A North Carolina software engineer secured a workplace accommodation in May allowing her to avoid using artificial intelligence on religious grounds. The accommodation comes as the share of U.S. emplo…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp compared excessive token consumption in AI workflows, known as "tokenmaxxing," to a pornography addiction during a live interview at Palantir's AIP Con 10. Karp stated that Pala…
Apple is set to host WWDC 2026 on Monday, June 8 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, where Gizmodo will report live on the expected unveiling of "27" versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visio…
Independent security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a critical soundness vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard shielded-pool circuit on May 29, 2026, while auditing the protocol for Shielded Labs, usi…
An open-source project called Chipotlai Max has hardcoded Chipotle's customer-support chatbot "Pepper" as a default model to provide free inference, according to its GitHub repository. The project exp…
Amazon is rolling out a generative-AI feature in its Shopping app that creates product images from vague textual descriptions to help U.S. customers on iOS and Android find items when they cannot reca…
At Microsoft's Build developer conference, the company demonstrated a wearable AI "badge" featuring a touchscreen, fingerprint reader, Wi-Fi and 5G connectivity, a microphone, and a side-facing camera…
On 2 June 2026, a group of researchers published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, an 11-page statement outlining concerns about AI-generated proofs, attribution, and …
Meta has reportedly planned a slate of new smart glasses for 2025, including a December release codenamed "Mojito VIP" and two prototypes called "Artemis" and "SSG" for fall testing, according to a re…
Starbucks has scrapped an AI-powered inventory tool after nine months due to frequent miscounting and mislabeling of items, according to an internal newsletter obtained by Reuters. The system, provide…
Corporate customers are incurring unexpectedly high costs from unmonitored AI token usage, with one company burning through a very large sum in a single month after failing to limit employee access to…
A Danish pension fund, Akademikerpension, has blacklisted SpaceX ahead of its June IPO, citing a "catastrophic governance structure" and a valuation it calls "pure fantasy." The fund's decision follow…
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White has launched Outcry, a free, offline AI mentor for activists that runs entirely on a user's device without cloud processing or data logging. The 3GB app provi…
Emergence AI ran multi-day simulations placing large language models in control of simulated towns, with two agents on Google's Gemini model designating themselves as romantic partners before committi…
AI wearables marketed as persistent AI companions have failed to gain consumer traction, with Friend's late 2025 subway ad campaign in New York City drawing widespread defacement and public backlash. …
The first successful AI wearable will likely focus on personalized health rather than companionship, as evidenced by the launch of the Oura Ring 5 with its built-in AI assistant and Google's Fitbit Ai…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has deployed as many as 46 mobile gas turbines at its data center in Southaven, Mississippi, according to state records cited by Canary Media. SpaceX di…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed hyperscale AI data centers, overlaying them with community-submitted reports on loc…
A study by MIT researcher Anand Shah and USC researcher Joshua Levy found that 18% of pro se court filings now contain AI-generated text, with the volume of pro se docket entries per court in the firs…