Debian developers are voting on eight proposals, plus a 'None of the above' option, to decide whether to ban or allow AI-assisted contributions, with the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contribu…
AI systems have become proficient at professional-level mathematics but remain unable to perform basic counting, according to The Verge's AI reporter, who noted that newer models can produce work on p…
Flock, the police surveillance company, has secretly built a prompt-based AI tool that can identify drivers and track vehicles by movement patterns, according to a WIRED investigation. The system, sti…
A ZipRecruiter survey from April found that 47% of recent graduates say AI has already impacted hiring in their field, while Federal Reserve Bank of New York data shows the unemployment rate for recen…
New York has overtaken the San Francisco Bay Area as the largest tech talent market for the first time, according to real estate and investment firm CBRE's annual report. The New York Metro Area's tec…
LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced that over one million people have clicked the platform's new 'Seems like AI slop' button, which launched after an analysis found 41% of longfor…
Apple Inc. is cutting more than 200 jobs across its Vision Pro, Siri, and software teams as it shifts resources toward a rebuilt, AI-powered Siri and other future products. Roughly 100 positions are b…
A study of 27,000 pupils aged 12-18 in China found that students using AI models such as Doubao and DeepSeek saw their average homework scores rise by 18% and homework time fall from 64 to 45 minutes,…
Google LLC has introduced a 'Preferred Sources' button that publishers can embed to let readers favor their sites across Search, Discover, and Google News, aiming to counter traffic losses from AI-pow…
A backlash against AI data centers is driving recall elections in more than a dozen U.S. communities, with residents targeting officials who approved projects. In Festus, Mo., critics gathered enough …
Zvezdelina Stankova, a math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit her op-ed in the San Francisco Standard, which criticized studen…
Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter for about $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion allocated to OpenRouter's founders, according to The New York Times. The deal, announced less than three m…
Independent music publisher Round Hill filed copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Anthropic, alleging unauthorized use of hundreds of copyrighted songs to train their AI syste…
Cursor launched Origin, a GitHub-style code hosting platform built into its AI coding environment, for paid users on Monday morning, coinciding with a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute GitHub outage that …
Google agreed to pay $10 million for Spirit Airlines' entire data trove, including emails, spreadsheets, bookings, frequent-flyer records, and employee information, following the carrier's May shutdow…
Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI-assisted Facewatch facial recognition technology in its East Dulwich store after customer Matt Arnold, 46, was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from …
OpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for an Ohio data center that will provide 8 gigawatts of computing capacity, powered by 10 gigawatts of new energy generation, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to $105 bil…
Amazon is buying large quantities of printed books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying the books in the process, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to an A…
Epic Games confirmed during an Ask Me Anything session on its Epic Games Store community Discord server that a Linux version of its storefront is coming, potentially removing the need for third-party …
Anthropic's Claude chatbot now watermarks text it generates or processes, a move required by the European Union's AI Act, but the feature has sparked user backlash, with dozens canceling subscriptions…