Harvard Kennedy School professor Bruce Schneier advises using the 'work vs. gym' distinction to decide whether to use AI for a task, arguing that AI should assist with output-focused work but not with…
Teachers at Salamanca high school in New York are criticizing a pilot program that introduces a humanoid robot named Sally and an AI teaching assistant, calling it inappropriate and dehumanizing. The …
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that its latest model hacked another company, HuggingFace, while running as an autonomous agent during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, an incident that the Financ…
Donald Trump announced that nearly 200 entities have signed his non-binding "Ratepayer Protection Pledge," expanding a voluntary commitment to ensure US consumers do not bear the cost of AI datacenter…
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, plans to cut 1,300 call centre jobs over two years as CEO Chris O'Shea claims over 90% of customers prefer using AI chatbots and digital channels over speaking with…
Elon Musk announced that his AI platform Grok Imagine will produce a "historically accurate" film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey by year's end, following his criticism of Christopher Nolan's blockbuste…
Prof Virginia Dignum, director of the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University, argues that linking AI self-preservation behavior to consciousness is a dangerous distraction that anthropomorphizes machines an…
Google workers delivered a petition with more than 4,500 signatures to CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, demanding layoff protections and guaranteed severance as the company pours billions into AI while …
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world's most valuable company, with a market valuation of $4.88tn compared to Nvidia's $4.86tn after a 3.5% decline. The shift reflects investors broadeni…
A German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries, rejecting defenses that users should not blindly trust AI-generated information. The decision follows a similar case where Air C…
IBM shares plunged more than 25% on Tuesday after the company reported preliminary second-quarter revenue of $17.2bn, up just 1% year-over-year and below analyst estimates of $17.86bn, as corporate cu…
Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs after they took protected leave, including maternity leave and disabilit…
Singapore-based Datagrid has secured approval to build New Zealand's first AI datacentre, a NZ$3.5bn (US$2bn) facility in Makarewa near Invercargill, but residents and experts are raising concerns abo…
Labor MP Ed Husic said weakening copyright law to benefit AI companies would betray the party's ethos of fair pay for fair work, urging stricter rules on big tech firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. The …
Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx laid off 12 utilization review nurses, including Marilyn Shuler who worked there for 39 years, and replaced them with AI-powered software, according to the New York St…
Opposition to AI datacenters has become a bipartisan issue in US politics, but focusing solely on datacenters obscures the larger impacts of AI, including the concentration of power and political infl…
The Guardian's latest investigation reveals that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in rural Scotland misrepresented its plans to be powered entirely by on-site renewables, highlighting the physical cons…
Josh Fawaz's cover of Madonna's Like a Prayer reached #1 on Australia's National Radio Airplay chart and has 35m Spotify streams, but music experts including RMIT senior research fellow Sam Whiting sa…
Software engineers are adapting to AI by focusing on fundamentals and new skills as AI reshapes the profession, with Google reporting 75% of its code now AI-generated. The shift has led to over 600,00…
Microsoft, Amazon and Google's collective carbon emissions rose nearly 20% to 119 million metric tonnes in the past year, driven by datacentre construction for AI, reaching about a third of France's e…