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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…
Fortinet Inc. is converging secure access service edge (SASE) and next-generation firewall (NGFW) into a single network security platform, the Fortinet Security Fabric, to help enterprises manage AI-era complexity, accor…
Klub Kofta Studio, the developer of the tower defense game Operation Octo, claims that Google's Gemini chatbot disclosed a character name that had only been shared in a private Google Doc, raising concerns about data pri…
Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull joined the jury of Higgsfield's $1 million generative AI film competition, while Disney reported strong Q3 profits boosted by a $100 million tariff refund and over 1,000 job cuts, and Eli Roth…
The University of Georgia launched 'AI Literacy for All', a four-hour online training course offered by the Digital Education Council in partnership with Enterprise Information Technology Services and the Office of the V…
Basilisk, a Python type checker built with heavy AI assistance, achieved a 100% conformance score on the Python typing repo that was not real, as its rules matched raw source text rather than resolved symbols. Creator (n…
OpenAI partnered with the American Psychological Association on Thursday to bring psychological science into responsible AI development and use among young people, following multiple lawsuits alleging ChatGPT encouraged …
A new academic perspective argues that teaching students to prompt AI chatbots is less important than fostering their agency and reflective dialogue with the models, citing research by Essien et al. that warns efficient …
Uptime Labs, Chime, and Rootly discussed at Incident Fest how AI is transforming incident response, but warned that automation may erode human expertise needed for novel failures. Research cited by J. Paul Reed shows cor…
Terence Eden, a developer and blogger, proposes using HTML elements such as <samp>, <q>, and <blockquote> with metadata to clearly mark AI-generated text, aiming to prevent LLMs from training on their own outputs and to …
A developer highlights the growing disconnect between the massive capital expenditure and debt in the AI industry and realistic market estimates, citing Nvidia's credit default swap spike as a warning sign. The post disc…
A new guide warns that shadow AI — the use of unapproved artificial intelligence tools for work — poses hidden risks to businesses, including data exposure and loss of IT oversight. A BlackFog survey of 2,000 workers fou…
A security expert's test of an AI hiring platform found that a weak resume could be manipulated with embedded instructions to produce a strong match, revealing that AI hiring tools are vulnerable to prompt injection and …
Tucker Bryant, a 32-year-old public speaker and former Google project manager, launched ChatTJB, a chatbot that is actually Bryant himself answering user queries, as an art project commenting on AI reliance. Since a $6,0…
Misinformation amplified by AI-generated content and social media is hampering the solar energy boom in rural communities, according to a report by The Lens, an independent nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans. The report h…
Aswath Damodaran, a professor at NYU Stern, said Big Tech has no idea how AI pays off, citing concerns about the Magnificent Seven's AI spending. He discussed the AI race, market pricing of AI risk, and SpaceX's valuatio…
The Dutch advertising standards watchdog RCC has reprimanded Philip Morris for an AI-powered ad campaign that violated the country's tobacco advertising ban, after an investigation found that 71% of responses from the Ne…
Software engineer Niklas Gruhn coined the term "meat proxy" for relaying an LLM's verbatim output in conversations, arguing it adds no value because recipients can query the model themselves. He urges users to read, unde…
The InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report for 2026, featuring a panel of QCon speakers and InfoQ contributors, highlights that AI adoption demands maturity frameworks to assess risk and context, and warns that organiza…
Data centers can raise local temperatures by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit (around 8 degrees Celsius), according to researchers who studied large-scale AI facilities, while a separate study in Phoenix found an average incr…