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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…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that AI agents are 'tools, not persons' under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), vacating a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI's Comet Browser AI assistant in Amaz…
AI-generated slide decks, dubbed 'Slo.ppt,' are producing poor-quality presentations that lack a cohesive story and contain excessive text, according to an unnamed author. The ease of creating these decks with AI removes…
AI pilots often appear inexpensive but can lead to significant costs when scaled, according to Ben Schein, chief AI and analytics officer at Domo, who warns that the real expense emerges during deployment. A single AI co…
A new book by Ajay Singh, 'The AI Codex: Power, Ethics and the Human Future in the Age of Intelligent Machines,' argues that AI's ability to generate fluent language from accumulated human expression creates a 'crisis of…
Forbes Councils member Juan Carlos Santiago argues that AI systems, even when trained on pristine data, lack the human judgment needed to resolve conflicts and instead accelerate them, warning that organizations risk amp…
A developer argues that AI is undermining hackathons by enabling 'happy path' demos that fail on edge cases, and urges a shift toward architectural rigor over raw code generation. The author recommends mapping state mach…
Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to establish financing platforms aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure, with N…
A B2B marketing professional who self-published a children's book about AI and hosts a podcast on AI's impact says the pressure to keep up with AI developments caused severe burnout, including heightened anxiety, weight …
Axios reports that AI companies are increasingly using consumer data beyond the chat window, with OpenAI introducing an optional Computer History feature for ChatGPT and Google using uploaded photos and Search material t…
A CNBC and Generation Lab study of 18- to 34-year-olds found that a majority distrust nine major AI industry leaders, with Palantir CEO Alex Karp facing the highest distrust at 81%, followed by Palantir Chairman Peter Th…
Moxie, an AI-powered companion robot made by Embodied, Inc., is marketed to help neurodivergent children practice social skills, but after six years with 10-year-old Xander, the robot's functionality has degraded and it …
The US House of Representatives purchased 6,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses in 2025 and approved Claude for official use, but a Washington Post investigation found that AI rules are unenforced, leaving individual offices …
AI-generated wildlife images are endangering animals and people, experts warn, as fact-checkers debunk scores of synthetic visuals circulating on social media. A September study in Conservation Biology, co-authored by Jo…
Sainsbury's has suspended live facial recognition at its East Dulwich store after customer Matt Arnold, 46, was wrongly accused of shoplifting when the technology flagged him during a self-service checkout. The supermark…
Wolfgang Goerlich, a public sector CISO and faculty member at IANS Research, predicts that by 2029 the CISO role will evolve into a pacesetter for innovation, advising boards on calculated technology risks including AI. …
Big Tech's AI spending is significantly understated on balance sheets due to hidden costs in energy infrastructure, talent acquisition, and operational inefficiencies, according to an analysis of the sector. The analysis…
Sainsbury's paused its AI-powered security cameras after a shopper was falsely flagged as stealing, highlighting the risk of high-recall, low-precision vision systems in retail. The article advises implementing confidenc…
LeadDev's AI Impact Report 2026 found that 57% of respondents say tokenmaxxing is ineffective at gauging real value, and only 19% rate it as effective, as Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber have walked back or killed thei…
HackEurope 2026, a hackathon spanning three countries, concluded with a grand prize awarded to a team proposing LLM-based wildfire prediction and drone orchestration for cloud seeding, despite the project lacking a funct…