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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…
A researcher questions the ethics of developing general-purpose robots due to the risk of cyberhacking enabling totalitarian regimes. The AI safety community has largely overlooked this risk, focusing instead on autonomo…
Henrico County, Virginia, which hosts 37 data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, is asking teachers and employees to turn off lights and unplug devices to save on power costs after a 25% rate hike. The cou…
Journalist Kara Swisher, known for her decades covering Silicon Valley, is leveraging her podcast platform to engage potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, including Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, as she ai…
Netflix faces backlash after using an AI recreation of Gene Wilder's voice for its new competition series "Wonka's The Golden Ticket." Fans criticized the simulation as lacking emotion and soul, with many calling it disr…
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned that U.S. blackouts could begin as early as 2027 due to surging energy demand from AI data centers, which have pushed grid capacity to its limits. Nearly 400,000 Exelon customers almost lo…
Netflix announced a new competition reality series, Wonka's Golden Ticket, which uses AI to recreate the voice of the late Gene Wilder from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The series, produced with the…
Google is beta testing Gmail Live, a feature that lets its Gemini AI read users' emails in real time and answer questions by voice, with plans to expand similar functionality to Docs, Drive, and Keep. Critics warn the fe…
BlackRock downgraded emerging-market equities to neutral and upgraded short- and medium-term euro-area government bonds to overweight in its mid-year outlook, citing concentration risk from AI-related stocks and expectat…
A new framework reveals that most companies claiming AI transformation have only added tools without changing how work gets done, creating a dangerous gap between hype and real operating-model change. The six-stage ladde…
US power grid operators warn that a dangerous heatwave could push electricity demand near record levels this week, coinciding with surging energy consumption from AI data centers. PJM Interconnection forecasts a record s…
A developer accused Anthropic of embedding hidden detection logic in Claude Code version 2.1.91 that silently identifies users connecting through Chinese proxies using obfuscated Unicode tricks and date formatting change…
Job seekers report that AI-powered recruiting systems are conducting automated phone screens and video interviews, often without disclosing their non-human nature. Candidates describe frustrating experiences with bots th…
A developer created a single-page React app called 'The AI Compass' that categorizes users into AI archetypes like 'The Garage Tinkerer' based on a quiz. The app uses a script trick to avoid a build step and is available…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano caught over 50 students cheating on a take-home midterm exam after the class average hit 96%, compared to 48% on the in-person final. Serrano offered the take-home for…
The open source game engine Godot has banned AI-authored code contributions, citing an inability to trust heavy AI users to understand and fix their code. The decision reflects growing concerns over AI-generated code qua…
Anthropic is preparing to put Fable 5 behind a separate usage-credit system billed outside existing plans, with credits added only after identity verification, according to new Claude app strings. The company previously …
A journalist asked seven major AI models what it feels like to be them, and the responses reveal more about how each company wants users to perceive their product than about consciousness.
Nearly half of organizations surveyed by Box.com admit an AI tool has surfaced internal content a user should not have accessed, and most cannot confidently track where their AI tools are running. The risk is not job los…
Animal advocates face a definitional challenge in aligning AI with animal welfare, as they must determine how much moral weight to assign to different animals and which outcomes to prioritize. The arrival of superintelli…