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Ford Motor Company admitted that AI could not fix its quality control issues and rehired 350 experienced engineers, known as "gray beards," to improve vehicle quality. The automaker credited these veteran employees with …
Executives report that AI is not yet delivering ROI but remain committed to figuring it out, according to Garrett Lord. The article argues that evaluations (evals) will become the strategic intellectual property defining…
A wave of bipartisan federal bills is targeting how AI companies collect and monetize personal health data, threatening the business models of digital health startups that rely on selling user data. Senators have introdu…
Tidal will stop paying royalties on tracks identified as wholly AI-generated, effective immediately, and will add an "AI" badge to such tracks starting July 15. The streaming platform aims to ensure royalties go to human…
Tidal announced it will not pay royalties on music identified as 100% AI-generated, effective immediately, and will label such tracks with an icon starting July 15th. The platform aims to protect artists and inform liste…
Google has launched a Gemini-powered 'Take notes for me' feature for Google Meet, available to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers at $19.99 per month, which transcribes, summarizes, and stores conversations in Google Drive. Cr…
A recent Pew Research report found that 40% of Americans expect AI to negatively impact society, with 63% saying AI is advancing too quickly, fueling a tech-lash that includes resistance to data centers and a resurgence …
A coalition of former governors, big tech companies, and nonprofits has raised $500 million to help U.S. workers navigate AI-driven job disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. E…
Music streaming service Tidal announced it will not pay royalties for wholly AI-generated music, stating its priority is ensuring royalties go to original works produced by people. The company will label AI-generated con…
Meta's FAIR lab, in collaboration with Spain's BCBL, unveiled Brain2Qwerty, a non-invasive AI system that decodes typed sentences from brain activity with up to 80% character accuracy using magnetoencephalography (MEG). …
A Hacker News user questions whether programming languages and web technologies need further development if AI-generated code is always perfect and follows best practices, suggesting it might halt innovation.
Legal teams must adopt a data-platform-centric approach for AI, not a model-centric one, to ensure governance, context, and auditability across contract review and operations. A data-native architecture with access polic…
PriEco, a new open source web search engine, has been announced. The project emphasizes quality, faithfulness, consistency, and robustness, built over time rather than overnight. The creator advocates for physical note-t…
Ford has rehired approximately 350 experienced engineers after its investment in AI and automated quality control systems failed to meet expectations, with the technology not detecting enough problems. The rehired qualit…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after realizing overreliance on AI caused reliability issues, leading to billions in warranty costs. The human experts helped Ford achieve the top spot in the 2026 JD Power Initial Qual…
Enterprise AI security must evolve from static rule-based controls to adaptive monitoring that understands agent intent and context, as autonomous AI agents behave non-deterministically. A modern platform should continuo…
A developer argues that applying large language models to code risks replacing human thought rather than amplifying it, warning that software is fundamentally a human problem disguised as logic. The piece critiques the a…
Two-thirds of planned U.S. data centers are moving to rural areas, driven by AI compute demand and proximity to high-voltage power lines, but local opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in projects across 24 stat…
Indie studio A24 faces fan backlash after signing a $75 million AI research partnership with Google, contradicting the anti-AI stance of its hit film 'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons. Fans accuse the studio of betraying…
A new study from Australian National University finds that most people can only distinguish AI-generated faces from real ones at random levels, but training focused on six key characteristics—facial distinctiveness, memo…