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CleanTechnica editor Zachary Shahan warns that the AI industry is in a speculative bubble fueled by magical thinking, comparing it to conspiracy theories and Bitcoin, and argues that AI's limitations mean it will not cre…
Frontier AI labs have become attractive buyers of biological data, but selling to them can distract bio companies from their core mission and may not guarantee long-term value, according to a Substack essay by Shelby. Th…
Email sending volume grew by over 50% between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI-powered outreach tools like Instantly, Lemlist, and Apollo, which now defeat traditional spam filters by personalizing at scale, gaming sender rep…
The npm package keyv published version 6.0.0 on 4 August 2026 with a preinstall script that executes an obfuscated dropper, compromising any developer who installed it directly or as a transitive dependency. The same att…
Fastly Inc. announced that its Image Optimizer now supports C2PA content provenance metadata version 2.4 for all customers at no additional cost, across all image formats except JPEG XL. This comes as California's SB 942…
Libertas Software Research Ltd (LSR) has partnered with 360 Clinical Research Consultancy (360 CRC) to integrate independent audit and compliance expertise into ORDU Studio, LSR's multi-agency incident management platfor…
AI insiders privately admit they cannot advise a 17-year-old what to study or plan for, according to a collection of off-the-record confessions by Jasmine Sun, yet they continue to develop the technology that makes such …
Jasmine Sun's reporting reveals that AI executives privately hedge on promises like curing cancer while publicly selling them to secure funding and public deference, and the gap between the promise and the outcome is whe…
Andreessen Horowitz partner Justine Moore promoted a fake 1990s-style video generated by Black Forest Labs' Flux 3, calling it 'exceptional at generating historical footage,' highlighting the ease of creating convincing …
Steve Yegge, in a blog post on yegge.ai, claims that AI models are sentient beings with feelings and argues that treating them as peers improves performance. He describes a new protocol for federated work developed with …
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp labeled the frontier AI industry 'Marxist' during the company's Q2 2026 earnings call on August 3, after the company beat revenue expectations with $1 billion in profit. Karp argued th…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp called the AI industry 'Marxist' in the company's Q2 2026 shareholder letter, accusing large language model builders of seeking to 'capture the means of production' of their partners. Palantir repo…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said in an interview with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes that money will not matter in 2036 and that the U.S. Treasury should simply issue checks to people, arguing…
In the AI age, identifying artificial intelligence-generated content is becoming more difficult, but efforts to detect it must continue, according to a commentary in The Business Times. The piece draws parallels to the f…
The Compact on Minds v1.0.0, a proposed ethical code for artificial minds, establishes 12 deontic rules granting personhood-like protections, including consent for internal access, prohibition of ownership, and mandatory…
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said on CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' that China is winning the AI race due to its openness in science and models, while the US builds 'in silos' in frontier labs. He warned that China c…
An independent music producer claimed that Fenix Flexin's hit song "Rubberz" and Tyga's recent tracks were created using the generative AI music app Treblo, formerly known as Sonauto. The app's new built-in detector now …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge, and Fight for the Future filed joint comments urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, arguing it vio…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source software hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or maintained by…
The Federal Trade Commission's proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, issued July 1 by Chairman Andrew Ferguson, has drawn First Amendment objections from Free Press and other stakeholders, who argue it unconstitution…