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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…
A researcher proposes separating memorized knowledge from reasoning in AI models, suggesting small models with tool access could outperform larger ones. They seek existing research on knowledge erasure and benchmarks lik…
The FreeCAD development team updated its AI policy, now a separate document, requiring contributors to disclose AI use in pull requests, take responsibility for AI-assisted code, and avoid chatbots in reviewer communicat…
A new study by Public First and Google reveals UK workplace AI adoption has doubled to 73% in the past year, but only 15% of workers are advanced users who gain significant career benefits. The research identifies behavi…
A developer warns that AI tools can create 'Orphan Decisions'—operational parameters or code deployed without human understanding or validation. This practice leads to collective cognitive laziness, divergent team realit…
A February 2026 CSET Georgetown report and Defense News reporting confirm China's military is rapidly developing AI-enabled systems for decision support, sensing, targeting, cyber operations, and surveillance, with proto…
Billionaire Marc Andreessen claimed that 'Doctor ChatGPT' outperforms 99% of human doctors, but physicians and peer-reviewed studies contradict him, citing potentially harmful AI advice. A 2026 Nature Medicine study foun…
Atlassian and Dropbox executives shared enterprise AI adoption strategies at Team '26, citing Atlassian's research that quantifies a $161 billion annual 'AI fragmentation tax' in the Fortune 500. The companies emphasized…
DeepMind hired political philosopher Iason Gabriel in 2017 to address ethical challenges of artificial general intelligence, making him the first active philosopher at a frontier AI lab. Gabriel's work has tracked and pr…