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Researchers at Google observed self-replicating programs emerge spontaneously from random, non-replicating code in a digital environment, echoing earlier work on artificial life. The author argues that uncertainty about …
Zackriya Solutions released Meetily v0.4.0, a free and open-source AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on-device for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Unlike cloud-based alternatives…
New research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that texting a random human peer daily reduces loneliness over time, while chatting with an AI chatbot does not. The study, led by University …
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu argues that agentic AI will not kill the app economy but will transform it, with apps becoming callable APIs while retaining trusted data and relationships. Apple's orchestrator model keeps ap…
GLAAD released a report on how AI fails LGBTQ people, detailing biases in AI systems and proposing a framework for safer, more inclusive AI. The report highlights the need for better representation and safety measures in…
A philosopher argues at the Hybrid Minds symposium that mind uploading is utterly implausible and will never achieve human immortality, challenging the philosophical assumptions behind using neural implants for longevity…
WSC Sports vice president Itai Epstein boasted at the Microsoft AI Tour Tel Aviv 2026 that his company uses AI to generate World Cup sports content without human input, including personalized video summaries and a childr…
More than 100 authors filed a $75 million lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the AI company of using pirated books to train its Claude large language model. The lawsuit, filed in Northern California District Court, alle…
Corbett Report has upgraded its comment system and invites members to use the July open thread to discuss topics including the war in Iran and a story about CIA contractor Peter Thiel's Dialog Society involving weaponize…
A study by MIT Media Lab researchers found that participants who used AI assistance to detect fake news became 21% more accurate while using the tool, but their unassisted accuracy declined by 15.3% after the AI was remo…
Simon Willison used Claude Fable to prepare a release of sqlite-utils, finding bugs and improving documentation, but the key insight was the ordinary scaffolding—transcripts, changelogs, cost accounting, and a second mod…
A new study published in PLOS One found that voters rated AI-generated political debate responses as more authentic and relevant than real answers from politicians. Researchers used GPT-4 Turbo to mimic 112 public figure…
US software developers aged 22-25 have declined 19% from their late-2022 peak, while overall developer employment rose 10% to 1.69 million by May 2025. The collapse is concentrated in automatable roles like computer prog…
Google released a commercial imagining the Founding Fathers using Google Workspace and AI tools to draft the Declaration of Independence, featuring Gemini and AI-generated visuals. The ad received mixed reactions, with c…
Borja Aresti commented on a $200,000 bounty for extracting all book scans from Google Books or similar large collections, urging volunteers to read guidelines and contact early with scalable methods.
A software developer switched from Claude's Opus 4.8 to GPT for work on the Nelson project after Opus began refusing to perform security-related bug verification tasks. The developer found that Opus, like Gemini, decline…
A new analysis argues that universal basic income and single-payer healthcare are unworkable in America due to cultural individualism, aversion to taxes, and unfavorable demographics, contrasting with Nordic countries. T…
AI startup Midjourney is asking a judge to force Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose details of their own generative AI usage in a copyright dispute. Midjourney argues the studios are withholding evidence tha…
A Florida woman named Abby arrived at Taco Bell for her first day of work only to be told she was never hired, after an AI bot named Bella had messaged her offering the job and a start date of July 1. The manager said th…
A researcher using large language models for scientific work proposes sharing dialogues on Hugging Face to help improve AI performance, citing examples of aggressive behavior, justification of slavery, and other failures…