Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have sparked renewed privacy concerns due to their concealed cameras, which allow users to record people without consent, echoing the company's long-standing pattern of pr…
History professor Jason Gibson caught 32 of 35 students using AI-generated answers on a midterm after hiding the word 'Madagascar' in the instructions, leading to nonsensical responses such as 'Madaga…
AI companies are buying and destroying physical books at massive scale to train large language models, with one database company, ISBNdb, now facilitating bulk purchases of 1,000 to one million books …
Linux creator Linus Torvalds declared Linux is not anti-AI, prompting a rallying cry from anti-AI projects. European code forge Codeberg changed its terms to ban projects mostly written by generative …
Progressive Conservative MLA Bill Oliver read an AI chatbot's rewriting instruction aloud in the New Brunswick legislature on July 24, 2026, inadvertently reciting the prompt wrapper 'Here's a more na…
Plastic surgeons report a surge in patients requesting AI-generated versions of their own faces, which often feature flawless symmetry and proportions that are physically unattainable through surgery.…
A Nikkei study reveals hidden debt at U.S. tech giants swelled eightfold in four years to an estimated $1.65 trillion as artificial intelligence investments ballooned, exceeding the roughly $1.35 tril…
OpenAI's projected ad revenue by 2030 is $100 billion annually, but a new analysis from Emarketer suggests the company is on pace to undershoot that by 90%, with the entire chatbot advertising market …
Nearly half of U.S. teens aged 13 to 17 have seen AI-generated sexual content, with 8% creating it themselves, according to a new nationally representative survey from the nonprofit Common Sense Media…
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…