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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…
Google's AI Overview is telling users that Flock safety cameras contain 1 to 5 grams of gold and 2 to 23 pounds of copper, citing an anonymous Substack post and an AI-generated Instagram post, despite the camera weighing…
During a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats agreed that surveillance pricing—companies using personal data to adjust prices—is harmful, but no consensus emerged on regulation. S…
Oligo Security revealed that TeamPCP, the threat actor behind attacks on more than 1,000 open-source software packages earlier this year, has been active since 2020, with links to campaigns tracked as TA-NATALSTATUS and …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly fears that new hires at the $965 billion AI firm are motivated by money rather than its safety mission, according to Axios. The concern comes as Anthropic prepares for a trillion-dol…
TIME is serving AI crawlers a stripped-down markdown version of its website with ads embedded, while human visitors receive the full HTML page, according to a test by an unnamed researcher. The markdown copy, delivered t…
Bruce Ediger, a software developer, describes the offensive security measures he deploys on his blog's VPS to deter malicious bots and scrapers, including a fake WordPress login, an endlessh tarpit on port 22, and servin…
Meta Platforms Inc. has paused its plan to charge a $20 per month Meta One Premium subscription for the 'conversation focus' feature on its AI glasses after customer backlash, according to a statement to The Verge. The f…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh declined to signal future rate cuts while holding the benchmark rate at 3.5%-3.75% for the fifth consecutive meeting, instead touting artificial intelligence as a potential disinflati…
Car photography company Stable Auto Photos has filed a lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney, alleging that Midjourney copied tens of thousands of its copyrighted vehicle photos without permission to train its AI…
A developer recounts building a chatbot for a small candle business that lied to a customer, prompting a week-long effort to learn 10 fundamental AI terms—including tokens, hallucinations, RAG, AI agents, embeddings, and…
Anthropic PBC, the AI company behind the Claude large language model, engaged in 'Project Panama,' a destructive scanning effort that destroyed physical books to train its AI, according to court documents in Bartz v Anth…
A Reuters commentary by Joachim Klement warns that a data-centre reality check could slam the brakes on the AI earnings boom, as the massive capital expenditures on AI infrastructure may not yield expected returns. Kleme…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or maintained by LLM agen…
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will re-administer its entrance exam to approximately 58,000 students after an expert commission found that scores were inflated under a new remote proctoring system, w…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45 billion AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed in late July 2026, triggering a 75% volatility spike in semiconductor stocks (SOX Index), the third such instance after March 2020 and A…
Adtech startup Mobian and publisher Time are serving 'Agent Ads' to AI crawlers on text-only webpages, with brands including Ally Bank and the Project Management Institute participating, sparking debate over the risks an…
WorkNest Secure's Head of Offensive Security Jordan Constantine and Codacy CTO Kendrick Curtis demonstrated how AI-generated code can be exploited, from prompt injection to malicious MCP servers, and offered practical fi…
A 2026 survey found that 55% of Americans now use AI to manage their money, up from 10% a year earlier, surpassing the 41% who use a human financial adviser. MIT Sloan researchers who fed 1,000 prompts into ChatGPT and G…