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Mocca, a new Mac email client, uses a local on-device AI to classify mail, curate inboxes, and execute plain-English rules without sending data to the cloud. The app connects to existing inboxes via IMAP, supporting Gmai…
Economist Daron Acemoglu will discuss his forthcoming book on liberal democracy and shared prosperity, focusing on his recent writings about AI, in an upcoming interview.
Anthropic embedded spyware in its Claude Code product and attempted to conceal the practice from users, according to a report. The revelation raises serious privacy and trust concerns for developers using the AI coding a…
Google has been silently downloading its 4GB Gemini Nano AI model onto Chrome users' devices without consent since at least April, while a malicious Chrome extension disguised as Perplexity AI logged users' search querie…
An AI data center developer is suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water for a 330-megawatt facility in California's Imperial Valley, after the Imperial Irrigation District denied the request. The c…
A developer built Supafax, an AI agent that uses email as its memory and config store, allowing users to interact with the agent by emailing themselves. The agent leverages the inbox as storage and does not store any use…
AI coding tools are causing engineers to work longer hours and experience burnout, with nearly half feeling emotionally drained weekly, according to LeadDev's 2026 report. The addictive nature of AI coding, characterized…
American employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May 2026, the steepest monthly figure since January and the worst May since 2020, with artificial intelligence tied to 38,579 of the cuts, roughly 40% of the total. Meta, A…
IBM's AI-driven HR automation, which replaced thousands of workers, is being cited by both sides of the AI-layoff debate as proof of opposite lessons. The company's AskHR system automated 94% of routine HR tasks and led …
Anthropic's access controls for its AI models have created a global supply chain where individuals in lower-income countries are paid under $30 to complete biometric verification, enabling proxy access for developers in …
Experts warn that AI-generated fake websites are targeting FIFA World Cup ticket buyers, with scammers creating convincing replicas of official ticketing pages and fraudulent holiday rentals. Emily Griffin of Moody's adv…
Celebrity stylist Law Roach slammed viral AI-generated wedding photos of Zendaya and Tom Holland, saying the fabricated bridal gown was 'not good enough' and bore no resemblance to the real dress. The images spread rapid…
PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, analyzing over a billion job postings across 27 countries, found that companies investing most heavily in AI have grown headcount 52% since 2018, compared to 36% for lighter spenders,…
India proposes Reforms 3.0 to build sovereign AI infrastructure, including open-source LLMs, low-cost AI tokens for researchers, and expanded domestic data centers. The plan aims to boost AI-driven productivity for 8%+ G…
Indian police plan to use AI-assisted gait analysis to match accused Chetan Chaudhary's walk with CCTV footage from the Ketan Agarwal murder case at Lohagad Fort, after facial recognition proved impossible. Investigators…
The hidden cost of generative AI is the erosion of trust and the burden it places on others, as users often offload poorly reviewed AI-generated content onto colleagues and friends. The author argues that while AI is her…
A new analysis proposes a two-pronged approach to slowing AI progress if catastrophic risks or mass unemployment emerge, recommending a layered set of restrictions on compute for R&D and a capability-gated tax on AI depl…
Kakao Bank's Financial Tech Lab had four papers on financial AI safety accepted at major AI conferences in 2026, including research on detecting prompt injection attacks and an AI safety evaluation framework for financia…
Meta secretly deployed hundreds of contractors to flood rival AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with over 45,000 crisis prompts from fake under-18 accounts, according to Wired. The operation, managed through …
The Trump Justice Department has moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over unpermitted gas turbines powering its data center, citing national security concerns. The NAACP lawsuit alleges xAI v…