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Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' warned that Big Tech is investing roughly a trillion dollars in AI systems designed to 'do the work of workers much cheaper,' and that this …
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X on July 24, 2026, to amplify an industry letter titled 'Open Weights and American AI Leadership,' arguing that 'the world needs both frontier closed models and…
Sainsbury's has suspended its use of live facial recognition technology at its East Dulwich branch after customer Matt Arnold, 46, was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and escorted out on August 6. The company apologiz…
Anthropic is embedding a statistical text watermark in its Claude AI model to comply with EU regulations, but critics including blogger John Gruber argue the method degrades text quality by selecting words based on a wat…
Proton, the Swiss privacy-focused tech company, released a report showing that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can build detailed profiles of users from seemingly harmless conversations, covering work, relationships,…
Rapid7 researchers uncovered Operation ASTERIX, an active cryptocurrency phishing campaign that used AI coding assistants to develop phishing panels, fake wallet apps, and vishing infrastructure, exposing 885,000 phone n…
Anthropic, the creator of Claude AI, was sued for $1.5 billion USD in July 2026 over the training of its AI model on illegally sourced content, and a U.S. judge approved the settlement. The lawsuit revealed that Anthropi…
Brentwood city officials are working to remove Flock surveillance cameras installed by the Shadow Lakes Homeowners Association on public streets after acknowledging they mistakenly approved the system, which has raised p…
A Databricks and Economist survey found that 40% of respondents believe their organization's AI governance program is insufficient, and Microsoft's Data Security Index reports only 47% of organizations are implementing s…
Ottawa-based product designer Marcos Rezende launched NearLens, a free iOS app that uses Bluetooth signals to detect nearby camera-equipped smart glasses such as Ray-Ban Meta, addressing privacy concerns as daily usage o…
A cohort of participants in the online InfoQ Certified Architect Program introduced agentic fitness functions, extending evolutionary architecture beyond deterministic rules to handle evidence-bound but judgment-heavy ar…
In a podcast, Tracy Bannon, Senior Principal Software Architect and DevOps Advisor at MITRE, discussed the risks of agentic AI in software development, emphasizing that AI agents crossing system boundaries increase secur…
A multi-institution study by researchers from UCLA, MIT, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon provides the first causal evidence that brief use of an AI assistant can cause immediate, measurable cognitive impairment in subsequent…
McAfee research found that free AI vision models can geolocate travel photos with up to 91% accuracy, enabling scammers to craft personalized phishing scams. In tests with over 20,000 images, one model achieved 87% accur…
Wispr, a dictation and voice AI startup cofounded by Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, has raised a $280 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ven…
Forbes Councils member Khadim Batti argues that AI should be a collaborator, not a crutch, to boost productivity without team burnout, emphasizing the need for leaders to integrate AI thoughtfully into workflows.
Political action committees and lobbying groups are intensifying efforts in Florida as the state becomes a key battleground in the national AI regulation debate, with Governor Ron DeSantis proposing an 'AI Bill of Rights…
Saber Interactive added an AI disclaimer to Rideshare Simulator's Steam page after former lead writer Stella Sacco alleged she was replaced by ChatGPT; CEO Matt Karch apologized for his earlier comments, saying he was 't…
AI will persist and fundamentally reshape work and society despite widespread criticism, according to a Register column. Forrester predicts AI will eliminate 10.4 million U.S. jobs by 2030, and a Pew survey found 76% of …
A new design trend of 'handmade' aesthetics is being driven by designers' fears of AI, according to a Creative Review article. The trend, seen in brands like Panera Bread and Claude, uses hand-drawn elements to appear mo…