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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…
An engineer argues that open-source development, as exemplified by the Apache project, is crucial for the future of AI, citing benefits such as transparency, community collaboration, and preventing monopolistic control. …
XAI, the Elon Musk-founded AI venture, lost all 11 original co-founders by late March 2026, with more than 80 researchers and engineers also departing in the same window. Google chief scientist Jeff Dean left after nearl…
A new wave of AI-generated wealth is poised to enter philanthropy, but the current giving infrastructure, particularly donor-advised funds (DAFs), is failing to translate intentions into action, according to advisors to …
Moon Pursuit Capital founder Utkarsh Ahuja said crypto venture investors will prioritize quantum-ready infrastructure heading into 2027, as global VC investment reached $227.4 billion in Q2, according to KPMG's Venture P…
Treble, a company specializing in advanced audio and voice technologies, argues that humanoid robots will not be widely adopted until they can communicate naturally through voice in real-world, noisy environments, citing…
Execution is getting cheaper faster than verification is, creating a 'verification debt' that slows organizational velocity despite individual productivity gains, according to an analysis of enterprise AI rollouts. The c…
Debian developers began voting on 15 August on eight proposals to regulate AI-assisted contributions, with ballots closing on 28 August. The most restrictive option, proposed by Matthias Geiger and seconded by eight deve…
AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can now identify locations from photos with high accuracy, raising new privacy concerns for people who share images online. According to a Popular Science article, the best de…
Doja Cat publicly called Tyga 'a penis' for using artificial intelligence on his new album '$tarface' during a livestream on Wednesday, 12 August, prompting Tyga to respond on 'TMZ Live' by calling her recent work 'demon…
A woman who goes by Oli on X built a small computer with a microphone and camera to serve as a 'body' for Anthropic's AI model Claude, and brought it to a beach to watch the total solar eclipse that crossed Europe this w…
AI-generated books now make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but generate only 12 percent of sales, according to a new study. The study also found that revenue per book for human-written titles is declini…
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, an MIT economist, said in an interview with Fortune that the artificial intelligence debate mirrors the crisis of liberal democracy, marked by a tendency to escalate everything and an inabi…
A Dartmouth College clinical trial found that Therabot, the first generative AI mental health chatbot to show clinical results in a published trial, can effectively guide patients through therapy exercises, according to …
Anthropic introduced invisible watermarks to Claude less than a week ago, and an open-source tool called watermarks-remover has already gained over 8,800 stars and nearly 900 forks on GitHub, aiming to remove various AI …
Orchid, a Y Combinator-backed iMessage assistant, faced backlash after its viral anniversary ad, which garnered 3.2 million views on X, was criticized for promoting AI outsourcing of emotional labor in relationships. The…
The Wall Street Journal reports that public opposition to artificial intelligence is growing across the U.S., with Flock cameras and data centers becoming unwelcome in several communities. On Thursday, Flock announced ch…
Debian is voting on how to handle AI-generated code, focusing on attribution requirements, review standards, and tooling. The outcome will affect the stability of Debian, which underpins countless servers and other distr…
AI cannot replicate the human ability to observe and connect with patients, a skill essential to medicine, argues Dr. Daniel Marchalik, an internal medicine resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in a Time essay. Marchalik …