Senators Warren and Schiff are urging the SEC to investigate Trump Media's paid post feed

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff called the service an "outrageous abuse" of the presidency that could give Wall Street an unfair trading edge [...]

LinkedIn now has a ‘Seems like AI slop’ button, and yes, it really says slop

LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” option to [...]

AI labels become compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s landmark AI Act moves from principle into enforcement. From 2 August, providers [...]

Microsoft tells employees to stop tokenmaxxing, sets division-level AI budgets

Microsoft executive vice president Jay Parikh has told employees in an internal email that the company needs to rein in its AI token consumption, writing that “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimi [...]

Trump Media posted a $238 million loss as falling crypto prices battered its Bitcoin holdings

The Truth Social parent recorded $360.6 million in losses on digital assets in the first half of 2026 as Bitcoin prices declined [...]

SK Hynix will buy back $28.6bn of its own shares, the biggest repurchase in Korean corporate history

SK Hynix will buy back 40 trillion won of its own stock, about $28.6bn at prevailing exchange rates, in what Korean media are calling the largest repurchase ever announced by a listed company in the [...]

The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers

The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tan [...]

South Korea’s regulator says Meta’s teen limits should apply everywhere, not just America

South Korea’s media regulator has said that Meta’s new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide rather than only in the markets that forced them, which is a modest-sounding state [...]

ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase [...]