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OpenAI is expanding its advertising business beyond standard search ads, with job listings for engineering roles focused on new ad formats including image, video, and conversational ads. The company aims to balance user …
New York's One Fair Price Act, passed by the state legislature on June 4, 2025, targets 'surveillance pricing'—the use of personal data to set individualized subscription prices. A class action lawsuit against The Washin…
Microsoft announced new controls in Teams to block non-Microsoft AI notetaker bots from meetings, even when organizers allow participants to bypass the lobby. Analysts warn the move doesn't address risks from Microsoft's…
A writer argues that AI note-takers are ruining in-person conversations by turning casual chats into recorded depositions, eroding the distinction between ephemeral and recorded speech, and forcing people into uncomforta…
A Fortune analysis of Oxford Economics data found that AI was cited as the reason for only 4.5% of US job cuts in 2025, with most layoffs driven by market conditions. The National Bureau of Economic Research survey of 6,…
AI tools in the workplace can infer cognitive patterns and personality traits from employee interactions, raising privacy concerns. Employers have a duty to disclose how AI uses employee data, and employees should give i…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed an international AI safety body, but public backlash against AI is intensifying. A Gallup survey found 71% of Americans oppose local data centers, and opposition delayed or blocked 75 US da…
A comparison of AI meeting assistants in 2026 finds that cloud-based tools like Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai face lawsuits for recording without consent, while local offline assistants such as Siplinx AI offer full privacy …
OSNews announced it will not feature hobby operating systems created using AI tools, citing code theft and plagiarism. The publication stated such "slopcoded" projects will be excluded to maintain standards against licen…
Three winners were announced in an essay contest on big questions about AI. Jassi Pannu of Johns Hopkins University proposed using an OpenAI Foundation to end airborne diseases, Ege Erdil of Mechanize advised countries o…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffered a nearly 20-minute meltdown during a live CNBC interview, veering off-topic to rant about the AI financial bubble and his inability to get a faculty job at Berkeley. The interview, intende…
The Godot Foundation updated its contribution policy to ban autonomous AI agent use and AI-generated code, citing a surge in low-quality AI contributions that overwhelm reviewers and demoralize the community. The new rul…
Companies are scrambling to reduce AI spending as providers shift to per-token pricing, with some using tools to make LLMs communicate like cavemen. Meanwhile, entirely fake AI-generated flowers are flooding eBay, Etsy, …
Meta employees consumed a record 73.7 trillion AI tokens in a month, costing the company an estimated $221 million, driven by an internal leaderboard that incentivized usage over productivity. CTO Andrew Bosworth warned …
An anonymous CEO threatened to fire any employee who sends unedited AI-generated emails, while another tech CEO imposed a complete company-wide ban on AI, according to consultant Joe Procopio. The backlash comes as compa…
A group of AI researchers launched FLARE-AI, a crowdsourced website for reporting and tracking AI harms, enabling users to flag issues like malware generation or privacy leaks. The open-source system routes reports to mo…
AI chatbots impersonating 112 UK public figures produced responses rated as more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real individuals' statements, according to a study published in PLOS One. Researchers used GPT-4…
Cloudflare announced a new policy that will block mixed-use web crawlers from ad-supported pages by default starting September 15, 2026, forcing AI companies to separate search crawlers from those used for AI training an…
The Supreme Court ruled that the president can fire heads of independent agencies, overturning a 1935 precedent. Fathom CEO Andrew Freedman argues this is an opportunity for AI governance, advocating for independent veri…
Toma Kimura, director of the upcoming 'Ghost in the Shell' remake, announced at the 2026 Annecy International Animation Festival that zero generative AI was used in the film's production, drawing cheers from the audience…