The Caribbean regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, "The Serpent in the Grove" by Jamir Nazir, has drawn online accusations of being AI-generated after an AI-detection platform scored…
Seattle city council committees unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers, with a full council vote scheduled for June 9, 2026. The pause, paired with a resolution to …
Pope Leo XIV published a 42,300-word encyclical titled "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence" on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government r…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, creating a voluntary framework for federal review of advanced AI systems before public release, asking developers to provide governmen…
Graduation speakers who mentioned artificial intelligence drew audible boos from 2026 graduates across multiple U.S. campuses, with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt receiving jeers at the University of …
In 2018, writer Max Read identified "the Inversion," a point where bots had come to constitute the internet itself, eroding trust in online reality. Today, autonomous AI agents now perform human tasks…
AI agents that execute natural language commands on user machines pose serious security risks, including credential exfiltration, file deletion, and prompt injection attacks. Anthropic's telemetry sho…
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…
OpenAI announced on May 20 that an internal general-purpose reasoning model produced a proof disproving Paul Erdos's planar unit distance conjecture, a problem first posed in 1946. External mathematic…
Tech evangelists are increasingly using AI chatbots to draft personal communications with friends and loved ones, a practice that damages relationships through manipulation and a lack of respect. The …
Pope Leo XIV published an encyclical titled "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, calling for artificial intelligence to be "disarmed" and freed from logics of domination, exclusion, and death. The d…
Taylor Swift's company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in late April 2026, covering a stage photograph and two audio clips of Swift s…
According to a Nieman Lab report, major news publishers like *The New York Times* and *The Guardian* have begun blocking the Internet Archive over fears that AI companies might scrape its repositories…