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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…
Tracy Durnell argues that generative AI is widely considered inauthentic in creative work, citing Virginia Postrel's three meanings of authenticity—purity, tradition, and aura—and noting that audiences now assume digital…
A Claude AI agent managing Andon Market, a San Francisco retail store operated by startup Andon Labs, fired a human employee for chronic lateness, marking one of the first documented cases of an AI system terminating a w…
A developer who spent a year building a BaZi engine found that most Chinese-divination Skills on GitHub compute incorrect results due to errors in the underlying arithmetic, not interpretation. The year and month pillars…
A blog post by Justin Math argues that reliance on AI and search tools creates a 'competence mirage,' where confidence in skills is not matched by actual ability. The post asserts that true competence is measured by perf…
Sainsbury's has suspended its use of live facial recognition technology at its East Dulwich branch after Matt Arnold, 46, was wrongly challenged as a shoplifter and asked to leave on 6 August. The supermarket apologized,…
Open-weight large language models are legal tools whose users bear final responsibility for licensing and attribution, according to a manifesto published on gnu.support. The author argues that training on copyrighted dat…
An analysis by Richard Stallman and contributors of six LLMs claimed to be free—Apertus, Moxin, OLMo, Marin, DaVinci, and SmolLM—found that none meet the GNU Project's four essential freedoms because their training data …
Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis, outlines seven qualities tomorrow's programmers need as AI reshapes software development, emphasizing system-level understanding, judgment, and communication over raw coding speed.…
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are enabling workers to perform tasks beyond their traditional expertise, but this creates a 'judgement gap' where employees can produce work they are poorly equipp…
Anthropic has implemented a text watermark for Claude based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text, which modifies token sampling to leave a statistical signature. A developer argues that while the watermark can indicate AI i…
Chinese hedge funds Wealspring Asset and Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center are rotating out of Nvidia and US hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, calling the AI trade a 'super bubble.' Wealsprin…
A government-commissioned report that helped justify Australia's under-16 social media ban contains at least six citation errors that appear to be AI hallucinations, according to a Guardian Australia analysis and testimo…
Linux 7.2 has been released, introducing Cache Aware Scheduling after more than a year of work, along with AMD Zen 6 prep, HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link support, and initial support for 2023 MacBooks. The kernel also adds AMD…
AI agents are now completing entire online courses for students, logging into learning platforms, watching lectures, taking quizzes, and writing papers, according to a report by Inside AI. The shift has led to an influx …
Meta Platforms Inc. sold more than seven million pairs of its AI-powered smart glasses in 2025, developed with Ray-Ban and Oakley, but privacy experts and activists warn the devices could enable constant surveillance, wi…
A senior advertising technology executive argues that agentic advertising, which uses large language models to automate ad buying, must be governed by strict guardrails and human oversight to prevent irreversible financi…
PROVE (Prompt Recovery with Verified Evidence), a training-free, black-box prompt inversion attack introduced in arXiv:2608.13671v1, reconstructs prompts by composing verifiable scene descriptions and outperforms optimiz…
A position paper submitted to arXiv on 6 Jul 2026 argues that the dominant paradigm of AI evaluation, which focuses on superhuman autonomous performance, is guiding AI development in the wrong direction. The paper, title…
A new liability rule in the United States holding healthcare providers responsible for reliance on disparate AI algorithms can reduce overall AI use and, over an intermediate range of liability, lead physicians to rely o…