An outage at Petlibro, a maker of internet-connected pet feeders, began on August 11 and caused scheduled feedings to fail, leaving some cats hungry and owners unable to check on their pets remotely. …
Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to an investigation by 404 Media. A bookseller placed an Apple AirTag in a book ordered anonymously via Bibl…
Farnsley Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, sent students home on the first day of school with AI-generated educational materials riddled with errors, including a map labeling Kentucky as "Venecky…
OpenAI has introduced Computer History, a new opt-in feature for ChatGPT's macOS desktop app that tracks clicks, keystrokes, and other inputs to train its AI model, raising privacy concerns. The featu…
CGTrader, an online marketplace for 3D assets, reports that AI-generated models now make up one in six listings but generate only $1 out of every $90 in revenue, indicating buyers assign almost no eco…
A new analysis by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) warns that AI-generated fruit videos, or 'fruitslop,' are increasingly depicting extreme violence and could radicalize young vie…
A CNBC Generation Labs survey of over 1,000 US adults aged 18 to 34 found that 81% do not trust Palantir CEO Alex Karp to act responsibly on AI, the lowest among nine tech executives, while Microsoft …
Facebook is hosting a wave of Islamophobic AI-generated content inciting violence against Muslim Americans, following a confrontation between far-right agitator Jake Lang and protesters in Dearborn, M…
Axios, a for-profit media company majority-owned by Cox Enterprises, has signed a three-year agreement with OpenAI to underwrite 13 local newsletters, giving OpenAI access to all Axios content to trai…
Anthropic announced that its Claude chatbot will watermark text it generates, a move required by the European Union's AI Act passed in 2024, sparking outrage among AI users who fear detection of AI-ge…
Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston wrote an article describing how he uses AI chatbots to summarize books like 'The Last of the Mohicans' chapter by chapter, saying the AI has become his 'reading buddy…
Congressional staffers are increasingly using AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok to draft legislation and other documents, with little oversight, according to a W…
A man named Mark used Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to film himself harassing British comedian Diane Morgan during a TV shoot on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, with the video accumulating over one million v…
Instagram influencer Grace McCarrick faced fierce backlash after attending OpenAI's first-ever luxury eco-retreat in upstate New York, with critics highlighting the environmental damage of AI data cen…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley, facing backlash over the company's 120,000 license plate reading cameras across 49 states, said in a Bloomberg interview that 'we're not Big Brother' and announced pl…
A woman who goes by Oli on X built a small computer with a microphone and camera to serve as a 'body' for Anthropic's AI model Claude, and brought it to a beach to watch the total solar eclipse that c…
Warner Bros. deleted a behind-the-scenes video for the 2026 film "Supergirl" after fans and media outlets accused it of showing AI-generated concept art for the character Lobo, sparking backlash over …
A new paper in NPJ Climate Action finds that AI's enabled emissions from fossil fuel companies are three to 13 times greater than data center emissions, with authors Will and Holly Alpine of the Alpin…
OpenAI reported 25-year-old Goldman Sachs financial analyst Darren Zhou to the FBI after he used ChatGPT to make violent threats against his ex-girlfriend, including saying, "I'm gonna kill her by the…
Tech-industry layoffs in 2026 have surpassed the total for all of 2025, reaching 126,305 by mid-August, according to the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi. This exceeds the 122,606 jobs lost across 278 globa…