lobbying from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and former White House AI adviser, David Sacks

The executive order would have required AI companies to share first-tier models with the Federal government at least 90 days before public release under a voluntary framework.

Mumbai Gets 15,000 New AI Eyes as Mega CCTV Expansion Begins

Mumbai city will get 15,000 additional cctv cameras with artificial intelligence capabilities

The CCTVs as part of state government’s modernization in policing efforts, will have artificial intelligence capabilities.