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Netflix faces backlash for using an AI-generated voice resembling Gene Wilder in its new competition show 'Wonka's The Golden Ticket.' Fans slammed the AI voice as an 'obscenity,' criticizing its lack of emotion and dept…
LiveKit released a guide on building a HIPAA-compliant voice agent that keeps protected health information (PHI) within a self-hosted boundary, ensuring data never leaves the organization's infrastructure.
An Associated Press and FRONTLINE investigation reveals that American AI models, internet infrastructure, and Starlink are powering a global scam industry based in Myanmar, where trafficked workers use AI tools to target…
A KFF poll of 2,480 US adults found that frequent use of AI chatbots for health advice is correlated with belief in anti-vaccine myths, including false claims that vaccines cause autism or that the measles vaccine is mor…
Sen. Mark Warner unveiled the AI AGENT Act discussion draft on June 29, 2026, proposing an FTC registry for trusted AI agents and fiduciary-like duties for consumer protection. The draft targets large platforms with over…
Grindr CEO George Arison announced plans to make the dating app an AI-native company by imposing AI adoption on staff, hiring an AI tutor, and aiming for AI-generated code despite employee opposition and past privacy iss…
A guide advises workers to feign enthusiasm for AI to appease bosses suffering from 'AI psychosis,' recommending quick responses to AI-related messages and avoiding criticism. The author argues that career survival depen…
Colorado's Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 24-205) took effect June 30, 2026, imposing duties of reasonable care, disclosure, documentation, risk management, and consumer notice on developers and…
A critic argues that large language models and AI systems cannot fulfill their hype because their 99% reliability is insufficient for tasks requiring trust, as humans must verify outputs, creating a bottleneck that limit…
The internet's reliability as a repository of knowledge is threatened by a flood of disinformation and AI-generated content, known as AI slop, which makes it increasingly difficult to find accurate information. Psycholog…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano uncovered what he calls the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history after 40 of 86 students scored a perfect 100 on a take-home exam, while the same students averaged …
A growing number of corporate managers are using AI tools like ChatGPT to make career-altering decisions, including promotions, raises, and layoffs, often without formal training. Employees report that bosses blindly fol…
Anthropic's new AI model Mythos (Fable) is reportedly only marginally better than Claude Opus at coding tasks, with improvements largely attributed to higher compute demands and costs, according to sources cited from Cal…
Neon is nearing a deal to acquire Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project, citing it would be better served by a different studio. The $40 million film…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project days after announcin…
A new study by Harvard economist Rebecca Diamond finds that women taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are significantly more likely to gain employment, with the employment rate rising 27 percentage points after about 18 month…
Creative Commons co-founders Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Molly Van Houweling reflected on the organization's 25-year history during a fireside chat at the AI Impact Summit, recalling how a small bet on open licensi…
A new report proposes the Multi-Sovereign AI Deterrence Strategy (MSADS) to govern the transition to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which could arrive before 2030 and create catastrophic risks. The strategy invol…
A user reports that installing the Cursor iOS app irreversibly changed their privacy setting from the strict 'Privacy Mode (Legacy)' to a less restrictive mode, and the original option disappeared from menus. Cursor supp…
Meta introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, an AI system that decodes brain activity into text using non-invasive MEG scans, achieving 78% word accuracy in experiments with healthy volunteers. The research aims to help patients wit…