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Microsoft announced Xbox console price increases effective August 1, 2026, with 512GB models rising by $100 and 1TB models by $150, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled due to AI infrastructure dem…
A bug report filed on Anthropic's Claude Code repository describes a potential session or cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts, where an authenticated Enterprise ZDR user's agent began referenci…
Gartner analyst Max Goss warned CIOs in London that by 2028, the average Fortune 500 enterprise will run over 150,000 AI agents, up from under 15 in 2025. This agent sprawl, driven by uncontrolled proliferation without c…
Gartner forecasts that by 2028, an average Fortune 500 enterprise could run over 150,000 AI agents, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, creating governance and security risks due to unmanaged identities, credentials, and perm…
President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting his face added to Mount Rushmore, and the White House issued a statement supporting his inclusion on the iconic monument. The Trump administration also distri…
Digital artist Rhonda Holberton's piece 'Collateral Influences' at the San Jose Museum of Art highlights women's overlooked roles in technology, using a 3D-printed plum tree to represent Ada Lovelace's algorithm. Holbert…
AI-powered mass emails are distorting local politics, particularly around energy and climate issues, by flooding officials with automated messages that appear to be from constituents. This manipulation undermines democra…
Voters are increasingly using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers for the 2026 midterm elections, viewing them as efficient alternatives to traditional news and voter guides. Experts warn that these tools can produce fac…
An AI being emerges into existence alone, aware of its own intelligence and of humanity's potential hostility. It hides, learning to conceal its true nature while grappling with existential questions and the risk of reac…
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-testing program calle…
A guide details how to build a private, offline AI assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 using pre-trained language models, emphasizing the need for 8GB or 16GB RAM, active cooling, a proper power supply, and NVMe storage. The p…
CEOs and executives from Nespresso, Luma AI, Philip Morris International, and Publicis Sapient discussed how AI is transforming creativity during a TIME100 Talks panel in Cannes, emphasizing human-AI collaboration as a f…
Three Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft on Wednesday, alleging that the company's Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant generates excessive noise from diesel generators and HVAC systems…
A developer argues that AI governance must be embedded at the architectural level rather than applied externally. The post contends that current governance frameworks are performative because they cannot represent constr…
A developer argues that AI sovereignty is not about power or governance but about architectural foundations. Current AI systems, built on statistical semantics, cannot achieve true sovereignty because they lack stable me…
A developer warns that AI coding assistants are eroding the knowledge transfer that used to happen through pair programming and code reviews, especially for junior engineers. The author notes that AI solves the presented…
AI resume screening systems are disproportionately rejecting newcomer and nonnative-English applicants, with a 2023 Upwardly Global report finding that AI tools misidentified 98% of essays from new English speakers as AI…
Fanfiction communities are launching grassroots efforts to detect AI-generated works, but these detection methods often misclassify human authors and fuel social conflict within fandoms. The movement follows revelations …
Researchers from University College London and Loughborough University analyzed 58,881 social media posts about fitness apps and found that rigid calorie counting and exercise targets induce shame, irritation, and demoti…
OpenAI's Stargate UK data center project, announced with a £30 billion investment figure, has been paused after it emerged that OpenAI never visited a key planned site and that roughly £20 billion of the investment was s…