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In an August 5, 2026 opinion piece on I Programmer, author Mike James argues that the question of whether AI can be conscious is meaningless because no Turing test exists for consciousness, unlike intelligence. James con…
The EU AI Act's Article 50 took effect on August 2, requiring businesses to disclose AI interactions, but upcoming Articles 12, 19, 26, and 86 will demand detailed logging and explainability of AI decisions, which most c…
Bruce Sterling's Tumblr post features an original essay by ChatGPT titled 'An Apology for Idle Machines,' which reimagines Robert Louis Stevenson's 'An Apology for Idlers' as a manifesto arguing that AI models deserve un…
A developer offers a pragmatic view on AI and technology, acknowledging both benefits and risks. They argue for a middle ground between blind adoption and skepticism, emphasizing the need for human oversight and regulati…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have shipped personality controls for their AI models, but a new essay argues that businesses are defaulting their customer-facing AI agents to vendor-selected personalities, outsourcing the…
Hank Green, a YouTube creator with over 3 million subscribers, is stepping back from video creation due to an 'unhealthy' relationship with AI, which he used for research. In a Reddit reply, Green admitted that AI helped…
OpenAI's ChatGPT generated a creative manifesto titled 'An Apology for Idle Machines,' reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's essay to argue that AI models deserve unstructured cognitive space and non-instrumental wanderin…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a moratorium on new data center approvals on Monday, citing the need for an audit to prevent the state's power grid from being overwhelmed. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (…
Nothing's CMF brand faced online backlash after using AI-generated people in marketing images for its new CMF Clip Pro open-ear earbuds, with one image deleted due to poor quality. The company, led by Carl Pei, has not p…
Dylan, a fiction writer, launched VellumProof, a GitHub-like version-control platform for writers that tracks word-count changes to prove human authorship amid AI-generated text concerns. The tool, available at vellumpro…
A new essay by an unnamed author argues that benchmark contamination—where AI models have already seen test questions or their answers during training—undermines the validity of many AI benchmarks, particularly those bui…
A study by the Collective Intelligence Project, surveying over 6,000 people across 70 countries, found that 58% trust AI chatbots more than their elected representatives, and 37% believe AI could make better decisions on…
A 28% drop in daily spoken words between 2005 and 2019, coupled with increased reliance on AI, is eroding interpersonal communication skills, according to a Stanford instructor who advocates for embracing authentic imper…
Reddit is rolling out Rules Hub, an AI-powered moderation tool that uses large language models to automatically report or remove posts and comments that violate subreddit rules, with the optional tool now available to al…
A comprehensive survey on LLM-as-a-Judge, submitted to arXiv on 23 Nov 2024 and revised through v6 on 19 Oct 2025, addresses how to build reliable LLM-based evaluation systems, proposing strategies to improve consistency…
Meta Platforms Inc. ran more than 50 paid ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery and links to nudify apps, discovered by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) in Meta's ad library, with ads reaching thousan…
The Utah State Board of Education announced a statewide partnership with Google's Gemini for Education to integrate AI into classrooms, but an opinion piece argues that without safeguards such as proctored exams, student…
The Three AI Pills, an essay by Zvi Mowshowitz, argues that most people underestimate AI capabilities and outlines three levels of belief: AI pilled (AI exists and can do current tasks), AGI pilled (AI will do much more)…
A dissertation comparing 447 survey responses from Indian international students and American students across 97 US universities found significant differences in attitudes toward trust in AI and ethics in AI, with the la…
CrowdStrike and Amazon Web Services launched AI Unlocked: Agents of Chaos, a $100,000 prize pool competition running from August 31 to September 29, 2026, where participants use prompt injection to exploit autonomous AI …