Richard Mathenge, a team leader at outsourcing firm Sama, earned $1.32 to $2 an hour labeling horrific text fragments to train OpenAI's ChatGPT, a model now valued in the hundreds of billions of dolla…
Publishers including Axios, Forbes, Future, Time and The Washington Post are monetizing their prominence in AI answer engines by packaging AI visibility metrics into GEO products for advertisers, even…
A Time magazine article warns that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governance can keep up, amid a breakdown of international legal order. The piece highlights AI-driven disinformation…
Time, The Economist, and other major news publishers are re-engineering their websites for AI agents by creating markdown versions of content and implementing bot whitelists. Time is converting all we…
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced a shift to 'agent-first' computing, with over 40 device designs including jewelry, camera-equipped earbuds, and smart glasses. The company's Project Solara platfo…
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…
A United Nations University report projects that AI-driven data centres could consume up to 945 terawatt-hours of electricity and 9.3 trillion litres of water annually by 2030, with the water usage ro…
AI companies are increasingly turning to human-driven surveillance to gather training data, with startups offering free cleaning services in exchange for recording private homes. Critics argue this sh…
CNN sued AI company Perplexity on Thursday, alleging it engaged in "massive copyright infringement" by scraping more than 17,000 of the network's stories, photos, and videos without permission to trai…
Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a new excise tax on energy consumption by AI companies and large data centers to fund worker protections, universal health care, and education. The Massachusetts Demo…
Parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were flagged as AI-generated by automated detection tools, according to analyses cited by The Verge. The Verge reports that the detector Pangra…
Amazon has launched a new Alexa+ feature called "Alexa Podcasts" that allows U.S. users to generate AI-narrated podcast episodes on any topic by simply asking the voice assistant. The feature research…
Mainstream media outlets have adopted the alarmist language and crisis framing previously associated with alternative platforms like Zero Hedge and Info Wars, blurring the line between the two categor…