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Netflix's 'Black Mirror' has inspired a list of 10 similarly tech-dystopian shows, including 'Love, Death & Robots,' 'Severance,' and 'Years and Years,' as the real world increasingly mirrors its themes. The list, publis…
A developer audited ten websites they scrape for AI-related content and found that only two had licenses permitting commercial reuse, despite several having permissive robots.txt files. The audit revealed that robots.txt…
Apple is developing an iOS feature called 'Apple Reference Image' that will embed provenance metadata into iPhone photos at capture, allowing users to verify images aren't deepfakes. The feature, found in iOS 27 beta 5, …
A UK GP, Dr. Kaye, reports that two of her patients received dangerous medical advice from AI chatbots, which failed to identify symptoms of cervical and ovarian cancer, delaying diagnosis and putting their lives at risk…
OpenWALDO, a new open-source artificial intelligence project sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc., launched today, led by Gregory Kutzer, founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS and Apptainer, to build a community-led, open-source-governed …
A study of more than 15 large language models by Dr. Filippo Menczer of Indiana University Bloomington found that AI fact-checking tools are less accurate than human fact-checkers but can achieve 98-99% accuracy when giv…
Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise now integrates Looker's governed semantic layer to provide trusted, deterministic answers to natural-language queries over structured enterprise data, reducing AI hallucinations and incon…
Queen guitarist Brian May, 79, shared a Meta AI-generated recreation of the band's 1980 album The Game cover on Instagram, which incorrectly showed five members including Spike Edney, and used it to argue against AI, say…
Artist Jiabao Li's solo show 'Womb Wetware' explores the invisible scars and emotional labor of motherhood, and the forces that seek to regulate the female body, using AI to question whether a machine that remembers ever…
The Justice Department unbanned TikTok on government devices last month, allowing federal agencies to use the app after an Oracle-led group took over U.S. operations, but experts warn of significant security risks. Agenc…
Anthropic, the maker of Claude, restricted sales to unsupported regions in September 2025 and announced in April 2026 it would use Persona's ID verification for some new accounts to combat fraudulent signups that drive a…
A commentary by Professor K. Sudhir argues that AI's ability to handle entry-level tasks threatens the development of junior employees' judgment and skills, as the practice that once came with producing deliverables no l…
Chloé Bakalar, OpenAI's AI ethics lead, left the company in July after less than a year, and the Financial Times reports she has not been replaced, making her departure the latest in a series of safety-related exits. Bak…
Badlands and Toad Hall, two popular gay bars in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, paused their use of Patronscan Guard+, an AI-assisted ID verification reader, after community pushback over the weekend. The bars halte…
At least two sheriff's offices in South Florida have purchased Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, according to records obtained by the Miami New Times through Florida's Sunshine laws. The Broward County Sheriff's Office bought the…
CTO Advisor Keith Townsend says 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to return anything, and the failure occurs at the agentic AI reasoning plane, not at the model or data levels. Townsend, who moved a production AI system…
CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record closing highs on Monday, August 10, 2026, as investors bet on AI-driven security demand following Black Hat USA 2026. CrowdStrike rose 5.01% to $225.16, and Palo Alto Network…
A TransUnion study of 100 senior marketing and technology leaders at major U.S. brands reveals a 'confidence-readiness paradox': 89% expect AI-enabled marketing investment to grow over the next 12 to 24 months and 64% ar…
Google LLC and Meta Platforms Inc. each shipped AI tools that could fabricate evidence and pulled them within days amid fraud concerns, according to digital forensics expert Lars Daniel. Google removed AI image generatio…
Anthropic's Claude Code v2.1.212 on macOS in IntelliJ IDEA terminal sent a user's real email address as the User-Agent string in a curl command without explicit confirmation, according to GitHub issue #78431 filed by a u…