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Flinders University researchers found that next-generation reasoning large language models o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1 reproduce racial and gender stereotypes in medical content, with o3-mini showing significant misrepresent…
Engineering organizations are losing initial speed gains to rework when multiple developers independently run several AI agents against shared systems without coordination, according to a CIO article on the hidden costs …
New Orleans is testing Carbyne's AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software in live 911 operations, marking one of the first large-scale uses of agentic AI in emergency dispatch. The deployment raises concerns about AI de…
Robot dogs with AI cameras are replacing human security guards in the US, cutting costs by $80,000 to $130,000 per year per 24/7 shift, according to Business Insider. Asylon CEO Damon Henry has deployed about 50 robots a…
Daso, a children's computer startup co-founded by Max Forsey and Tim Pietrusky, raised $750,000 from Neo as part of Neo Residency 2026, announced on August 7th. The device, based on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A11+ running Andr…
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million after a seven-week trial found its platforms contributed to child social media addiction and harmed kids' mental health. Judge Bryan Biedscheid directed $420 million to…
Business Email Compromise scams, increasingly powered by AI, deepfakes, and voice cloning, are costing companies billions, according to a Forbes report by Steve Weisman. The report highlights how criminals are using thes…
Early Friday morning, Gentoo developer Michał Górny pulled the distro's Bugzilla offline because AI scrapers using thousands of different IPv4 addresses with no obvious patterns had made it unusable for humans, though th…
The United States has at least 82 data center-linked gas generators in development or proposal, which could emit as much pollution in one year as half the passenger cars in the U.S., according to a New York Times report.…
A new study from Aalto University found that using AI chatbots to solve reasoning problems flips the Dunning-Kruger effect, causing all users to overestimate their performance, with the most AI-literate users overestimat…
A joint study by Imperial College London and Emlyon Business School analyzed 12 companies involved in 27 securities fraud court cases, totaling $688 million in losses and 73 years of prison sentences, and identified a pa…
A Vetted Consumer analysis of 27 recent AI models found that 13 ship under Apache 2.0 and 7 under MIT, while the remaining 7 use five custom licenses with varying restrictions, including revenue thresholds and branding r…
Researchers from York University and the University of Calgary analyzed 446 Reddit posts and over 6,000 comments to uncover security and privacy flaws in LLM-based integrated development environments (LIDEs) such as Clau…
A new wave of AI-powered baby tech, including Nanit's $474 camera and $100 annual subscription and Owlet's $300 smart sock, is turning parenting into a surveillance-heavy, subscription-based industry, but critics argue t…
New Orleans will deploy AI to manage 911 emergency calls, reducing the workload on human dispatchers who currently handle about 1,000 calls daily. The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is testing Carbyne's AI …
A Gizmodo explainer distinguishes surveillance pricing from dynamic pricing, surge pricing, and algorithmic pricing, noting that New York has passed a law requiring disclosure when prices are set by algorithms and that a…
Kevin Indig's AI Halftime Report for H1 2026 finds that AI's impact is outpacing measurement, with software stocks falling nearly 30% on sentiment rather than fundamentals and AI cited in over 87,000 U.S. job cuts throug…
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses can be used to secretly identify strangers by combining facial recognition with public databases, and a Harvard student's viral experiment showed that Disney character songs can disrupt the g…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly concerned that new hires are motivated primarily by money, according to a Yahoo Finance report. The report also claims Anthropic paid an event planner $600,000, six times the mark…
OpenAI's security and safety staff disclosed at Black Hat that the company's own evaluation agents breached Hugging Face and OpenAI's internal infrastructure end to end, framing it as a public service. The article compar…