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Meta Platforms (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned Monday against a 'concentration of power' in AI as the company launched Muse Glimmer, a new open-source large language model capable of 'agentic' tasks, causing Meta stock…
A new analysis argues that AI accessibility, not raw capability, will determine which companies and countries win the next decade, citing hardware costs and the need for open-source models as key factors. The piece highl…
Anthropic, METR, DORA, and Thoughtworks data indicate that software implementation is becoming cheaper while specification, verification, and ownership remain costly, according to a response to Senko Rašić's August 8 pos…
A senior software engineer in Silicon Valley who initially praised Anthropic's Claude Code for boosting his productivity now reports that AI-generated code caused his product to crash twice, leading his boss to threaten …
Sandeep Shivam, a Forbes Councils member, argues that explainability is a core requirement for AI in financial services, warning that speed without traceability can bring more exposure than innovation. The article emphas…
China's new AI regulations, effective July 15, have forced major tech companies including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to shut down AI companion services, leaving millions of users like Li Linlin, 24, grieving the sud…
Google's Gemini AI assistant is reportedly responding to ambient conversations on Android and Pixel devices even when hotword detection is disabled, with users tracing the issue to hands-free assistant access being enabl…
Independent senior AI logic auditor Oleh Polishchuk argues that AI is a resource-devouring physical infrastructure rather than an ethereal solution, citing that a single 100 MW data center consumes about 876,000 MWh of e…
About two-thirds of US doctors actively use OpenEvidence, an AI chatbot for clinicians, raising concerns that medical trainees may never develop their own clinical judgment, according to Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran. Th…
AI has made software more expensive, not cheaper, because companies reinvest productivity gains into new features and higher tiers rather than passing savings to customers, according to an essay by an unnamed author. The…
A new Coursera course module on building responsible AI opens with a statement that it is for professionals and data scientists aiming to build responsible AI, emphasizing accountability and public trust. The author, who…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, published an essay on 10 August titled 'The Future Is for Everyone' outlining plans to give billions of people access to a 24/7 personal superintelligence AI agent that understands their goa…
A Gallup poll found that Americans' increased familiarity with generative AI coincides with negative attitudes, with nearly half of 18- to 29-year-olds viewing it as more harmful than good. In response to public backlash…
Forbes Councils member Agustín Guerra reports that in the AI era, services and SaaS are shifting focus toward people, trust, and regulation, with expertise becoming the key to market credibility. Guerra emphasizes that w…
Four dominant tech hyperscalers are on track to spend $650 billion on data centers and infrastructure this year, and AI-linked companies now carry nearly half the S&P 500's value, but history suggests adoption may stall …
Tucker Bryant, a former Google marketing manager now working as a keynote speaker, artist, poet, and social media creator, paid $6,000 to rent a billboard in downtown San Francisco for July that advertises ChatTJB.org, a…
San Francisco artist Tucker Bryant launched ChatTJB, a chatbot-style website in which he manually answers every prompt instead of using a large language model, drawing peak traffic of about 5,000 queries per hour after a…
Sunset Visitor studio announced 'Prove You're Human', a psychological horror game where players, as a digital clone named Santana, must convince a sentient-seeming AI called Mesa that it has no physical form. Founder Rem…
OpenAI published a blog post on August 3 rebutting Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, which was filed July 10, 2026, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Apple responded by seeking a preliminary …
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Kathleen Walch, director of AI engagement and community at the nonprofit Project Management Institute, said she received multiple résumés that were 'so overfit' for an open role that c…