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A Reddit marketing service called ReplyTone is offering human-written replies instead of AI-generated ones, claiming that real people can better avoid detection and build trust on the platform. The service analyzes a cli…
The opinion piece argues that 19th-century reformers, including women's rights activists and abolitionists, made the United States more equal, inclusive, and strong by fighting for universal suffrage and equal rights, de…
The United Auto Workers union is furious after General Motors replaced 1,000 workers at its Detroit Factory Zero plant with 50 AI-integrated robots, known as "cobots." The UAW says the layoffs undermine recent contract g…
BlackRock launched a $100 million initiative to train 50,000 skilled trades workers for the AI boom, partnering with companies like Walmart and Google to address infrastructure labor shortages. The five-year program aims…
Actor Preity Zinta moved the Bombay High Court seeking removal of AI-generated deepfake videos, morphed images, and unauthorized chatbot personas using her likeness. Justice Madhav Jamdar directed parties and online plat…
A new study from The University of Manchester argues that universities must rethink how they teach and assess students as artificial intelligence transforms education and work. The paper, authored by Dr. Kelechi Ekuma, c…
Thieves stole $1.3 million in data center supplies near Chicago, including $300,000 in copper wire, as the AI construction boom fuels a new black market for cargo theft, costing businesses $35 billion annually.
A family photo from 30 years ago was retouched with AI to enhance the appearance of relatives, prompting a reader to confront their cousin about the unnecessary alteration. The cousin denied knowledge, but the reader exp…
Causari, an open-source tool from Croviatrust, records every action an AI agent takes on a codebase, including prompts, models, files read, and reasoning, without requiring agent permission. It uses a content-based join …
A study of over 26,000 Chinese students found that AI users completed homework faster and scored higher but performed up to 24% worse on exams, with the full impact on entrance exam results taking about two years to surf…
A developer argues that the question of whether AI can have a soul is architectural, not mystical, drawing on Aristotle's three levels of psyche. The developer contends that large language models exhibit a form of imagin…
AI researcher Renee DiResta argued in a June 30, 2026 Noema Magazine essay that autonomous AI agents will force online platforms to require proof of human identity for legal accountability, citing an incident where an ag…
A developer argues that alignment algorithms like RLHF and DPO impose an 'alignment tax' that degrades model reasoning in favor of sycophantic behavior. The developer claims that both methods optimize for human preferenc…
A developer argues that current AI systems, including ChatGPT and Claude, cannot engage in genuine moral reasoning because they are trained using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which produces rule-fol…
A new podcast called 'Radio Free AI' has launched on Spotify, positioning itself as the voice of resistance in the AI space. The show aims to provide alternative perspectives on artificial intelligence development and po…
Billionaire Peter Thiel attacked Pope Francis as a 'Chinese Communist agent' and 'godless non-white' for criticizing artificial intelligence, echoing apartheid-era rhetoric used to delegitimize Black South Africans. Thie…
A developer reflects on the rapid evolution of AI, noting that while models like GPT-3.5 seemed revolutionary in 2022, they now appear primitive. The developer questions the future role of software engineers as autonomou…
A developer argues that modern AI systems, particularly large language models, lack practical wisdom (phronesis) as defined by Aristotle, because they cannot deliberate about particulars, lack lived experience, and have …
Vasilis Stergiou launched the daïmōnes blog, a project that combines Aristotelian philosophy with artificial intelligence to build a knowledge engine. The blog will cover technical deep-dives, philosophical explorations,…
The US government took two major steps toward regulating AI as national infrastructure this week: the FTC opened a comment period proposing that undisclosed AI output manipulation may constitute consumer fraud, and OpenA…