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A permanent freezing in of wealth is just one of many possible artificial superintelligence (ASI) scenarios, according to an analysis that assigns it a likelihood well below 50%. The scenario assumes ASI eliminates the v…
AI labs such as OpenAI and Google are amassing influence comparable to national governments by designing the operating systems for labor and cognition, according to an analysis of AI deployment patterns. The shift from c…
The European Commission began enforcing Article 50 transparency requirements of the EU AI Act on August 2, 2026, requiring all chatbots, AI agents, and AI-generated content reaching EU users to clearly disclose AI involv…
A study by researchers at Northeastern University and international institutions found that AI chatbots are significantly better than humans at executing 'pig butchering' scams, with 47% of participants falling for the A…
A Super PAC supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Senate campaign has released a $10 million AI-generated remake of the infamous 1964 'Daisy' attack ad, targeting Representative James Talarico's support for tran…
A visit to Slough Trading Estate, home to western Europe's densest cluster of datacentres, highlights the environmental toll of AI, with residents and workers reporting heat and noise, and Cambridge University research s…
A study by I. Mostowicz, published in the 2026 Springer volume 'AI generating New Habits. Critical Reflections', argues that ChatGPT's convenience may reduce meaningful social contact and undermine independent critical r…
A developer argues that AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor are eroding developer agency by encouraging cognitive offloading and the illusion of competence. The article warns that accepting AI-generat…
Elon Musk and other tech leaders may be misreading science fiction's warnings about AI, according to a new analysis that argues automated governance threatens democratic processes by replacing human debate with technical…
A developer working on the Algebraic Architecture Theory (AAT) research project has introduced a philosophy section into the project's AGENTS.md file, outlining ethical and methodological principles for AI agents. The ph…
A security researcher discovered a poorly designed ransomware app disguised as an AI teaching app for high school students, distributed via a Facebook post as a 76 KB APK. The ransomware demands $300 in Bitcoin and threa…
Bret Stephens' New York Times opinion piece 'I'm Begging You: Never Write With A.I.' argues that writing with AI is 'mentally enfeebling,' but Brad Feld, writing on his blog, counters that such arguments are at least 2,4…
California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942) became enforceable on August 2, 2026, requiring generative AI systems with over one million monthly California users to embed machine-readable provenance data in AI-generated con…
Eryk Salvaggio, a researcher and educator, released a 15-minute video talk titled 'Slop Infrastructures' that examines the pipeline of AI-generated 'slop' as an interconnected social-technical system combining generative…
China's Ministry of Commerce released a 40-page policy paper on August 9, 2026, defending its manufacturing sector against 'so-called excess capacity' accusations, while Beijing announced fresh export controls on drones …
A developer argues that forcing LLMs to disclose their AI nature in every interaction harms specialized agentic workflows and roleplay, proposing aggressive system prompts to bypass identity disclosures. The author claim…
Oleh Polishchuk, a senior subject matter expert in AI training and evaluation, has issued a manifesto criticizing the AI industry's focus on scaling parameters and massive infrastructure spending, which he says has led t…
USA Today Co, the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., announced a partnership with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences, as revealed in its second quarter earnings call. CEO Mike Reed said the…
A retrospective series on AI alignment argues that the field has shifted from pursuing deep scientific progress to iteratively improving existing systems and seeking technological and political power, inadvertently accel…
A June preprint by Wenbin Wu and co-authors found that leading language models ranked Bitcoin around fifth among eight forms of money in ordinary contexts but moved it toward the top when prompts introduced crises or aut…