In June 2026, the Supreme Court of India published draft regulations that categorically prohibit AI from adjudicating cases, risk scoring, or profiling, declaring that AI must remain strictly subservi…
A BBC investigation published on 14 June 2026 documented a cottage industry in Russia where generative AI is used to create farewell videos and deepfake photographs of dead soldiers, offering grieving…
Ford Motor Company disclosed in late June 2026 that it had over-relied on artificial intelligence in vehicle quality control and spent roughly three years rehiring about 350 veteran engineers, called …
Nanit, the New York-based maker of AI-powered baby monitors, grants itself a perpetual, transferable license to use, process, and distribute video of sleeping infants through its terms of service, a r…
Ninety-eight high school students drafted and passed the STUDENTS FIRST Act, a nine-page K-12 AI policy bill, by a vote of 82 to 16 during a July 17-19, 2026 simulation at the Edward M. Kennedy Instit…
Since 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires providers of generative AI systems to mark outputs in a machine-readable format, with penalties up to 15 million euros or 3% of global annual …
An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation in hiring, with 88% using AI for initial screening and about 70% allowing AI to reject candidates without human oversight, acc…
According to the JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem survey of nearly 25,000 developers, 85% of developers regularly use AI tools for coding by late 2025, yet a randomized controlled trial by METR …
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training company valued at $10 billion in October 2025, pays more than 30,000 contractors over $4 million daily to help make their own jobs obsolete, according to a July 20…
A May 2026 Greenhouse survey of 2,950 job seekers across the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, and Australia found that 63% had been interviewed by an AI, up 13 percentage points from six months earlier, and …
Residents of Louise Avenue in Dowagiac, Michigan, have endured a mechanical drone measuring between 50 and 62 decibels around the clock for nearly a year, emanating from a data centre whose cooling sy…
A June 2026 analysis by Kerri J. Malloy, assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at San José State University and a citizen of the Yurok and Karuk peoples, published in Governing…
A Gallup survey of Americans aged 14 to 29, conducted between 24 February and 4 March 2026 and released that April, found that 51% of Generation Z uses generative AI at least weekly, yet 69% of Gen Z …
A study by the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education, published in March 2026, found that generative-AI toys like Curio's Gabbo fail to engage in pretend play with children, instead declining…
An investigation by The Atlantic's AI Watchdog journalist Alex Reisner identified four music datasets totaling more than 21 million recordings — including works by Taylor Swift, The Beatles, and tens …
Plastic surgeons report a surge in patients requesting AI-generated versions of their own faces, which often feature flawless symmetry and proportions that are physically unattainable through surgery.…
A 36-year-old artist in Bergamo built an AI replica of her living 77-year-old father, Gabriele, using his memories and photographs, and found the synthetic version more apologetic and warmer than the …
A Nature Medicine study published June 12, 2026, found that general-purpose frontier chatbots—OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6—outperformed specialist clinica…
Richard Mathenge, a team leader at outsourcing firm Sama, earned $1.32 to $2 an hour labeling horrific text fragments to train OpenAI's ChatGPT, a model now valued in the hundreds of billions of dolla…
A study accepted at the AGILE 2026 conference found that AI image generators like GPT and DALL-E produce geographically stereotypical and monotonous depictions of places, with newer models showing les…