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…
Brands are increasingly using AI-generated influencers on social media to promote products without disclosing the artificial nature of the content, an investigation by The Guardian has found. The prac…
Granta will no longer publish winning entries of the Commonwealth short story prize after controversy over alleged AI use in a winning story. The magazine cited editorial integrity concerns, while the…
Lloyds Banking Group is investing £100 million in AI and hiring 300 specialists to work on agentic AI, aiming to boost efficiency in fraud prevention, customer service, and internal operations. The ba…
OpenAI upgraded free ChatGPT users to GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming it now performs comparably to its frontier Thinking models on health questions, based on internal evaluations. The company reported a 71…
IFixit and Snazzy Labs teardowns confirm the Trump T1 phone is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro with nearly identical specs, including a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen and Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset. Trump Mobile …
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, surpassed Amazon in market capitalization to become the world's fifth most valuable company after its stock rose 13% on its Nasdaq debut. The surge followed news of Space…
Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally on June 12 after the US government issued an export-control directive requiring suspension for foreign nationals. The move sparked…
Anthropic suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all customers after the US government issued an export control directive citing a potential jailbreak that could identify software vul…
Elon Musk's net worth has crossed the trillion-dollar threshold, sparking debate about the meaning and implications of such extreme wealth. Critics argue that wealth equals power, but the author conte…
A developer warns that selfies, especially peace sign gestures, can expose fingerprints that AI tools can extract and replicate, enabling presentation attacks on biometric systems. Historical cases in…
AI-generated content, or 'slop,' is shifting cultural norms by exploiting human preferences for symmetry, legibility, and visceral appeal, a process the author calls 'hyperslopification.' This hyperpa…
A Davos 2026 chart and recent labor data show AI is thinning the middle rungs of professional hierarchies by cutting entry-level work. Stanford researchers found a 13% decline in 22-to-25-year-olds in…