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A letter writer praises food service workers at World Cup watch parties in the Bay Area, noting they work harder under pressure as businesses struggle to meet demand. Another letter supports UN calls for AI companies to …
San Diego charter school chain Altus Schools spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots to serve as AI teaching partners, despite experts calling for bans on chatbot use by children. The robots, which function as a mout…
An Alameda County jury convicted Victor Frieson III of murder and torture for killing his girlfriend, artist Zoe Reidy Watts, in Oakland. Prosecutors presented evidence that Frieson attacked Watts after a date, dragged h…
Tidal will label fully AI-generated music with an "AI" icon starting mid-July and remove fraudulent or deceptive tracks, while also stripping royalties from AI-generated songs to ensure only human-created music is moneti…
The July issue of The Highlight explores the loss of tactile experiences in a screen-dominated world, with Sara Herschander reporting on the impact on young children and the potential for a return to more physical intera…
Madonna declared in a Vogue Italia interview that AI is the opposite of art because it stifles creativity and risk-taking, despite her past use of AI for promotional visuals and tour backgrounds. She criticized the music…
Ford Motor Co. is rehiring about 350 veteran engineers, including former employees, after its AI-based quality systems failed to meet expectations. The automaker's executives acknowledged that they mistakenly believed AI…
A developer argues that women are less enthusiastic about AI than men due to systemic biases in AI development and marketing, which often overlook women's perspectives and needs. The piece highlights how AI products and …
A new compliance evidence and audit-trail agent automates evidence collection for regulated environments by observing events, mapping them to a user-supplied control catalog, and sealing results into a verifiable log. Th…
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiries into AI companies…
Teens' inattention is often due to normal brain development, not defiance, as their prefrontal cortex is still building neural networks for focus. Parents can help by identifying 'attention robbers' like novelty and soci…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors through Covalen to pose as minors and probe rival chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI with prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and self-harm, as part of a project called Canne…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue criticized Anthropic's restricted release of its Claude Mythos model, arguing that labeling AI as 'too dangerous to release' serves as effective enterprise marketing rather than a genuine s…
Three independent 2026 datasets confirm the 'dead internet' theory: automated traffic now accounts for 53% of all web traffic, AI-written articles surpassed human-written ones in November 2024, and under a third of Googl…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI frenzy adds risks to an already vulnerable global economy, while a new report shows 37% of recent first-time buyers regret their mortgage size. Meanwhile, Toronto…
A Hacker News user asks whether AI is dumbing down humanity, comparing it to past technologies like calculators and Google Maps that reduced reliance on manual skills. The post warns that AI's ability to answer anything …
The Bank for International Settlements warned in its annual report that the $1 trillion AI investment boom risks ending in a bust reminiscent of historical bubbles like the dot-com crash, as hyperscalers' spending outpac…
Sen. Mark Warner introduced a draft bill that would create a federally vetted list of AI agent providers, allowing users of large online platforms to choose secure and trustworthy agents. The Federal Trade Commission wou…
David Gaider, a veteran writer for the Dragon Age series, called generative AI a "plague" and said it is not ready for prime time, blaming executives for pushing the technology prematurely.
Google made Gemini's personalized AI image generation free for all eligible US users aged 13 and older, removing the paywall that previously restricted the feature to paid subscribers. The feature, built on the Nano Bana…