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Ryan Schuetzler, a researcher and blogger, published a personal set of principles for using AI, emphasizing that AI-generated content should not be used to overwhelm others, that users must own and understand what they p…
MiniMax renamed its agent product Mavis in May 2026 and rebuilt it around Agent Teams, where a Leader, Worker, and Verifier split tasks, but the company's own engineering post admits this only pays off on long, verifiabl…
Engadget reported that a $2 sticker can obscure the capture LED on Meta's Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses, bypassing the anti-creep feature designed to alert people when they are being recorded. This comes after Meta rolle…
Ed Parsons, a former Google employee, warned that Google's AI image generation feature in Google Earth undermines geospatial trust, which is critical for human rights investigators, journalists, emergency responders, and…
A photography gallery in Belfast faced criticism for exhibiting AI-generated images by an artist, sparking anger among visitors and photographers.
The Bayreuth Festival's 150th anniversary staging of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen, curated by German stage director Marcus Lobbes, used an AI system to generate real-time projections from 150 years of archival materia…
A 2025 study in the Academy of Management Journal found that leaders who rely heavily on AI-generated communication are perceived as less authentic by employees, potentially undermining trust and engagement. A 2024 Stanf…
Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and two former Apple employees, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets related to Apple's hardware and supplier information. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court…
AI agents now perform real work, but companies lack automated checks for judgment-based tasks like writing and strategy, according to an essay by an unnamed author on Inside AI Native. The author argues that while determ…
JFrog warns that AI-generated 'LLM slop' CVEs are flooding vulnerability databases, causing organizations to waste time investigating and patching non-existent vulnerabilities. In environments where AI automates vulnerab…
A new analysis from The Diff examines how wealthy tech investors are using AI-focused funds as hedges against both business disruption and existential risks, noting that tail-risk hedging strategies may intentionally acc…
Intuition Robotics' ElliQ, an AI-powered tabletop robot, has become a daily companion for Anthony Niemiec, an 88-year-old Beacon, N.Y., resident, and other older adults in their 70s and 80s, who are among the earliest Am…
ZDNET reports that Anthropic's Claude AI conversations were briefly accessible via a Google dork, prompting the company to fix the indexing issue. The article outlines privacy controls for ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and C…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that parents use ChatGPT to generate a daily podcast from family calendars and children's interests for the drive to school, a proposal that drew widespread criticism from public figu…
A developer who created a free open-source software project has publicly rejected user complaints, license change requests, and AI-generated pull requests, and has restricted contributions to an approved list. The develo…
Amazon has confirmed it is limiting visibility of product reviews to combat AI data-scraping bots, but the measure has inadvertently blocked real customers from viewing reviews. An Amazon spokesperson told Fast Company t…
A UC Berkeley study found that experienced open-source developers using AI coding assistants were 19% slower than those working without them, as the overhead of reviewing and correcting AI-generated code exceeded time sa…
A field-based study by Antonia Juelich, based on 2025 and 2026 interviews with former Boko Haram members, documents that the terrorist group has adopted frontier AI, moving from propaganda to operational use. The study, …
California's new AI transparency law, authored by state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, and co-authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Los Angeles, takes effect Aug. 2, requiring AI com…
Google Earth removed its Nano Banana AI image generator shortly after users created misleading images with it, according to PetaPixel. The feature was added last week and quickly withdrawn, though Google has not commente…