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LinkedIn has introduced a "Seems like AI slop" button that lets users flag posts suspected of being generated by artificial intelligence, acknowledging the prevalence of AI-generated content on the platform. The feature …
Bitsight researchers uncovered Fuyao, a multimillion-dollar ad fraud operation that used preinstalled Android apps, device identity spoofing, AI-generated websites, and residential proxy services to generate advertising …
A reader question about whether information shared with AI chatbots and large language models (LLMs) could be disclosed in legal proceedings highlights growing concerns over confidentiality in the legal profession. The a…
Airbnb's engineering team reports that shipping reliable AI features requires dedicating a significant portion of project effort to evaluation, as detailed in a company write-up on eval-driven development. The post empha…
Apple TV's 10-episode remake of Cape Fear, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, reimagines the classic revenge thriller as a paranoid tech drama, with Javier Bardem's Max Cady using drones, AI voic…
A tech worker and programmer argues that the promise of AI doing most tasks for people is flawed, questioning who would benefit and how society would function without human labor. The author highlights AI's tendency to h…
AI companies are mass shredding rare books to train their models, according to a video report. The practice involves destroying unique physical copies of books to digitize them for AI training data, raising concerns abou…
An audit of an ECS-hosted agentic SOC platform found that 5 of 24 security configuration properties are not covered by existing cloud security benchmarks, including the use of the same IAM role for task and execution rol…
A German court ruled that Suno, an AI music generator, violated copyright law by training its neural network on existing songs without authorization, marking one of the first major judicial decisions in Europe against a …
The U.S. State Department apologized after a senior health envoy displayed an AI-generated map of Africa at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro that mislabeled and misplaced all six countries shown as recipients o…
Brent Saunders, CEO of Bausch + Lomb, argues that the current AI hype is not new and that lasting competitive advantage comes from building a learning culture, not just adopting technology. The company partnered with Cou…
Carl Brown explains why being an AI developer is the best job in the world, using the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack as a case study. He argues that the incident, caused by rookie mistakes on both sides, illustrates how AI com…
A practical checklist for decision-makers warns that AI projects fail without clean, labeled data, a narrow high-stakes problem, a 3-year total cost of ownership, human-in-the-loop design, and early legal and security in…
Thierry Rignol, a student in Yale University's Executive MBA program, filed a 13-count federal lawsuit against Yale after the school suspended him for a year and gave him an F in a course, alleging that an AI detection t…
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring millions of antiquarian books to scan for training its large language models, then destroying them, according to a Washington Post …
A Gallup poll released this week found that 39% of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2024 and 2025, while only 9% think it does more good than harm, down from 12% last year. The shift come…
A booming industry of AI-generated 'deadbots' that simulate conversations with the deceased has drawn scrutiny from major publications and researchers, with the digital legacy market valued at $22.46 billion in 2024. Pla…
According to the 2026 WebAIM Million report, 95.9% of the top one million website homepages have detectable accessibility failures, with an average of 56.1 errors per page and a 10.1% increase in errors over the prior ye…
A new analysis from veterinary practice settings warns that AI tools adopted for administrative tasks such as documentation and client communication carry governance risks that formal enterprise frameworks often miss, be…
Haskell Foundation (HF) is collecting common legal questions about large language models (LLMs) to present to a legal expert, focusing on EU and US frameworks, with the goal of publishing answers to help maintainers asse…