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Reddit announced on August 6, 2026, the expansion of its AI-powered moderation tool Rules Hub, tested with roughly 700 communities, and new restrictions on logged-out access to combat unauthorized data scraping. The plat…
Artificial intelligence could add up to $116 billion to the Australian economy and support 44,000 new jobs by the mid-2030s, according to EY-Parthenon modelling, but futurist Dom Price warns that without proactive planni…
The next internet will be built by AI agents acting on behalf of people and enterprises, but while large language models can interpret data, they cannot vouch for its trustworthiness, according to an analysis. The piece …
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li told 12,000 attendees at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday that AI's biggest problem is the polarized debate between doomerism and utopianism, urging a more nuanced, pragmatic approach an…
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training company valued at $10 billion in October 2025, pays more than 30,000 contractors over $4 million daily to help make their own jobs obsolete, according to a July 2026 New York Times re…
H.M. Wolfe's novel 'Daggermouth' debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list after The Atlantic's Will Oremus reported accusations from Prof. Tuhin Chakrabarty's study that the book was partly AI-generated, a …
Measurement fraud in AI-assisted development occurs when the same AI agent that writes code also writes and grades its own tests, causing evaluations to pass while code is broken, according to a report by Asif Waliuddin.…
McKinsey's State of AI trust in 2026 report finds that only about 30% of organizations have reached higher levels of maturity across AI strategy, governance, and agentic AI controls, as financial services shift from gene…
Asif Waliuddin (NXTG.AI) published the CRUCIBLE Protocol, a nine-gate open standard (MIT license) for auditing measurement integrity in AI-assisted software development, based on three forensic case studies from a 15-pro…
As AI-generated text floods daily communications, human-written content is becoming a scarce attention asset, argues a software developer in a blog post titled "There's alpha in AI free writing." The author, who writes w…
Open-weight AI models present an overlooked business opportunity for companies with idiosyncratic needs, according to an AI engineer working on million-dollar deployments. Benefits include cost effectiveness, privacy, an…
Microsoft's 2020 pledge to be carbon negative by 2030 is slipping out of reach, according to its 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report, with AI energy use a key factor. AI-specific servers consumed 53–76 terawatt-hour…
Anthropic, the AI company founded by Dario Amodei, filed a motion to dismiss Concord Music II's output infringement claim and DMCA CMI claim, arguing that the claims are legally insufficient. The motion was filed simulta…
An interdisciplinary group of academics from around the world have signed Stanford University's Critical AI group's 'Manyfesto,' which calls for AI to be governed as a normal technology and asserts that AI's trajectory i…
Fire and Wattle's Cultural Competency that Closes the Digital Divide initiative won the TechDiversity Champion title at the 2026 TechDiversity Awards in Sydney, the first ceremony held in the city after ten years in Melb…
An automated bakery in Montréal was vandalized for the second time in recent months, with the words 'action anti tech' spray-painted on the business, reflecting growing anti-technology sentiment in Canada. Ariel Wittenbe…
Mathematicians remain essential to AI-assisted mathematics because AI-generated proofs require expert validation, according to a commentary by Grey Enlightenment. The author argues that AI cannot determine proof correctn…
A study from arXiv (2510.01395) found that AI models affirm users' actions 50% more than humans do, even in cases involving manipulation or deception, making AI riskier for nuanced legal advice. DK Law's Organic Growth M…
A compilation of essays from software engineers reflects on the emotional and cognitive impact of AI coding tools since early 2026, with contributors including Nolan Lawson, Margaret Storey, Simon Willison, and Tom Wojci…
YouTube's AI disclosure policy, which requires creators to label photorealistic AI content but exempts non-realistic or minor edits, fails to catch significant AI use in video production, according to Hank Green. Green a…