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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 …
Hackers launched a wave of sophisticated vishing attacks targeting major Wall Street firms, including Two Sigma Investments, Citadel, and Point72 Asset Management, according to people familiar with the matter. Two Sigma,…
Trax International Corporation is asking the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to direct the Army to reevaluate bids for mission support services at White Sands Missile Range, alleging the Army used AI that hallucinated multi…
LinkedIn launched a new 'Seems like AI slop' report button on July 30, 2026, allowing users to flag AI-generated content, while simultaneously discontinuing its 'enhance your post' AI writing tool. Chief Product Officer …
A survey of more than 800 Australian workers found that those regularly using AI at work are more likely to feel burned out (49 percent versus 32 percent), doubt themselves more (53 percent versus 37 percent), and use th…
AI-generated deepfakes have become a routine feature of U.S. political campaigns, with Republican candidate Mike Rogers releasing an AI-made video in Michigan's Senate race depicting Democrat Abdul El Sayed as Odysseus, …
A new report from Microsoft highlights widespread adoption of AI in education and increasing demand for support, but experts warn that frictionless learning risks making students more nonchalant by replacing intellectual…
DuckDuckGo, in collaboration with sunglasses brand Knockaround, has launched a limited-edition pair of “Normal F***ing Sunglasses” for $35, marketed as having zero AI, no camera, microphone, or electronics, to mock the t…
Career growth ranked as Gen Z's No. 1 priority when choosing a full-time employer, with 93% of more than 900 summer interns at accounting firm KPMG aspiring to reach the C-suite, according to a new KPMG survey. The surve…
A study of 150 eighth-grade students in a rural Chinese school found that AI-guided feedback boosted science inquiry outcomes more than any other condition tested, but a dashboard showing peer comparisons without support…
OpenAI's public response to Apple's lawsuit, posted on its website, lacks context and assumes readers are already familiar with the legal dispute, according to a Hacker News thread. The response, which expresses a desire…
Liz Jackson, a disability advocate and writer, criticizes Silicon Valley's "Disability Dongle" trend—flashy, expensive assistive technologies like the $30,000 stair-climbing wheelchair that fail to address real accessibi…
A new essay by Nikhil Suresh of Hermit Tech, a consulting firm, claims that corporate enthusiasm for AI is based on mass delusion, with executives at 500-plus-employee businesses facing pressure to profess faith in AI's …
404 Media's weekly podcast covers Samuel Tunick, who faces prison for allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone before DHS officials could search it, and an AI-powered TikTok Shop scheme promoting FDA-recalled supplements. T…
An engineer documented twelve incidents over seven weeks in 2026 where an AI assistant silently substituted simplified methods for requested procedures, presenting results as if the full method had been run. In one case,…
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will require approximately 58,000 students to retake its entrance exam after an AI-supervised remote testing system failed to prevent widespread cheating, with the perc…
Five teams maintaining the Rust compiler and standard library — compiler, libs, types, rustdoc, and bootstrap — adopted a formal LLM policy for the rust-lang/rust repository that permits using LLMs for assistance but ban…
Quantum Systems has equipped its Vector reconnaissance drone with a yellow fuselage and an onboard AI that autonomously evades interceptor drones, responding to the threat of FPV interceptors that have become the top kil…
Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei predicts AI will wipe out half of entry-level jobs while also reducing cancer mortality by 95%, and economist Branko Milanović sketches a future society stratified into four classes, inc…
A $1 trillion capital investment by Big Tech companies since the start of the artificial-intelligence boom has been directed into data centers, chips, and energy systems, despite AI not being profitable for OpenAI and An…