Meta has been granted a patent for an AI system that continuously records a user's voice, transcribes it, and analyzes it with a machine learning model to detect emotional state, combining audio with …
X's Grok AI translation feature is generating hardcore pornographic hallucinations from innocent posts, as documented by writer Parker Molloy on Bluesky. The feature, rolled out in April, has translat…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X as an automatic translation feature, is generating profanity-laced and sexually explicit mistranslations of innocent posts, such as translating a video o…
The new logo for President Donald J. Trump International Airport, formerly Palm Beach International Airport, appears to be generated by AI, featuring crooked stars and other sloppy details, as noted b…
A KPMG survey of 2,145 senior executives across 20 countries found that 29% do not know what is driving their organizations' rising AI expenses, and one-third say limited understanding of AI economics…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano alleges that 40 of 86 students in his ECON 1170 class cheated on a take-home midterm using ChatGPT, after scores averaged 96%. Following an in-pers…
A KPMG survey of 2,145 senior executives across 20 countries found that 29% are unaware of the source of rising AI costs, and a third cite their own lack of AI economics knowledge as a barrier to depl…
A three-engineer shop called Slopfix is charging $10,000 per week to shrink AI-generated codebases, committing to a reduction target and billing proportionally. The service signals that technical debt…
Workers are increasingly using AI to communicate with each other, leading to absurd situations where AI-generated messages are sent back and forth between colleagues. One employee told Fortune she bel…
US stocks are now priced 41 times their average decade earnings, surpassing the 32.5 ratio that preceded the Great Depression, according to economist Russ Mould. The overvaluation is driven by AI hype…
An anonymous CEO threatened to fire any employee who sends unedited AI-generated emails, while another tech CEO imposed a complete company-wide ban on AI, according to consultant Joe Procopio. The bac…
A growing number of corporate managers are using AI tools like ChatGPT to make career-altering decisions, including promotions, raises, and layoffs, often without formal training. Employees report tha…
A lawyer at a legal tech startup quit because her boss became obsessed with AI, using ChatGPT to make all company decisions including hiring and firing, and mandating employees consult the AI before a…
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…
DuckDuckGo's AI-powered search results falsely claimed President Donald Trump died of rabies after contracting the infection from Vice President J.D. Vance, who also died of rabies. The misinformation…
A new Pew Research poll reveals that only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society, while 49% use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024. Gen Z adults are the most wary yet highest…
Companies that heavily adopted generative AI are suffering from "knowledge decay," where over-reliance on AI leads to low-quality work, eroded trust, and deteriorating organizational knowledge. The Ha…
Google's AI Overview is treating fictional entities from the SCP Foundation horror wiki as real, with no disclaimers. The AI's pattern-matching mistakes the wiki's deadpan bureaucratic style for factu…
Google's AI Overviews are presenting entries from the SCP Foundation, a collaborative horror fan-fiction project, as factual information. The AI fails to note that the content is fictional, despite cl…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered the 2026 commencement address at Stanford University on June 14, 2026, without explicitly mentioning artificial intelligence, according to Business Insider. The spee…