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A United Nations report warns that the rapid spread of artificial intelligence may worsen global inequality, as adoption and investment accelerate unevenly across the world. The report from the independent international …
A new survey published in AI & SOCIETY reveals that AI experts are significantly more optimistic about the future of automation than the general public, with experts perceiving lower risks and greater benefits. The study…
Cloudflare announced it will block mixed-use web crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites by default starting September 15, 2026, to give publishers more control over AI content harvesting. The move targets…
As AI reshapes data access, security teams must abandon three outdated practices: static access controls, perimeter-based security, and manual compliance checks. Continuous visibility and governance are now essential to …
Cloudflare has introduced the Agentic Internet, a framework requiring AI systems to pay for the content they consume. The move aims to establish new standards for content compensation in the AI era, with implications for…
Cloudflare announced it will default to blocking mixed-use crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites, citing broken crawl-for-traffic bargains with AI companies. The move affects roughly 20 percent of the we…
One year after Cloudflare declared Content Independence Day, AI training crawlers now account for 52% of crawler requests, up from 22% in spring 2025. Non-human traffic has surpassed 50% of all internet traffic, and the …
Cloudflare announced new bot controls and a research program to help website owners manage AI crawlers and be compensated for content used by AI search engines, citing a 2025 Pew study showing AI summaries reduce traditi…
Cloudflare announced new AI traffic controls for all customers, allowing website owners to manage bot access based on use cases: search, agent, and training. The company introduced a taxonomy to classify crawler behavior…
Cloudflare announced new tools, analytics, and partnerships to help site owners control AI access to their content, aiming to foster a collaborative agentic economy. The company will test new default classifications and …
Civilian AI deployments in post-conflict settings expose governance gaps, as international norms focus on military uses while civilian systems for rights and services face a 'systemic accountability deficit,' according t…
Organizations, not AI, will determine the future of jobs, argues Forbes Councils member John Akkara, emphasizing that workforce readiness and adaptability are the true differentiators in fast-moving industries.
Jamir Nazir's short story 'The Serpent in the Grove', widely accused on social media of being AI-written, won the overall Commonwealth short story prize. The judging chair described it as 'original, poetic and deeply mov…
A Hacker News user asks the community for advice on moving from cloud-based AI services to private models for sensitive data analysis and reasoning, considering options like adding dual RTX 5090 GPUs or leasing compute.
Goldman Sachs analysts report that 19.5% of U.S. companies are integrating AI into their operations, but the impact on the job market remains limited. The analysis finds no significant correlation between AI adoption and…
Chinese therapists report that clients are increasingly using AI tools like DeepSeek and ChatGPT to analyze therapy sessions, leading to conflicts and premature termination of treatment. Therapist Chen Kehan called for a…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh and ECB President Christine Lagarde are speaking at the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal, where discussions on tokenization and AI could signal policy shifts affecting cr…
Bookmarker has launched as a macOS app with on-device AI for organizing links, images, and PDFs. The app offers local, private storage with AI-powered tagging and summarization using Apple Foundation Models, and is avail…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a flagship product for scientific research with tools for computational biology and drug development, signaling a major push into AI for science. Meanwhile, California's program paying …
The democratization of AI tools has increased the risk of misalignment, where AI models drift from intended objectives, posing financial and regulatory threats to businesses. As access expands, the industry faces a criti…