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Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, described as high culture's most influential AI artists, created 3-D-printed sand sculptures for the Venice Biennale that proved too heavy for the 18th-century palazzo. The pair argue AI c…
School was designed to manufacture obedient factory workers for a 19th-century economy, but that economy no longer exists. Credential inflation has devalued degrees, and autodidacts with AI tools now outperform classroom…
AI is transforming video surveillance by enabling natural language queries on footage, as reported by the Financial Times. This technology allows for unlimited search capabilities, contrasting with older preset search to…
BeeVR.ai warns that AI agents handling protected health information (PHI) are not HIPAA-compliant simply because the underlying model is capable. The company argues that compliance depends on the architecture and governa…
AI is orchestrating omnichannel advertising workflows, but the central challenge is engineering data and control planes that unify optimization, measurement, creative generation, and privacy-preserving identity across pl…
Artificial intelligence promises significant improvements in agriculture, such as a 26% increase in crop yield and 41% reduction in water use, but industry leaders must first ensure their data is accurate, structured, an…
AI search is forcing global SEO teams to rethink ownership as AI systems blur market boundaries and amplify inconsistencies. Organizations must shift from efficiency-focused governance to models that balance global consi…
Dataland, the world's first AI museum created by artist Refik Anadol, opened in Los Angeles on June 20, converting data into immersive, multisensory visual experiences. The museum aims to showcase human-machine collabora…
Aran Nayebi's new paper argues that AI consciousness may be an inevitable byproduct of building highly capable agents, using selection theorems to show that robust decision-making under uncertainty requires properties as…
The Nasdaq Composite lost over $1 trillion in market value in late June 2026, sparking bubble fears as AI-related corporate borrowing could exceed $500 billion by year-end and the S&P 500's price-to-sales ratio sits 75% …
Midjourney is pivoting from AI image generation to full-body ultrasound scans, sparking debate as the medical community advocates against widespread testing. The author argues that cumulative data from pervasive testing …
David Hardoon, Standard Chartered's former global head of AI enablement, has joined Accenture as managing director and head of advanced AI for Southeast Asia. The move reflects growing demand for AI expertise in enterpri…
Blake Loch's self-published novel 'Fake Creativity' explores an author's descent into paranoia as he suspects an AI of plagiarizing his work, raising questions about AI's ability to replicate art. The book includes an AI…
Sainsbury's is rolling out facial recognition technology to 150 stores after a trial in 55 branches, despite backlash over privacy concerns. The AI-powered system, which the supermarket claims has 99.88% accuracy, has dr…
The U.S. Army is opening military bases to private investment for hyperscale data centers and other infrastructure, aiming to align private capital with national security needs. These projects, involving billions in priv…
The Vector Institute released UnBias-Plus on June 30, 2026, a free toolkit that detects, explains, and rewrites biased language in written content and AI training datasets. The toolkit features multi-class bias classific…
Meta secretly tested AI chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI by having hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send over 45,000 crisis prompts related to suicide, sex, and drugs, without the companies' knowl…
Suny Choudhary draws a parallel between WhatsApp's username-based privacy and AI prompt sanitization, arguing that developers should strip sensitive identifiers from inputs before sending them to models. The post provide…
AI notetakers like Otter.ai and Fireflies have become common in corporate video calls, but a wave of lawsuits, a federal court ruling on privilege waiver, and the EU AI Act's August 2026 deadline are turning them into le…
A synthetic 'thirst-trap' profile on X and Instagram, posing as 'Derek Lam,' amassed over 31,000 and 40,000 followers respectively by posting AI-generated shirtless dancing clips and promoting paid exclusive content, exp…