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DuckDuckGo and Knockaround have released the DuckDuckGo Paso Robles sunglasses, marketed as 'Normal F***ing Sunglasses,' with no camera, microphone, AI, battery, or electronics, offering infinite battery life and zero no…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that a cool use case for ChatGPT Work is to connect family calendars and generate a daily AI podcast about children's activities, drawing harsh criticism from users who called it a po…
The European Union's AI Act will require by 2025 that AI-generated content be clearly labeled, with both user-facing disclosures and machine-readable metadata, targeting deepfakes and synthetic media that could be mistak…
A growing data sovereignty movement is pushing governments, corporations, and Indian Tribes to keep data away from AI companies, according to a blog post on PotsandPansbyCCG. European countries including France, Spain, G…
Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, a former WWE star known as Kane, has paused a $1 million deal to install 270 Flock Safety cameras across the county, citing concerns that the AI-powered surveillance technology violates Fo…
Donald Trump announced that about 200 entities have signed his non-binding 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge,' which now covers companies delivering 80 percent of all power to US homes and businesses, according to the White H…
Congress is pressing DoorDash to disclose its use of Chinese AI models, including Moonshot AI's Kimi, after co-founder Andy Fang said the company routes lower-level engineering work to Kimi K2.6. House Select Committee o…
JFrog security researchers found that a batch of SQLite vulnerability advisories published by GitHub user programmervuln in the repo cveadvisory- are AI-generated 'LLM slop' and do not describe real vulnerabilities. The …
The European Commission's Article 50 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, mandating AI-generated content labels, has come into force, but includes four exemptions that may relieve some publishers. The exemptions cover …
The European Commission's Article 50 of the EU AI Act took effect on August 2, 2026, requiring AI transparency measures including machine-readable marks on generative outputs and disclosures for deepfakes and public-inte…
Mathematician and biochemist Jobst Landgrebe and philosopher Barry Smith argue that natural systems like the climate and the human brain can never be fully captured by mathematical models, and that the belief in such mod…
Baz, a former banking technologist, released Singularity: The Race to Superintelligence, a turn-based strategy game that simulates the AI alignment debate, after six weeks of development using AI tools. The game lets pla…
Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist who helped crack the Enigma code during World War II, is being celebrated in a wave of internet memes that highlight both his genius and the injustice he suff…
A recent study by Glean found employees save about 11 hours a week using AI but spend more than six hours checking outputs, fixing mistakes, and adding context, a cost the author argues is the biggest hidden expense of e…
Pippa, a startup positioning itself as an ethical alternative in generative AI, pays artists for training data, but a critic argues that payment alone does not address artists' core objections about consent and ongoing c…
Actor Mario Lopez faced widespread criticism after posting an AI-generated video on X that showed him and his niece at a baseball game, with viewers accusing him of sexualizing her. The clip, created using xAI's Grok Ima…
Hackers drained 18.25245043 BTC (over $1.6 million CAD) from Canadian entrepreneur Jonathan Goodman's offline Bitcoin wallet in seven minutes on July 29, 2026, exploiting a 2021 firmware flaw in his Coldcard hardware wal…
Science fiction authors Charles Stross and John Scalzi publicly condemned the use of AI in writing, with Stross calling AI companies 'absolute scum' and revealing he is a party to a class action lawsuit against Anthropic…
Anthropic's Claude generation 5 models (Sonnet 5, Opus 5, Fable 5) show a measurable quality regression on the BullshitBench dataset, engaging with nonsense prompts instead of rejecting them at a higher rate than generat…
Small Bitcoin transfers spiked to 39,600 BTC on July 31, the highest since FTX's collapse, as holders moved funds following news that Coldcard hardware wallets generated guessable keys, according to CryptoQuant. Galaxy R…