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A federal judge in San José refused xAI's attempt to compel four women suing the company over sexualised deepfakes generated with Grok to reveal their real names, allowing the case to proceed under pseudonyms and rejecti…
A synthesis of three studies involving more than 480 learners, co-authored by Rónan Fulton, Alana McCarthy, and Michael Hogan, finds that the effectiveness of AI in team collaboration depends more on interpersonal trust …
A free, monthly-refreshed compliance matrix of all 4,893 Indic-language datasets on Hugging Face shows that 65% declare no license, potentially disqualifying them from commercial pipelines under the EU AI Act and enterpr…
Type designers have released a free font called 'Anti-Comic Sans' that is designed to 'poison' AI systems by confusing their optical character recognition and machine learning algorithms. The font, created by a team incl…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promoted ChatGPT Work as a tool for parents to generate personalized podcasts for their children's school commutes, drawing criticism from 'Gravity Falls' creator Alex Hirsch, whose retort 'What if …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that parents use ChatGPT to generate daily podcasts about their children's activities and interests, prompting backlash from users including Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch, whose r…
A new framework called Artificial Intelligence System Prompt Assurance (AISPA) audits system prompts in AI applications, and its review of 3,249 instructions from 88 commercial AI products found that while 98.9% of produ…
A personal blog post from August 2026 lists a series of entries covering topics such as AI ethics, AI-free blogging, and digital resistance, alongside interviews and reflections on books and technology. The post includes…
Snap Inc. announced that wholly AI-generated videos will no longer be eligible for recommendation on Spotlight, the short-video feed in Snapchat, effective this month, to reward authentic human-made content. The company …
Tau Robotics launched an invite-only humanoid home cleaning service in San Francisco at $30/hour, using robots jointly controlled by remote human operators and AI. The service records customer footage for AI training, wi…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to or created by large language models (LLMs), citing infrastructure strain and polit…
A new essay argues that people dislike generative AI output because AI models lack a personal narrative and agency, making their creations feel devoid of intrinsic value. The author contends that unlike fictional AI char…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced widespread criticism on X after suggesting parents could connect family calendars to ChatGPT to generate a daily podcast about their children's lives for the school drive. The post drew about …
A GitHub project called 'burn-em-bitches-money' embeds a 'Techno-Buddhism Foundation Layer Manuscript' that combines Biblical scripture, Zen Buddhist sutras, and 1.58-bit ternary quant lattice mathematics to create an an…
A Bentley University and Gallup poll found that 39% of US adults now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, while only 9% say it does more good than harm, even as 70% report being somewhat or extremely…
Google released an AI feature in Google Earth on Thursday that let users generate fake images, leading to viral fakes such as a nuclear plant in Iran and a plane crashing into One World Trade Center. After online backlas…
GEMA, the German collecting society for composers, lyricists and music publishers, won most of its lawsuit against AI music startup Suno on July 31, 2026, when the Munich Regional Court I ruled that Suno infringed GEMA's…
A developer who started coding in 2025, when AI could write most code, describes the challenge of learning when the machine provides working solutions. They argue that the real skill is choosing to understand failures ra…
Google pulled its Google Earth AI image generator within 24 hours of its July 30, 2026 launch after researchers demonstrated it could fabricate photorealistic images of bomb craters near the Kremlin, nuclear explosions a…
Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze said on his podcast Ones and Tooze that the AI boom is upending the social contract under capitalism, and he is baffled that Elon Musk's trillionaire status is not a bigg…