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Iowa signs a law requiring AI chatbots to tell minors they’re not human — and to remind them every 3 hours

Connecticut passes one of the nation’s most comprehensive AI bills while Iowa signs a chatbot safety law into effect

76% of companies now have a chief AI officer — up from 26% last year — as CEOs restructure leadership for AI-first transformation

AI usage climbs to 17.8% of the world’s working-age population — up 1.5 points in a single quarter

Anthropic could raise $50 billion at a $900 billion valuation — surpassing OpenAI’s $852 billion and eyeing an October IPO

Pentagon wants AI-powered turrets on military vehicles that can detect and track drones faster than any human gunner

Google, Microsoft, and xAI will now let the government test their AI models before the public sees them

Pentagon wants AI to aim its drone-killing turrets — with a human still on the trigger

Anthropic just passed OpenAI in revenue at $30 billion — growing 30x in 15 months while exploring a $900 billion valuation

US AI adoption climbed from 24th to 21st globally with 31.3% of working-age Americans now using AI tools — the UAE leads at 70.1%

Human scientists still trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks, a Nature study finds — despite billions spent on autonomous research tools

US and China plan regular meetings to discuss AI risks including unexpected model behavior, autonomous weapons, and non-state actor attacks

US and China are exploring official AI talks ahead of the Trump-Xi summit on May 14 — including risks from autonomous weapons and open-source attacks

Google DeepMind acquires a stake in the studio behind EVE Online and will use the space MMO as a testing ground for AI models

Microsoft publishes its global AI diffusion report — AI usage rose to 17.8% of the world’s working-age population in Q1 2026

OpenAI, AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft, and Broadcom release an open protocol to stop GPU clusters from crashing during large-scale AI training

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