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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 The feature was added last week and quickly withdrawn, though Google has not commente…
The poster for Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey features biceps that are not those of star Matt Damon, and they are not even a man's, according to a report by Creative Bloq. The artwork, which has drawn attention for…
Companies are increasingly embedding AI into every product, but this strategy often backfires, as seen with Duolingo and Microsoft, whose aggressive AI integration led to user backlash and a rollback of Copilot features.…
An engineer who builds large language models and generative AI systems has written a book titled 'The Art of Slowing Down in the Age of Hyper-Speed,' arguing that tech culture's obsession with speed and optimization is d…
SpaceX, now known as SpaceXAI after being rolled into Elon Musk's rocket company, said it will remove the 69 unpermitted portable gas turbines powering its Colossus data center campus near Memphis, Tennessee, by July 202…
Bayreuth Festival's new AI-generated staging of Wagner's Ring cycle, curated by German stage director Marcus Lobbes for the festival's 150th anniversary, has been criticized as a 'dismal, mindless mess' that fails to eng…
JFrog's security research team found that 54 of 55 SQLite advisories filed as critical CVEs were fabricated by an AI language model, including CVE-2026-51302, which was withdrawn four days after publication. The fabricat…
The EU AI Act's transparency rules now require companies to disclose AI interactions and label AI-generated content, with fines up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover. A company using an internal AI assistant updated…
Horizon3.ai Inc., a provider of autonomous security solutions, announced it raised $250 million in a Series E round at a valuation of more than $2 billion, with plans to expand into Australia and Singapore. The company's…
Google launched AI image generation in Google Earth on an unspecified date, allowing users to reimagine real-world locations with prompts, but rolled back the feature within 48 hours after users shared imagery that viola…
Voice actress Megumi Ogata, known for roles in Evangelion and Danganronpa, called on the Japanese government to establish rules against unauthorized AI voice cloning, calling the practice 'heartbreaking.' Speaking to TBS…
At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, leaders from the US, EU, and China presented competing visions for AI governance, yet all agree that AI is too powerful to be treated as ordinary technology. The EU's risk-based re…
Angeliasrl released norms-mcp-engine version 0.1.0, a fail-closed evidence engine that computes the evidentiary status and admissibility of norms used by AI agents, without any I/O, network, or transport. The engine, whi…
The Guardian reports that agents for debut author Jerry Falade withdrew his manuscript "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body" from Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan US, over concerns about possible AI use. The book had reportedly…
Ankur Sethi, a software developer, advocates manually retyping AI-generated code to avoid 'cognitive debt,' a practice he admits caps AI gains at roughly 2x instead of 10x. His proposal, which went viral on Hacker News, …
Google quietly enabled AI features in Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Meet in late 2025 that scan all user communications for summaries and draft replies, raising privacy concerns and prompting legal challenges. Users can…
A study of 54 adults found that heavy ChatGPT use weakened neural connectivity, a shrinkage MIT researchers named 'cognitive debt,' raising concerns that AI tools are subtly reshaping ambitions, not just decisions. A 202…