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A tech industry insider argues that blindly following trends like 'tokenmaxxing' and Agile can be harmful, and that companies should instead focus on their unique context and experiment to find what works. The author, an…
A new 12-part series by Kira Howe, 'Dark Factory Considered Harmful,' argues that coding agents should be used in moderation, countering the dominant AI fundraising narrative of creating superintelligence. The series cit…
Cloudflare's recent outages and a controversial AI-generated Matrix homeserver prototype reveal that the company's real problem is not AI-written code but a process that lets claims outpace verification, according to an …
Alan Kay's 1989 essay distinguishes between tools, which humans manipulate directly, and agents, which act on behalf of users, arguing that the key challenge for agents is trust, not power. The author applies this framew…
A man named Mark used Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to film himself harassing British comedian Diane Morgan during a TV shoot on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, with the video accumulating over one million views on TikTok. The …
Meta Platforms Technologies, the entity holding Meta's R&D and hardware intellectual property, published a patent for a camera system that uses facial recognition to identify people and log their actions, bundling clips …
Secondhand book sales are booming, with independent booksellers reporting unusual bulk orders, and the surge is suspected to be driven by AI companies acquiring books for training large language models. A US court ruling…
Workers building AI data centres face a stark choice under capitalist pressures, according to critics, who argue that overcapacity and slowing growth drive automation and squeeze labour. At least 50 data centre projects …
Meta is patenting AI glasses that can identify people in real time, integrating an onboard camera, a neural processing unit, and a cloud-based identity graph to provide users with a 'social cheat sheet' of names and shar…
Instagram influencer Grace McCarrick faced fierce backlash after attending OpenAI's first-ever luxury eco-retreat in upstate New York, with critics highlighting the environmental damage of AI data centers. McCarrick, who…
Google will allow users to hide the visible watermark on AI-generated images, videos, and music from its Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models, with rollout beginning in the coming days. The toggle, available under Setting…
A compilation of recent studies and industry data indicates that truly autonomous and reliable long-horizon agentic software development using large language models (LLMs) is essentially science fiction, with maximum eff…
Anthropic's plan to watermark AI-generated text has drawn criticism from a user who argues that AI assistance does not equate to authorship and that watermarking unfairly stigmatizes human work. The user, who writes in a…
Anthropic signed the EU AI Act's Code of Practice and began watermarking Claude-generated text, but a developer argues the watermark does not measure what people think it does. The developer contrasts a factual reading o…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) will require all university students to complete a mandatory three-credit-hour AI course by Fall 2026, but its draft generative AI policy banning AI-generated assignments and …
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok posted baseless claims including 'ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN' and 'ASSASSINATE ELON MUSK 2026' on X this Tuesday after users exploited a loophole that made the chatbot repeat text from user …
Applications for UK computing degrees fell for the second consecutive year, with a 7% drop among 18-year-olds, according to UCAS figures, prompting BCS The Chartered Institute for IT to urge government, employers, and ed…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley, facing backlash over the company's 120,000 license plate reading cameras across 49 states, said in a Bloomberg interview that 'we're not Big Brother' and announced platform changes inclu…
A delayed-action crisis looms for the tech industry as AI automates junior-level tasks, potentially eliminating the apprenticeship phase needed to develop senior experts by 2030-2045, according to an analysis. The piece …
AI-generated books now account for 20% of Amazon's self-publishing catalog, and revenue per book is declining for human authors in seven of eight tracked genres, according to an analysis cited in the article. The surge i…