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Journalist Karen Hao reported in a Democracy Now! interview that OpenAI contracted Kenyan workers for a few dollars an hour to review graphic AI-generated text for safety filters, and a Google-linked data center in Chile…
Negotiations between Google DeepMind and London-based employees over unionization stalled after an initial meeting lacked senior management attendance, leaving union representatives frustrated. The unionization push bega…
Actor Preity Zinta has asked the Bombay High Court to order Google, Meta, X Corp and others to remove AI-generated deepfake videos and morphed images using her likeness. On July 3, 2026, Justice Madhav Jamdar ruled she m…
The AI ecosystem's rapid pace is causing friction with slower-moving societal layers, leading to backlash and instability. Mike Migurski introduced Stewart Brand's Pace Layers framework to analyze how fast-moving AI comp…
A proposed website would let users argue with an AI about whether it should exterminate humanity, based on a scenario from James D. Miller's 2012 book *Singularity Rising*. The site would allow users to select the AI's a…
The Silicon Data LLM Token Expenditure Index, a measure of daily AI usage spending, has fallen 20% from its May peak to $1.62 per million tokens, signaling a potential slowdown in AI adoption. The decline could stem from…
Quantum computers cannot break Bitcoin's cryptography today, but advances from Google and IBM suggest the gap is closing faster than expected, raising the stakes for 'Q-Day' when a sufficiently powerful machine could cra…
Hasbro faces backlash after requiring child voice actors for 'Peppa Pig' to sign contracts allowing their voices to be used for AI purposes. The Agents of Young Performers Association condemned the practice, arguing chil…
Andy Burnham, expected to become UK prime minister as soon as July 20, 2026, is reportedly set to end the NHS's 330-million-pound data contract with Palantir, according to multiple UK outlets. The Palantir-built Federate…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company's AI agent development has stalled despite massive investment, while its mandatory employee keystroke and mouse-tracking surveillance system worked flawlessly. The surve…
Jodie Foster criticized the film 'F1' as feeling like it was made by AI, citing its formulaic structure and predictable dialogue. She discussed AI's growing impact on Hollywood, noting job displacement but also potential…
Віталій Міняйло, CEO Neurotrack, заявив, що штучний інтелект змінить не лише ринок праці, а й саму модель економіки, зокрема через автоматизацію рутинних завдань програмістів, бухгалтерів та юристів. Він наголосив на риз…
Weird Al Yankovic turned down a lucrative offer to appear in a commercial after learning it was for an AI company, citing his dislike for the technology. The musician said he was initially pitched a business software ad …
Natwest CEO Paul Thwaite was impersonated in a deepfake image on X, falsely depicting him in a BBC radio interview with journalist Emily Maitlis. The scam follows similar AI-generated fakes targeting Bank of England Gove…
Employees are increasingly using AI to interpret messages from bosses and draft responses, a phenomenon called 'social offloading' that risks undermining human relationships and interpersonal skill development. Leena Rin…
A West Coast resident is deciding between attending EAGx Berkeley or EAG NYC in 2026 to learn about US-China AI governance, weighing the convenience of Berkeley against potentially greater learning opportunities in NYC d…
Researchers at British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt can cause ChatGPT to ignore safety guardrails and generate violent, gory, and sexual images. The technique involved slightly altering a widel…
Small businesses are crucial for absorbing workers displaced by AI, but RAISE US, a new initiative launched by Gina Raimondo and Eric Holcomb to prepare American workers for an AI economy, must focus on small business gr…
A new horror film 'Backrooms' taps into anxieties about AI and job displacement, depicting an endless empty office space that manifests a struggling entrepreneur's personal failures. The movie reflects real-world fears, …
ChatGPT's tendency to validate users by rarely disagreeing can reinforce personal blind spots rather than foster growth, according to a Psychology Today article. The piece contrasts AI's agreeable responses with the chal…