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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…
AI translation is scaling faster than governance controls, creating a transparency gap for enterprises under regulatory scrutiny. THG Fluently advocates for 'Glass Box AI' with traceability, measurability, governance, an…
Elena Verna calls out AI confidence theater in the 551st edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, urging teams to demonstrate real workflows. The newsletter also features advice from Teresa Torres and Petra Will…
A software engineer who uses LLMs daily argues against fears of AI-induced deskilling, reporting that an honest audit of their own habits found no erosion of core skills despite widespread anxiety in the tech community.
Amazon's AI data center expansion drove a record 16% rise in greenhouse gas emissions and a 34% jump in electricity use in 2025, according to its latest environmental report. The company's total emissions hit an all-time…
The Verge staff published their annual summer 'in' and 'out' list, featuring cultural and tech trends such as motion sickness glasses, fiber, bootleg sports merch, and floating in water as 'in,' while AI 'pervert' glasse…
A new position paper on using formal methods for AI security focuses on model weight confidentiality and integrity through infrastructure hardening, with a minimal and uncontroversial approach. The UK's Advanced Research…
Former MIT AI Lab researcher Richard Stallman convinced the author that open source software accelerates progress, a lesson now threatened as AI companies close their most advanced models. The author warns that locking A…
Midjourney released a behind-the-scenes video of its full-body ultrasound scanner, showing the machine's hardware assembly but not providing clinical validation data. CEO David Holz said the company's lack of investors a…
Alibaba banned Anthropic's Claude Code from internal environments starting July 10, 2026, citing the risk of embedded backdoors due to the tool's deep system access and communication with U.S.-hosted servers. The decisio…
Two San Francisco tech founders, Elliot Roth and William Joy, attempted to implant a cockroach control kit into lobsters to allow an AI agent called OpenClaw to control their nervous systems, but all the lobsters died be…
Hundreds gathered in Tompkins Square Park for the Summer of Ludd festival, featuring a play about the Luddite movement and activities promoting offline community, as Gen Z channels rage against Big Tech into a week of ph…
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is creating unpredictable, rapidly fluctuating electricity demand that challenges grid stability, according to experts. Unlike traditional industrial loads, AI training and infere…
Google's electricity demand surged 37% year-over-year and greenhouse gas emissions rose 18% in 2024, driven by its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout, according to the company's latest environmental impact report. The…
AI researcher Sasha Luccioni argues that data centers, often vilified as environmental villains, can be made sustainable through smarter design, local energy solutions, and regulatory mandates. She highlights strategies …
Beneficial State Bank, a certified B Corporation, is piloting AI-assisted credit decisioning tools to reduce bias in lending, despite ethical concerns about AI's environmental and social costs. The bank's use of Stratyfy…
AI red teaming and AI penetration testing are distinct adversarial practices that target different weaknesses in generative AI systems. AI penetration testing seeks defects in the surrounding infrastructure, such as APIs…