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A peer-reviewed study in npj Climate Action finds that AI-driven productivity gains in fossil fuel production will likely offset emissions reductions from AI-enhanced renewables, increasing carbon pollution by 1% to 5% a…
A fake AI influencer named Janie, created by an unnamed author using ChatGPT-generated images and AI video tools, amassed 1,300 TikTok followers and tens of thousands of views per video within a week, leading The Daily M…
Round Hill Music filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against AI music company Suno, following a similar suit against Anthropic, bringing the total number of lawsuits against AI companies to 135.
Northeastern University professor Jiabao Li's art exhibit 'Womb Wetware' at The Interaction of Art and Technology (TIAT) museum in San Francisco lets visitors interact with a customizable AI Mom, featuring sliders to adj…
Amazon is destroying rare books to digitize them for AI training, prioritizing scale over preservation and risking the loss of cultural heritage. The company's destructive scanning process damages fragile materials, and …
Flock, the police-tech company operating about 120,000 automatic license plate readers across the US, announced changes to its platform on August 13, 2026, to prevent misuse after the Washington Post identified 50 cases …
Some technology companies are restricting or banning AI coding assistants due to risks in correctness, maintainability, security, and accountability, despite their productivity benefits. The distinction between code gene…
Independent music publisher and record label Round Hill Music sued Anthropic for copyright infringement, alleging unauthorized use of its musical compositions to train Anthropic's AI models. The lawsuit, filed in the Nor…
Tech blogger John Gruber called Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude's AI-generated text a 'perversion of writing' and 'patently offensive,' arguing that Claude should choose the best words for users rather than words th…
Amazon is buying printed books through commercial marketplaces, cutting off their bindings, scanning the pages for AI training data, and destroying the physical copies, according to an August 17th investigation by 404 Me…
Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to an investigation by 404 Media. A bookseller placed an Apple AirTag in a book ordered anonymously via Biblio, tracking it to A…
An expert witness retained by 3M used ChatGPT to draft most of his report for a civil trial over a fatal Houston industrial explosion, feeding the chatbot an explicit objective: build a case that left 3M with no responsi…
Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann is facing criticism after the Financial Times added an editor's note to his August 13 op-ed stating that AI was used to condense a longer draft of the column prior to submission, which …
Open source AI is the only way to prevent a few large corporations from controlling the technology, argues a new opinion piece. The article warns that proprietary models create a dependency loop, while open-source models…
For the 18th straight day, local developer Sage Colvin, 23, has protested outside a Eugene, Oregon coworking space to denounce AI and LLM-generated code, advocating for pure symbolic machine code over modern programming …
An Airtag hidden in a rare book by a bookseller tracked a bulk order to an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, revealing that Amazon is destroying rare books to scan their pages for AI training data, according to a…
Daniel Miessler's 2026 cybersecurity career guide argues that AI has reset what the industry rewards, making deep technical understanding and a problem-focused mindset more important than ever. The guide, an update to hi…
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance announced a global agreement Monday to protect intellectual property on ByteDance's AI video and image generators, including Seedance and Seedream, marking the first-ever AI c…
Farnsley Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, sent students home on the first day of school with AI-generated educational materials riddled with errors, including a map labeling Kentucky as "Venecky," Oklahoma as "Olkc…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that the current backlash against AI is fundamentally a crisis of trust, driven by the opacity of large language models and their tendency to hallucinate. He advocates for interpretabili…