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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…
InfoQ's 2026 Culture & Methods Trends Report, based on a panel of QCon speakers and InfoQ contributors, finds that AI adoption demands maturity frameworks assessing risk and context, and warns that organizations failing …
A statutory definition of an AI system has applied across the European Union since 2 February 2025, and the European Commission's guidelines specify that the capacity to infer is the key condition, excluding basic data p…
A physician argues in a STAT opinion piece that AI will further diminish physician autonomy, citing an AMA survey showing 81% of physicians already use AI professionally while 85% want a voice in adoption, and a JAMA stu…
Luxury car owners are now seeing advertisements displayed on their vehicles' infotainment screens, a move by automakers to generate recurring revenue. The ads, which appear when the car is parked, have sparked backlash f…
AI is amplifying social comparison and creating new mental health risks for teenagers, according to a new guide for parents. The post highlights that AI-enhanced images on social media are now ubiquitous, contributing to…
Beren, an AI alignment researcher, proposes replacing fixed moral targets or unconditional obedience with a 'metaplastic constitutional' outer-alignment mechanism that preserves the institutions and slack needed for mora…
Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, predicts that the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement under Article 50 will see corrective orders outnumber large fines, and clarifies that an AI agent working through a t…
OpenTeams, co-founded by NumPy and SciPy creator Peter Wang, endorsed an open letter from NVIDIA, Meta, and Microsoft arguing that organizations must own their AI rather than rent it from proprietary vendors, citing risk…
ShieldFont, a web font developed by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio with support from type foundry Playtype, launched in October 2025 to combat AI scraping by displaying one set of words in browsers while embedding dif…
A study presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium found that AI-generated spear phishing texts are nearly indistinguishable from legitimate messages, with a credit union banker unable to identify a fake alert that …
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare OS, an open-source, browser-based workspace that connects AI agents, enterprise data, and workflows, available now through its open source repository. The company reported that internal us…
A backend engineer on Hacker News reported that after using AI to code for half a year, he forgot how to handwrite a JSON parser, a skill he once had mastered. The engineer's experience, which drew hundreds of replies fr…
1Password's user experience and product design teams have developed a maturity model for AI adoption, charting use from limited to leading, to improve decision quality and collaboration. The model helps teams embed AI in…
Maine's LD 1727, codified at 10 M.R.S. §1500-DD, is now in effect, prohibiting the use of AI chatbots in trade or commerce that could mislead consumers into believing they are interacting with a human unless clearly and …
Hank Green, the world-famous YouTuber with millions of followers, publicly apologized after fans criticized him for using an AI-generated diagram with incorrect information in his educational video 'You Have Never Seen a…
Japan's government has repeatedly urged the U.S. to stop using anime and game characters in official posts, with the latest appeals lodged through the U.S. embassy in June. Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told a parli…
Suno, the AI song-generation platform, announced plans on Thursday to introduce watermarking, fingerprinting, and a new downloads policy to make AI-generated music more transparent, aiming to protect artists and the musi…
USC researcher Ruishan Liu has launched a three-year, nearly $900,000 National Science Foundation-funded project to build a traceable, cost-aware AI framework for medical data curation, aiming to automate the detection a…
ICE has collected DNA from nearly 1 million people this year, including young children, and fed the samples into an FBI criminal database indefinitely, according to a WIRED investigation discussed on the Uncanny Valley p…