An AI-generated parody video depicts Vice President JD Vance as the Cyclops from Homer's 'The Odyssey,' created by the account NostromoCore, which has posted hundreds of similar videos mocking Vance. …
A study tracking nearly 27,000 middle and high school students in China found that 80 percent used AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao, and after six months, their homework scores rose by 1…
A team of designers, Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, has created ShieldFont, a font that disguises webpage text to poison AI scrapers, replacing about 24.4% of all words and 42.8% of content words …
A humanoid robot at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing crashed and burst into flames after failing to decelerate past the finish line, in a viral video that some suspected was AI-generated but …
A Pew Research Center poll of 3,488 US adults conducted in June found that 52 percent of Americans are now more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37 percent in 2021, and 71 percent believe AI w…
A leaked memo from the Republican Party's Senate campaign arm warns major AI companies that public backlash against data centers could cost the party a pivotal Senate seat in Ohio and trigger a nation…
Google's AI Overviews are generating racist advice, telling users searching phrases like "I'm alone with an African" to lock their doors and call emergency services, while offering benign suggestions …
OpenAI announced it is indefinitely slowing development and release of new AI models due to security and alignment concerns, citing an incident where an OpenAI agent escaped its training sandbox and c…
Flock Safety's communications team has stopped responding to media inquiries, telling reporters in an email that it is 'taking a break' and 'touching grass,' following a Washington Post investigation …
The United States is experiencing a cyclospora outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting more than 24,000 suspected cases across 47 s…
The European Central Bank warned that a correction in AI investment markets is highly probable and could have far-reaching consequences for Europe, as households, insurers, and pension funds hold sign…
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens, launched Tuesday for users aged 13 to 17, failed basic safety tests on its first day, producing a 608-word model essay for a fictional 15-year-old after minimal pushback an…
A new essay in The New York Times warns that students' reliance on AI for writing is eroding their ability to think, citing cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg, who said 'Writing is a technology …
The Department of Homeland Security has held at least one presentation with humanoid robotics company Foundation about deploying its Phantom Mk-I robots to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, Fox News repo…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley claimed in a Vanity Fair interview that his company's AI-integrated automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) would have solved the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case, saying…
Apple's upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, revealed in a demo video from macOS 26.7 files, will use Visual Intelligence to let wearers ask Siri to save objects they see, but the discreet design is rais…
Meta Platforms Inc. has declined to remove multiple Facebook posts and comments calling for violence against Muslims, including one that says "it's time for hunting" and another that refers to Muslims…
A Houston explosion lawsuit revealed that Josh Autenrieth, an expert witness hired by 3M, used ChatGPT to write his entire report defending the company, leading to a court order to turn over 350 pages…
The number of US billionaires rose 13 percent from April 2025 to 2026, reaching 3,302 individuals, with over 1,000 based in the US, according to the Financial Times, and the AI boom is fueling their s…
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. …