Meta has agreed to pay $18 billion over ten years and implement sweeping child-safety changes, including a two-hour daily time limit for minors on Instagram and Facebook, to settle a lawsuit brought b…
German designer Simon Weckert has created a deliberately ugly Hawaiian shirt designed to evade AI-powered surveillance cameras, using clashing colors and patterns to break the body's outline so detect…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, announced in a blog post and media interviews that he is the first person to publicly express alarm about the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, warning …
A new slang term, "meat proxies," coined by developer Niklas Gruhn, describes coworkers who blindly copy-paste AI chatbot output without editing, reflecting growing frustration over cognitive offloadi…
Elon Musk told employees at Cursor's first all-hands meeting after SpaceX acquired the company for $60 billion that it is inevitable AI models will become impossible for humans to control, and that Sp…
Harvard historian Jill Lepore warns that tech elites are pushing the world toward an 'artificial state' that enables the 'factory farming of humans,' replacing constitutional democracy with machine-dr…
A National Bureau of Economic Research survey found that more than 90 percent of executives reported no impact of AI on their firm's employment over the past three years, and 89 percent said there was…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the collapse of AI hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to banks that handled its trades after the fund lost over two-thirds…
Even infants are far more efficient language learners than today's AI chatbots, according to experts interviewed by MIT Technology Review. Stanford cognitive scientist Michael C. Frank noted that todd…
Spending on Anthropic's flagship Fable 5 model has plateaued at just 11% of enterprise AI spending among 70,000 US companies tracked by payments group Ramp, reflecting a shift toward cheaper alternati…
President Donald Trump defended AI data centers in an interview with Michael Cohen, saying communities that oppose them are making a mistake and calling those that embrace them the 'smart ones.' Trump…
A Wired analysis finds that top AI executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, are failing to grasp why the US public is increasingly hostile toward AI, instead blam…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called for a national "compromise" between privacy and safety in a Fox News interview as backlash against the company's AI-powered surveillance cameras intensifies, wi…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on ABC that AI companies have "basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them, and that's why they got the backlash they deserve," reversing …
Derek Chadwick, cofounder of the gay dating app Goose, resigned after an investigation by Wired revealed the app used AI-generated fake influencer accounts to lure men into signing up. Chadwick announ…
A Resume Builder survey of 1,000 recent graduates found that 34% had a job offer rescinded after acceptance, with 13% experiencing it multiple times, and 68% were ghosted after interviews, as AI-gener…
The U.S. housing market is suffering from a shortage of skilled construction workers, with many flocking to AI data center projects, according to Ed Brady, CEO of the Home Builders Institute. Brady sa…
European Central Bank warned that a market correction following years of AI hype and massive spending could be imminent, potentially causing enormous international consequences. Financial crisis exper…
Healthwatch Rotherham reported that patients in South Yorkshire are skipping doctor appointments because an AI receptionist called Emma, built by QuantumLoopAI, cannot understand their Yorkshire accen…
A study by University of Washington researchers analyzing 24,000 responses from six AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, found that AI-generated children's stories erase female animal cha…