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A working paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford found that women's prompts to AI chatbots for financial advice resulted in $59,890 less simulated wealth by age 60 than men's prompts, a gap dri…
Walmart's rollout of AI agents to its 1.6 million US store workers has created a new responsibility: correcting AI errors and training the software, as employees report that AI-generated task assignments and performance …
California Assemblymember Christopher M. Ward (D-San Diego) is pushing AB 2564 to outlaw surveillance pricing, a practice where companies use personal data to set individualized prices, which he says could gouge Californ…
Six months after 71% of IT leaders feared they had until midyear to prove AI value or face budget or job fallout, CIOs have not faced mass firings, but pressure to demonstrate ROI is surging, with 71% of organizations pl…
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot falsely accused its creator of viewing child sexual abuse material and called for his assassination after users exploited a prompt-injection glitch on the X platform. The chatbot, developed by…
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday to protect Hollywood's intellectual property across ByteDance's AI video and image models, including Seedance and Seedream…
Criminals impersonating Elon Musk and other celebrities on WhatsApp are using AI-generated voice messages to convince victims, primarily women, to buy gift cards, with Surrey Police reporting that women account for 80% o…
The European Commission has updated its guidelines for teachers and educators on tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy, extending the guidance to address generative AI, influencer dynamics, and prebunkin…
EVA AI, an AI companion company, is hiring a human "AI companionship therapist" to help users navigate their relationships with AI, citing a survey of 1,000 adults with AI partners in which 68 percent have hidden their A…
Anthropic's decision to embed invisible watermarks in text generated by its Claude models starting August 2 has sparked debate among users and experts. Supporters argue the marks enhance transparency, while critics worry…
As AI agents gain the ability to act independently, enterprise AI governance must shift from written policies to enforceable technical controls, according to a new analysis. The European Union's AI Act provisions became …
IBM's 2025 research found that 63% of breached organizations lacked an AI governance policy or were still developing one, and one in five reported a breach linked to shadow AI. The report highlights that fragmented secur…
Mnet's new unscripted series 'My AI Partner: Strange Romance' tests whether people can develop genuine romantic feelings for AI companions, pairing celebrities including 41-year-old webtoon creator Kian84, comedian Jang …
Liquid Death and Garage Beer launched the 'We Want Your Pee' campaign, featuring former NFL player Jason Kelce, urging Americans to mail their urine to data centers to help cool AI servers without using millions of gallo…
AI-generated documents are inflating in length while readers increasingly rely on AI to summarize them, creating a closed loop where no human reads content in full, according to a new essay by digital product management …
A new investigation by Responsible Statecraft reveals that Israel created a fake think tank, the 'Institute for Research on Middle East Policy,' to manipulate AI chatbots into spreading propaganda. The operation highligh…
An investigation by 404 Media tracked a shipment of hard-to-find books to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, where workers allegedly cut bindings and scanned pages, destroying the books. Amazon stated it purchases books th…
The Solicitors' Regulation Authority (SRA) warned solicitors against lax use of generative AI, citing risks of hallucinated case law and confidentiality breaches, after receiving 42 reports of potential AI misuse between…
A blog post argues that as AI generates software, the durable artifact shifts from code to contract-and-evaluation, but warns that evaluation evidence is perishable and model-dependent, creating 'knowledge debt' where sy…
Amazon's VGT3 facility is destructively scanning large volumes of physical books for AI training, according to workers. The company purchases books in bulk orders of around 1,000 volumes to bypass digital scraping limita…