San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in…
A new Australian government report finds women and university graduates are most at risk of losing jobs to AI, while those with high vocational training, such as tradespeople, are least exposed. Telem…
A University of Edinburgh-led study using AI to analyze CT scans of 1,722 chest pain patients found that those with denser chest and back muscles had a lower risk of heart attack or premature death ov…
TripAdvisor's AI review summaries are under fire after an investigation found the chatbot glossed over serious guest complaints, including food poisoning, poor hygiene, and sexual harassment, while pr…
Tripadvisor's AI summarization tool is glossing over serious complaints in hotel reviews, including mass food poisoning and sexual harassment, according to a Which? investigation. The AI described a C…
AI writing tools that polish social media posts can subtly shift their meaning, and those small biases can accumulate to steer public opinion, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet Institu…
A technologist's op-ed in The Guardian on AI liability contains logical flaws, including a contradictory example where the customer is held liable for an AI agent's actions, undermining its own argume…
Microsoft announced Xbox console price increases effective August 1, 2026, with 512GB models rising by $100 and 1TB models by $150, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled due to A…
A new online test from Lancaster University reveals that people can only identify AI-generated hotel reviews 60% of the time, challenging assumptions about detecting AI writing. The test highlights th…
Tripadvisor's AI-generated hotel summaries and chatbot downplay or omit reports of food poisoning, hygiene failures, and sexual harassment, according to consumer group Which? and multiple news outlets…
British actor Michael Byrne, known for roles in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' 'Braveheart,' and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,' has died at age 82. The Shakespearean performer appeared…
KPMG Australia confirmed in February 2026 that 28 staff used AI tools to cheat on internal training exams since July 2025, including a partner-level auditor fined A$10,000. The partner uploaded a trai…
A KFF poll of 2,480 US adults found that frequent use of AI chatbots for health advice is correlated with belief in anti-vaccine myths, including false claims that vaccines cause autism or that the me…
Journalist Joanna Stern spent a year integrating AI into her family's daily life, testing chatbots, robots, and self-driving cars. Her experiment, documented in a book and reported by multiple outlets…
Meta reassigned roughly 7,000 employees into AI-focused groups in mid-May, coinciding with about 8,000 layoffs, according to The New York Times. The reassignments, which placed many staff into an inte…
Indian factory workers are being filmed by head-mounted cameras to generate training data for robotics systems that may automate their jobs, with footage collected for as little as $1 per hour and wit…
ElevenLabs released an officially licensed AI replica of actor Michael Caine's voice to narrate a new audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey, ahead of Christopher Nolan's film adaptation. The project highli…
Kapwing's new report found that 59% of videos shown to a new TikTok account in May 2026 were AI-generated or low-quality compilations, three times the rate on YouTube Shorts. The study reviewed 10,742…
An investigation by The Guardian found that brands are using AI-generated influencers and synthetic customer content on social media without clear disclosure, with some creators signing non-disclosure…
Meta employees have launched a petition demanding the company stop collecting their computer-use data, including keystrokes and mouse movements, for training AI models. The petition cites privacy conc…