Meta has patented a wearable device that continuously records audio and uses AI to infer the wearer's emotional state from vocal cues like sighs and laughter, with the stated purpose of refining worko…
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping creators' content without permission, compensation, or credit. CEO Jack Conte announced the network-level protection on al…
Meta has filed a patent for an AI-powered wearable device that tracks users' emotional states by analyzing sighs, laughter, and voice tones, and can monitor medication intake. The device aims to provi…
A new study by AI detection company Pangram found that up to 41% of longform posts on LinkedIn and roughly a third on X are likely AI-generated, based on data from its Chrome extension. The research, …
Wealthy parents are enrolling their children in Alpha School, a private network charging $75,000 a year for AI-based tutoring, despite having access to top traditional education. The school, promoted …
A security researcher discovered that Apple's Hide My Email service has a vulnerability that exposes users' real email addresses, affecting 100% of tested addresses. The flaw was reported to Apple in …
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. United States that the Fourth Amendment protects people's location data, affirming that even short-term surveillance of physical movements constitutes a sear…
Companies including Atlassian, Adobe, and Amazon are throttling employee AI use and switching to cheaper models to control spiraling costs, with one firm's AI spending tripling to over $15 million mon…
Companies are scrambling to reduce AI spending as providers shift to per-token pricing, with some using tools to make LLMs communicate like cavemen. Meanwhile, entirely fake AI-generated flowers are f…
Music streaming service Tidal announced it will not pay royalties for wholly AI-generated music, stating its priority is ensuring royalties go to original works produced by people. The company will la…
Companies are manufacturing Reddit threads to manipulate AI citations, exploiting the platform's heavy use by AI models for answers. This tactic, known as answer engine optimization, involves aged acc…
Flock Safety's surveillance cameras, including AI-powered license plate readers and audio-detection poles, are rapidly spreading across the US, logging every car and enabling law enforcement to search…
Employees at fintech firm Slash and consulting giant Accenture are burning through expensive AI tokens on trivial tasks like creating a meme-themed video game and converting PDFs to PowerPoints, expos…
Google's June 2026 spam update now targets attempts to manipulate generative AI responses in Search, but enforcement is challenging because planted text on user-generated pages is difficult to disting…
Hugging Face hosts tools designed to generate deepfake nude images of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress, and other senior US political figures, violating the platform's own …
Companies like Accenture are tightening AI access after employees burned tokens on non-essential tasks like converting PDFs to slides, driving soaring costs. The shift from free to usage-based pricing…
Accenture is attempting to stop employees from depleting AI token reserves by using AI for basic tasks like converting PDFs to slides, according to leaked audio from an internal meeting. The consultin…
Snap debuted its augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, offering a tightly curated museum experience where users can overlay AI-filtered versions of themselve…
A new paper argues that if large language models are considered sentient, then by the same metrics the classic video game Age of Empires II should also be considered sentient. The discussion was featu…
Microsoft AI researcher Adrian de Wynter built a basic neural network inside the video game 'Age of Empires II' using digital goats to argue that claims of human-like attributes in large language mode…