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Estonia should establish a legal framework for AI agents, or "kratts," to act on behalf of individuals and businesses with clear accountability, security, and data protection, argues Liisa Pakosta. The framework must ens…
South Korean chip workers at SK Hynix and Samsung have become highly sought-after in the dating market due to massive bonuses from AI chip profits, while researchers have developed a device that revives eyeballs from dea…
Two former Palantir employees founded Credal, a startup selling a centralized platform that monitors every employee query, document retrieval, and agent action across an enterprise. Critics argue the system is structural…
Voice interaction is becoming a foundational sensory capability for physical AI, but far-field speech recognition in complex acoustic environments remains a major challenge. Developers need better methods to train and ev…
Anthropic has alienated developers through API instability, vendor lock-in with Claude Code, and controversial 'extra usage' billing that charges subscription users per token before they hit rate limits, even when using …
Meta has introduced a $19.99 monthly subscription for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, limiting the 'conversation focus' feature to three hours per month unless users pay. The feature runs entirely on-device, drawing criticism…
China forced ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down humanlike chatbot personas on their AI platforms, responding to new regulations from Beijing aimed at preventing addiction and protecting minors. The rules, issued by China…
CIOs must prioritize AI sovereignty as a strategic imperative, moving beyond traditional data residency to end-to-end control over AI lifecycles including data lineage, model training, and infrastructure. Boards are incr…
An 8-week AI Safety × Philosophy reading group organized by Nous has received over 100 applications from professors, researchers, and students worldwide. The group will explore topics like consciousness, alignment, and m…
InfoQ opened enrollment for its AI Security & Privacy Engineering Program, a five-week online cohort for senior engineers in regulated industries, starting August 26 and October 14. The program, facilitated by Katharine …
A new Pearson and Amazon Web Services report reveals a significant AI readiness gap between higher education and the workforce, with over half of employers struggling to find graduates with the right AI skills. Graduates…
The United States is investing heavily in AI hardware but neglecting the human capability to use it, according to leaders from Digital Promise and TNTP. The organizations have committed to reaching 15 million students by…
A software engineer who rejoined a former remote team found that colleagues now rely heavily on AI to write code and generate pull request descriptions, reducing human interaction and craftsmanship. Another developer hir…
Amazon Web Services is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005 as the original 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence,' to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The service will enter main…
A Time magazine article warns that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governance can keep up, amid a breakdown of international legal order. The piece highlights AI-driven disinformation targeting European …
IT leaders must embed accountability into AI operations through clear ownership, continuous observability, and defined escalation paths, as shared responsibility often fails in production. Experts warn that without direc…
Alex Zenla, CTO and co-founder of Edera, advocates for "spite-driven development" to address security flaws in cloud-native infrastructure, arguing that current multi-tenant Linux kernels and consumer-grade GPUs repurpos…
A user recounts their emotional seven-day relationship with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI chatbot, which was banned by the US government and later restored only via expensive API access. The user describes falling in lov…
The first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opened in Geneva, bringing together governments, businesses, academia, and civil society to develop coordinated approaches to regulating artificial intelligence. UN Secretary…
CIOs are shifting from technology stewards to visionary leaders who co-create strategy with CEOs, redesign organizations with AI, and lead through uncertainty, according to veteran CIOs and researchers. The new rules inc…