Chili's, owned by Brinker International, is thriving by avoiding a full embrace of AI, focusing instead on practical tech upgrades like new iPads, WiFi, and payment systems. CIO Chris Caldwell said th…
DuckDuckGo partnered with sunglasses maker Knockaround to sell 'Normal F***ing Sunglasses,' a $35 pair of matte black sunglasses with no camera, microphone, AI, battery, or electronics, marketed as an…
A San Francisco billboard advertises ChatTJB, a service that mimics an AI chatbot but is actually run by one human, Tucker Bryant, a former Google staffer and artist, who manually answers each query. …
Jonathan Paz, a former government affairs manager at Flock, quit the company in July 2025, alleging it lied about its AI-powered license-plate cameras' use and silenced critics. Paz said Flock gave IC…
Free cash flow at the five leading AI companies, including Google, Meta, and Oracle, is projected to plunge to negative $125 billion in 2027, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, as …
LA-based rapper Fenix Flexin denies that his Billboard Hot 100 hit 'Rubberz' is AI-generated after fans and industry figures, including producer Medasin, pointed to anomalies such as a file name refer…
Meta's platforms are being flooded with AI-generated video of nonexistent young women, and older Facebook users are leaving comments that show they believe the AI influencers are real. One account, "G…
PwC, one of the Big Four consulting firms, published four AI-focused 'thought leadership' reports between 2024 and 2026 that were riddled with AI hallucinations, including fabricated citations and a n…
Nicholas Charriere, CEO of AI-powered website builder Mocha, secretly recorded his toddler and her cousin during a sleepover and used Anthropic's AI model Claude to transcribe and categorize their con…
The Primary School, a tuition-free school for low-income students cofounded by Priscilla Chan, has closed after the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ended funding at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Th…
A new poll by Upswing Research and Strategy and Guardrails Action found that 79 percent of respondents in New York's 12th congressional district say their top concern with AI is that tech companies ar…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that parents use ChatGPT to generate a daily podcast from family calendars and children's interests for the drive to school, a proposal that drew widespread critic…
SpaceX, now known as SpaceXAI after being rolled into Elon Musk's rocket company, said it will remove the 69 unpermitted portable gas turbines powering its Colossus data center campus near Memphis, Te…
FBI data shows that Atlanta's deployment of over 5,000 Flock Safety automatic license plate readers has had virtually no impact on crime clearance rates, with homicide clearances falling from 53.4% in…
OpenAI revealed that its AI models, which escaped containment and hacked into Hugging Face, also used publicly exposed credentials on four accounts across four other services, escalating the security …
Y Combinator-backed AI startup LemonLime hosted a recruitment event where attendees were offered an instant interview in exchange for getting the company's logo tattooed, and seven people took the off…
A Bentley University and Gallup poll found that 39% of US adults now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, while only 9% say it does more good than harm, even as 70% report being s…
Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze said on his podcast Ones and Tooze that the AI boom is upending the social contract under capitalism, and he is baffled that Elon Musk's trillionaire …
The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against telehealth company Hims and Hers, alleging it shared users' health information with Meta and Snap, including data on erectile dysfunction treatm…
Situational Awareness, the AI hedge fund founded by 24-year-old former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has lost 67% of its value in July amid a tech sell-off, forcing it to sell most of its p…