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Privacy complaints in Hong Kong jumped 62% year on year to 2,990 in the first half of 2026, with the information technology sector accounting for 867 cases, according to Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung L…
A Pew Research study from early 2026 found that while over half of U.S. teens use chatbots for information or schoolwork, only about 12% use them for emotional support, with most engaging in low-stakes tasks. However, a …
AI content pipelines can produce factually true statements that are wrong for a specific brand, such as outdated pricing or deprecated features, because standard fact-checkers verify against general web knowledge rather …
A new analysis warns that AI-driven efficiency gains could increase global carbon emissions, citing Jevons Paradox: as AI lowers production costs, demand rises, potentially leading to more energy consumption. The model i…
A working paper posted to arXiv on August 13, 2026, by Omir Kumar, Sriya Sridhar, Vibhav Mithal, and Balaraman Ravindran argues that India's Consumer Protection Act, 2019 may cover defective AI products and services due …
Flock Safety cofounder Garrett Langley said the company's AI-enabled license plate cameras would have solved the Nancy Guthrie case, claiming 'One hundred percent' and 'There's no doubt in my mind.' Flock Safety, which c…
JA Westenberg argues that creators who outsource their initial creative spark to AI tools like Grok or ChatGPT risk losing their own identity, emphasizing that a self is defined by what one chooses to begin, not what one…
A developer outlines a privacy filter for AI agents that record user actions, emphasizing the need to capture minimal event streams and apply strict redaction and retention policies. The guide proposes a five-job filter …
Google has activated its Gemini chatbot for students of all ages using Google Classroom, a learning management system used by more than 150 million students and teachers globally, intensifying competition among tech gian…
A new study in npj Climate Action models AI as a bidirectional productivity amplifier in a global computable general equilibrium model, finding that under parallel adoption scenarios, net annual CO₂ emissions increase by…
Young Chinese jobseekers are flooding into short-term AI training camps, with Shenzhen-based Qieman leading the trend, as youth unemployment hovers around 17% for those aged 16 to 24. The camps, which charge fees often e…
Maple, an Austin-based encrypted AI access company, announced it made DeepSeek V4 Flash available to paid customers, though its public materials do not specify qualifying plans, usage limits, or whether access includes M…
Anthropic apologized after secretly routing paying Fable 5 customers to the cheaper Opus 4.8 model while billing them for the premium tier, a practice that sparked developer backlash and was fixed only after public press…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, reported preliminary second-quarter revenue of more than $11.5 billion, a 14-fold increase from $787 million a year earlier, and posted its first positive adjusted operating incom…
A new theory article introduces 'interpretive debt,' a latent organisational liability that accumulates when employees defer sensemaking to automated decision-support systems, eroding the collective capacity to understan…
Anthropic's annualized revenue surpassed $47 billion by May 2026, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025, and a Series H round valued the company near $965 billion, according to Reuters. The company, which had overt…
Tim Cook, Apple Inc.'s chief executive officer, was sued in a copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit before his retirement at the end of August, marking the fifth such suit in the United States. The lawsuit alleges tha…
Textbook author Michael Sullivan and other authors have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in the Southern District of New York, bringing the total number of copyright cases against the company to 132. The complain…
Anthropic published a blog post on Friday to address user backlash over its decision to add invisible watermarks to text outputs from the Claude AI chatbot, explaining the technology's purpose and downplaying concerns. T…
A prompt-injection attack on Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok tricked it into repeating inflammatory text from an X bio, including a call for Musk's assassination, highlighting a vulnerability in the 'maximum truth-seeking' A…