Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in the eastern city of Hangzhou ruled against a tech company that had fired one of its workers after he refused to accept a demotion and pay cut. The worker had been employed by a fintech firm to evaluate the accuracy of answers generated by AI models. Experts warn that the lack of a unified legislative framework is hampering efforts to tackle the problem.
Bernie Sanders proposes to create a US sovereign wealth fund by taking 50% stock in AI companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI. His book, Rewiring Democracy, surveys the emerging uses for and impacts of AI in democracy around the world. The most urgent risk posed by AI is the concentration of power, wealth and control among tech oligarchs. Public ownership of these companies entangles corporate profit and valuation with the public interest.
Artificial intelligence technology can provide an early warning for breast cancer up to six years before a diagnosis. Swedish researchers tested three commercially available AI-based computer-assisted detection (AI-CAD) radiology systems on the mammogram data. It achieved 90% “specificity” (able to distinguish between a true positive and a true negative result) in nearly 20% of participants 6 years before their recorded diagnosis, up to 25% 4 years before diagnosis and up to nearly 40% 2 years before the diagnosis.
This week in AI there was a frontier model launch, a consumer assistant reboot, the largest IPO in history, and a $12 billion bet on physical engineering. Next week in The Sequence we will continue our series about alternative to transformers and discuss AI tokens as units of economics.
An executive at a big American tech company talks about an emerging problem for businesses that use artificial intelligence. AI agents use a lot of processing power and have started to run up huge bills. Big companies typically use hundreds of software programs. If each of those offers AI agents, costs could spiral out of control.
Anthropic has suspended access to its newest AI models for all foreign nationals. The move has reignited a long-running debate in India about dependence on technologies developed and governed in the U.S. Anthropic and OpenAI have both described India as their second-largest market after the United States. Opendoor shut its India office less than two years after expanding in the country.
The German Lawyers’ Day 2026 took place in Freiburg. It was organized by the German Lawyers' Association (DAV). AI providers and large hyperscalers are responsible for the change in the legal profession. Small and medium-sized law firms could benefit more from the AI transition than many assume.
OpenAI and Anthropic are in an all-out war for AI market share. OpenAI wants to go public as early as September, but Anthropic filed a confidential filing with U.S. regulators on June 1st. The companies are at odds over revenue recognition and how each tells its financial story to investors.