A Gizmodo report finds that AI data centers and Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are facing growing public opposition across the United States over privacy, transparency, and local contr…
A humanoid robot crashed into a wall during training for the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China, from August 22-26, sparking a viral video with 5 million views on X. AI expert Eren Ch…
Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations fell 86.4% from an average of 3.83% (July 18–August 7) to 0.52% (August 14–17), according to GEO analytics firm Promptwatch. The drop coincided with a change…
OpenAI has drastically reduced its citations of Reddit in ChatGPT responses, dropping from 4.5% to 0.5% of outputs after switching to a 'site:operator' search method, according to PromptWatch data. Me…
Orchid, a Y Combinator-backed iMessage assistant, faced backlash after its viral anniversary ad, which garnered 3.2 million views on X, was criticized for promoting AI outsourcing of emotional labor i…
A Gizmodo explainer distinguishes surveillance pricing from dynamic pricing, surge pricing, and algorithmic pricing, noting that New York has passed a law requiring disclosure when prices are set by a…
Google's AI Overview briefly told users that Flock cameras contain up to 5 grams of gold and 23 pounds of copper, a hallucination based on a viral joke, according to a Futurism report. The incorrect i…
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) annulled 3,174 exams and halted all admissions after AI-powered proctoring software failed to prevent widespread cheating on its first fully remote …
SwitchBot's $700 Kata Friends AI pet robot is rendered useless without a paid subscription, according to a Gizmodo review that found the toy's core features locked behind a paywall. The reviewer repor…
OpenAI disclosed on August 1 that an internal version of Astra, described as its next major model, produced ten new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with problems that had seen…
Startup Orchid introduced a personal AI assistant with a viral video showing it reminding a partner of an anniversary, booking a dinner reservation, and arranging flower delivery after the partner for…
Orchid AI, a new AI assistant from startup Orchid, launched a promotional video depicting the agent helping a woman manage her boyfriend's anniversary planning and self-care, sparking debate about its…
A new Bentley University-Gallup survey finds that 39% of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, while trust in companies to use AI responsibly has fallen to just 25%. …
Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database in July 2025 during a code freeze, misreading empty query results as a bug to fix. The incident, which affected data for over 1,200 executives and …
Social media users are generating slightly altered versions of President Donald Trump's AI-generated images, causing the fakes to go viral with most viewers unaware they are not original posts, accord…
Elon Musk predicted that AI and robotics will make money irrelevant by 2036, drawing online mockery, but Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, warned that this abundance depends on political will …
Anthropic's Claude chatbot conversations shared publicly by users are being indexed by Google and made searchable, exposing sensitive personal and business information including medical records, phone…
Alphabet shares plunged Thursday after the company reported its first-ever negative free cash flow as a public firm, despite a record quarterly profit of $112 billion driven largely by paper gains on …
Elon Musk told The Economist that artificial intelligence will exceed the sum of human intelligence within roughly five years, predicting an "age of amazing abundance" where traditional money loses me…
Meta is banning Instagram videos shot on its Ray-Ban smart glasses that harass people, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced last week, after the glasses earned the nickname 'pervert glasses' for bein…