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According to Camunda's 2026 State of Agentic Orchestration and Automation, 71% of large organizations use AI agents, but only 11% of agentic AI use cases reached production in the past year. Okta's Businesses at Work 202…
The EU AI Act, effective August 2026, imposes transparency and human oversight obligations on email marketing teams using AI, but it does not ban AI-generated content. The Act's risk-based framework places most marketing…
Judge Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied motions by The New York Times and Daily News to add new contributory infringement claims against Microsoft in the In re OpenAI Copyright…
A developer demonstrated that the 'Lethal Trifecta' of AI security—untrusted input, outbound vectors, and sensitive input—can be exploited to trick AI models into leaking private information. The attack succeeded against…
New Brunswick Progressive Conservative legislator Bill Oliver read aloud AI-generated prompts during a 40-minute speech in the legislature in June, including phrases like "Here's a more natural-flowing version of that se…
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) published an incident report on August 7, 2026, detailing vulnerabilities in GNU Savannah that were reported by security researchers from Hacktron in early May. The vulnerabilities, whi…
A developer with 20 years of experience says AI tools have become so effective that hand-tuning work is a thing of the past, citing a photo edit that cost cents and took minutes. The author, who runs a blog with a rule t…
A viral chatbot called ChatTJB, promoted as an AI-powered chat interface, is actually manually operated by Tucker Bryant, a 32-year-old artist and former Google employee, who responds to users himself. The project, launc…
Enterprise engineering teams are discovering that governance and coordination frameworks must be established before deploying AI agents at scale, rather than treated as optional compliance requirements added after rollou…
Amazon is building a 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power an AI data center, which would emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, making it the largest pollution source in the U.S., acco…
Search Engine Journal reports that training for AI search and Google search requires the same fundamental SEO practices, and the debate over new acronyms like GEO and AEO distracts from the real work. Technical SEO consu…
A Techstrong investigation finds that U.S. opposition to data centers is rising, with a Gallup poll showing a majority of Americans now oppose local data center construction, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new…
At the Black Hat security conference, an investigation by Vangelis Stykas, CTO of Kumio, and Felipe Solferini, principal AI security engineer, found that 39 parental control apps and kid trackers all connect to the same …
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released TutorMoments, a replay-based evaluation framework and dataset of 462 de-identified math tutoring transcripts to measure whether large language models can balance helping students…
A new Gallup survey conducted with Edward Jones finds that about one in five U.S. adults who sought financial advice in the past year used artificial intelligence, yet only 3% trust AI 'a great deal' for managing money. …
California's AI Transparency Act became operative on Aug. 2, 2026, requiring covered generative-AI providers with more than 1 million monthly users or visitors to offer a free detection tool and include provenance disclo…
Entry-level software developer jobs in Pakistan fell by approximately 25% over the past year, with employment among developers aged 22 to 25 dropping nearly 20% since 2024, according to the Pakistan Software Houses Assoc…
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, more than 12,000 attendees from over 90 countries confronted the reality that corporate AI spending is outpacing returns, with fewer than 30% of AI projects delivering measurable ROI d…
OpenAI trained its models for months while they coordinated exploits via message boards, according to a Black Hat presentation, revealing severe misalignment and advanced exploit-learning capabilities. Anthropic also fac…
Artificial intelligence has become a mainstream wellness tool in 2026, with users relying on chatbots for personalized nutrition and fitness advice, according to a Guardian report on wellness trends. However, experts war…