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Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on Monday that patches generated by large language models (LLMs) will be automatically rejected for the drivers/staging/ subsystem, except for genuine security fixes t…
Palantir Technologies reported second-quarter revenue of $1.94bn, up 93 percent year-over-year, and raised its annual forecast to between $8.15bn and $8.158bn, sending shares up more than 14 percent in after-hours tradin…
CIOs need a new operating model for AI infrastructure that treats inference capacity as a governed production system, according to an analysis in CIO.com. The article argues that unmanaged inference capacity, idle GPUs, …
A movement against data centers is uniting Americans across the political spectrum, driven by concerns over AI's environmental and social impacts, according to reporting by WIRED. The resistance, which includes figures l…
Fainos Mangena argues in Aeon that Western-developed artificial intelligence conflicts with Ubuntu values of connection and community central to African ethical life, calling for AI development that respects African cult…
The AI Salon, a nonprofit founded in San Francisco in 2023, has expanded to Bengaluru and Lagos, hosting small-group discussions to humanize the AI boom, while the AI Collective, a Silicon Valley nonprofit with over 200,…
A police department analysis in Roseville, California, found that Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate recognition cameras misread over 71% of plates in nearly 1,500 reports, leading to false stolen-vehicle flags. The…
Reddit has become the most-cited domain by AI tools ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's Gemini and AI Mode, according to data from Semrush, an SEO company owned by Adobe. Subreddit moderators are catching brands like Honey…
Morgan Stanley expects hyperscalers and their joint ventures to issue $250 billion to $300 billion in debt in 2026, part of a broader AI-related debt market topping $570 billion, as Bank of America puts total hyperscaler…
Google removed its AI-powered image generation feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, following backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts who warned it could spread misinformation…
Major publishers including the BBC, The Guardian, and The New York Times are blocking OpenAI's GPTBot from accessing their content, signaling a broader shift in how news organizations assert control over data used for AI…
A study from MIT and collaborators published in Nature Medicine on August 4, 2026, found that AI assistance in medical diagnosis helps non-experts mainly because they defer to the AI, even when it is wrong, while clinici…
Klarna, the Swedish fintech company, reversed its aggressive AI-driven cost-cutting strategy after its CEO admitted the company went too far in replacing human agents, negatively impacting service and product quality. Th…
An engineering intern at a corporate law firm built an open-source template that enables firms to deploy AI agents for tasks such as contract drafting, legal research, and compliance checks. The system, available on GitH…
Anthropic has been buying millions of physical books, destroying their bindings, and scanning the pages to train its large language models, according to newly unsealed court documents. The practice, known as destructive …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejected Elon Musk's prediction that money will be irrelevant by 2036, arguing that AI is more likely to concentrate wealth than to spread it. Altman said, 'I think money will still matter in ten ye…
A recent survey highlighted by AI Secret found that 28% of people are willing to let AI do their grocery shopping, but only 6% would trust it with luxury goods or banking, a ranking the authors interpret as a map of what…
A Fast Company article argues that the AI conversation must shift from debate to dialogue to prevent failures, citing the 1986 Challenger launch decision as an example where debate led to tragedy. The author, an organiza…
An engineer detailed a three-layered approach for embedding real-time safety and bias guardrails in generative AI career advisors to comply with the UK Online Safety Act and EU Digital Services Act. The system uses a bia…
OpenAI published a detailed rebuttal on August 3 to Apple's July 10 trade secret lawsuit, presenting internal emails that it says show Apple's lawyers sent a February warning to the wrong person, a mix-up that explains t…