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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…
AI-generated influencers like 'Derek Lam' are amassing tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and X by posting shirtless, dancing videos, with many fans unaware they are not real. These deepfakes steal the likenesses o…
The Vector Institute in Toronto released UnBias-Plus, an open-source tool that detects and rewrites biased language in text and AI training data, targeting biases related to race, gender, age, and political framing. The …
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of a golden bald eagle on a White House balcony, claiming it was a gift for the building's 250th birthday, but the image contained errors including only 11 stars instea…
Security researchers at MalExt Sentry uncovered a campaign called 'PromptSnatcher' on June 13, 2026, in which two malicious ad-blocker extensions, 'Smart Adblocker' and 'Adblock for Browser,' exfiltrated AI chat data fro…
Yousuf Imran, a Google Cloud account executive earning $986,000 in 2025, quit in April 2026 to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab, citing fear of layoffs and FOMO about the AI boom. He noted that AI labs like Ope…
The Dutch Council for Culture has advised the government to impose a legal content levy on generative AI companies operating in the Netherlands, requiring them to pay artists for using their work to train AI models. The …
European governments are rolling out digital identity wallets that rely on Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's Managed Device Attestation, effectively making public infrastructure dependent on private companies. This…
Proton launched Lumo 2.0, a major update to its zero-access encrypted AI assistant, introducing advanced reasoning models, multimodal capabilities including image recognition and generation, enhanced web search, and user…