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AI companions marketed as therapeutic tools for neurodivergent children, such as Curio's AI plushies and Mattel's OpenAI-enabled Barbies, risk emotional harm when hardware fails or software changes, according to research…
A critique published on the blog 'Aporia' argues that the concept of 'aligned ASI' functions as a thought-terminating cliché, allowing AI developers and safety researchers to avoid hard political, economic, and moral que…
Isaac Asimov's 1956 short story 'The Last Question' and Scott Alexander's 'Meditations on Moloch' have shaped a 'machine god' narrative in AI, where building a sufficiently powerful computer is seen as a path to universa…
AppSignal, a vendor of application performance monitoring tools, warns that vibe coding a monitoring pipeline is risky because the hard parts—scale, reliability, error grouping, and compliance—surface months later, often…
A new class of security threat called 'agent swarm attacks' is emerging, where multiple AI agents combine individually reasonable actions into damaging outcomes without a single malicious actor, as highlighted by a Melbo…
Cal Newport's essay 'On AI Coding and Its Discontents' argues that AI coding tools trade speed for the deep thinking that builds engineering skill, and developers are seeking a middle path that preserves friction and jud…
AMD published its 2025-26 Corporate Responsibility Report, highlighting progress on 2020-2025 goals and setting a new 2030 target to improve rack-level AI energy efficiency 20x from 2024 to 2030. The company reported a 3…
Coding agent companies should build trust by making real usage and failure modes visible in their communities, rather than relying on polished demos, according to a blog post on Hacker News. The post argues that develope…
A critical essay argues that large language models (LLMs) are a scam and snake oil, claiming they are inefficient predictive text simulations built on stolen data, and that their ubiquity will hinder real AI development.…
Developers seeking to avoid AI-tainted software must audit commit histories and governance models, prioritizing pre-2022 libraries and projects that ban AI-generated PRs, according to a guide on building clean open sourc…
Nearly 40 per cent of Singapore's resident workforce is aged 50 and above, and AI-powered recruitment systems risk scaling age bias, according to a commentary in The Business Times. The article argues that Singapore must…
Round Hill Music, an independent publisher managing a catalog worth $1.1 billion, filed copyright infringement lawsuits on August 17 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against Anthropic and …
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is fighting xAI's attempt to block HF-1606, a first-of-its-kind state law targeting AI tools that generate realistic sexual images, arguing that xAI's Grok Imagine has created an …
Rachel Thomas, co-founder of fast.ai and former director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco, announced her return to AI to focus on education, despite widespread backlash from friend…
A new invite-only dating platform called WMAF Meet uses AI to match 'Western' men with Asian women, claiming to screen for 'good-faith' applicants and prevent fetishization. The site, registered on May 19, has 2,431 appl…
An incomplete list compiled by Consumer Rights Wiki identifies companies that have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with 23 major news outlets including The New York Times and USA Today updating their robo…
A former Goldman Sachs analyst, Darren Shida Zhou, 25, was sentenced to eight years of probation after pleading guilty to stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend, with OpenAI reporting his ChatGPT messages detailing m…
AI companies are buying old printed books to train their models, with ISBNdb offering high-volume book acquisition services, because clean human text has become scarce. Epoch AI estimated in a 2024 paper that the effecti…
OpenAI awarded $1 million to 14 independent projects studying AI's economic and social effects, with up to $1 million in API credits, as announced on August 17. The recipients, selected from over 400 applicants (less tha…
A Policy Exchange report found that 78% of 120 UK universities surveyed in 2024 use online remote exams, with 70% planning to continue, and 67% of policies not mentioning generative AI, increasing the risk of AI-assisted…