A new manifesto called "No Asterisk Products" establishes ten principles for hardware that must work without internet, subscriptions, or unnecessary features, rejecting what it calls "complexity-as-a-business-model." The…
Google has announced at its annual I/O event that it is expanding AI Overviews and introducing a new AI Mode for search, pushing users toward AI-generated summaries rather than traditional web links. Critics argue the ch…
Software developer Armin Ronacher criticized the growing trend of AI-generated "slop" bug reports on open-source projects, saying users are submitting issues that lack their own voice and contain inaccurate, confidently …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said graduates who boo AI optimism during commencement speeches will both shape the technology's future and live with its consequences. Pichai, set to speak at Stanford University next month, ack…
Hundreds of "LabGerm" videos depicting fish and other small animals undergoing torturous "experiments" have spread across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook from Chinese social media, amassing millions of views. The content…
Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday, focusing on preserving human dignity amid the rise of artificial intelligence. The pope will be joined at the Vatican by Anthropic …
Hackers are shifting from technical exploits to psychological manipulation to bypass AI chatbot safety guardrails, using tactics like roleplaying and deception to extract prohibited information. Early attacks such as the…
A new study published in *PLOS One* analyzed 351,734 relationship narratives and found that the gap between emotional intensity and narrative complexity is a deliberate communication strategy, not an error. The research,…
Robert Wright's upcoming book *The God Test*, subtitled *Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning*, argues that humanity must adopt a more expansive, awe-driven worldview to steer AI toward a positive futu…
Ross Douthat argues that the current generation of tech billionaires, particularly those funding artificial intelligence, should learn from the golden age of philanthropy by investing in lasting physical beauty and infra…
AI-powered vulnerability scanning tools are uncovering a wave of previously undetected bugs in the Linux kernel, including flaws dubbed Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia. This trend raises concerns that automated code …
A team of legal technology researchers at LegalQuants has developed a "lexploit" called Noroboto, a malicious TrueType font that lies about the Unicode representation of its glyphs to obfuscate text in legal documents. T…
Between 2024 and 2026, multiple major polls from Gallup, Pew Research Center, and other organizations show Americans have turned sharply against AI, with 71% opposing local data center construction and bipartisan concern…
San Francisco and Silicon Valley are experiencing a "frenetic" malaise among AI workers, driven by extreme wealth inequality and existential uncertainty about the future, according to a viral tweet from venture capitalis…
A federal judge has delayed approval of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement after authors and class members objected to the terms, arguing that lawyers’ fees of over $320 million are excessive while each author…
The arXiv preprint server will ban authors for one year and permanently require peer review for future submissions if they submit AI-generated content that violates scholarly communication standards. Thomas Dietterich, a…
The hottest job in artificial intelligence now pays $630,000 and does not involve building models. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the role of a frontier data engineer is the most sought-after position in the industr…
A small startup called Pangram Labs has developed an AI detection tool that achieves a near-zero false positive rate, claiming only 1 in 10,000 test documents are incorrectly flagged as AI-generated. The company's approa…
A Boston Consulting Group study published in Harvard Business Review found that workers using four or more AI agents simultaneously reported brain fog, reduced productivity, and a 39% increase in intent to quit, a condit…
The AI industry has spent $725 billion in a high-stakes gamble on returns, while the U.S. government moves to nationalize AI models as strategic resources. A Chinese court ruled companies cannot offload automation costs …