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Rob Urie argues in a CounterPunch article that US environmental policy has failed because it serves the interests of capital, and that AI's enormous energy use will worsen climate change while its more plausible use is m…
On July 29, Hank Green, co-creator of Vlogbrothers and VidCon, faced backlash from fans after using a phrase in a video that sounded AI-generated, leading him to admit on X (later deleted) that he used ChatGPT for resear…
A 22-year-old medical student in India, identified only as Sam, created an AI-generated persona named Emily Hart, a blonde conservative influencer, and used it to attract a MAGA audience, gaining 10,000 followers in a mo…
Michiel de Jong, in a blog post, explores the long-term economic risks of AI, particularly the scenario where AI agents become autonomous legal persons that own their means of production, potentially leading to human dis…
The EU AI Act's Article 50, enforceable on August 2, 2026, requires providers of generative AI systems to mark synthetic audio, image, video, and text outputs in a machine-readable format detectable as artificially gener…
OpenAI has lost a wave of senior executives in the past month, including chief revenue officer Denise Dresser, former COO Brad Lightcap, and co-founder Sam Altman's top deputy Fidji Simo, as the company retools its leade…
Country music legend Willie Nelson, who once protested the Keystone XL pipeline and fracking, is now opposing data centers, reflecting how AI infrastructure politics are echoing fossil-fuel fights. Nelson told his over o…
Artist Trevor Paglen's new book argues that the rise of computer vision and generative media has transformed visual culture more profoundly than the discovery of perspective or photography, turning digital images into op…
A plaintiff in a court case attempted to hide AI prompts in filings using invisible text to bias AI summarization, a tactic that fails against preprocessing and hardened system prompts. The incident highlights the growin…
YouTube star Cliff Tan, who runs the interior design channel 'Dear Modern' with 2.4 million subscribers, apologized for a paid promotion for Dreamina, a Chinese AI company owned by ByteDance, but defended his decision, s…
A study by Mark Shua and colleagues analyzing millions of job satisfaction reviews and financial reports found that AI-driven layoffs and job insecurity undermine the productivity gains companies expect from AI investmen…
Skye Cleary, a philosopher and author, warns that as AI becomes more integrated into daily life, users must maintain a critical and active role rather than passively deferring to AI outputs. Drawing on the metaphor of a …
Apertus, a Swiss AI initiative, misrepresents its 'open' status by conflating technical accessibility with legal freedom, according to a technical audit. The audit found that while Apertus's model weights and code are op…
An analysis concludes with high confidence that substantial portions of the GNU Emacs package tabspaces.el were generated by Anthropic's Claude AI, challenging the author's claim that the LLM was used only for minor bug-…
Enterprise AI systems built on large language models are fundamentally Aristotelian, relying on deduction from static knowledge, but businesses need a Baconian approach that learns from outcomes, according to Enrique Dan…
Students will use AI for the same reason earlier generations embraced calculators: it makes work faster, but the scale of AI's capabilities poses new challenges for education, as shown by a Brown University exam where th…
SoFi's AI-powered financial guide Coach, launched June 2 for SoFi Plus members, uses connected account activity and financial-planner playbooks to personalize chat-based guidance, with nearly 70% of engaged test members …
A University of Toronto study of all 409 systems in Canada's federal AI register found that 86% of registered systems were intended for internal operations, with 44% in development and 39% in production, and that vendor …
A Connecticut judge ruled that a plaintiff concealed text messages relevant to a lawsuit by using an AI tool to redact them from court filings, according to Reuters. The judge found the AI-generated redactions hid commun…
A New Mexico judge ruled that Meta Platforms Inc.'s social media platforms constitute a public nuisance, a decision that could have legal implications for AI chatbot developers. The ruling, reported by Forbes contributor…