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…
Anil Dash argues for a shift from Big AI to many small, responsible AI tools created by and for communities, citing widespread cultural pushback and ethical concerns about major AI platforms. He sugge…
Anthropic disabled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally after the US government issued an export control directive citing a potential narrow jailbreak, according to a June 12 statement. The dir…
Anthropic disabled its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers on June 12 after a U.S. export control directive citing national security concerns, including a potential jailbreak. Th…
The US government issued an export-control directive suspending foreign-national access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns over a reported jailbreaking metho…
Meta reorganized around AI in 2026, laying off 10% of staff and moving senior engineers into new AI teams, sparking internal unrest. An employee interrupted a livestream to protest AI leadership, and …
Refuge, the UK's largest domestic abuse charity, reported a 62% rise in tech-facilitated abuse referrals in late 2025, with abusers using AI tools, smartwatches, and voice-spoofing apps to stalk, cont…
Attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts, including those linked to former President Barack Obama, retailer Sephora, and a senior U.S. Space Force official.…
The US National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos model for offensive cyber operations, with roughly half a dozen Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency, according to the Fina…
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 …