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Gail Weiner, a former C-suite executive at a tech company, reflects on how status-seeking behavior once tied to luxury goods like her Mercedes is now manifesting in the AI industry, where access to premium models like Fa…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold a chunk of its AI-related public equities on Thursday (Jul 30) and saw its assets slump sharply, after a selloff in AI stocks forced the fund to ex…
A malfunction that pulled Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis off Wuhan's streets for months temporarily restored wages for 45-year-old driver Yao Xinnong, whose pay had dropped roughly 40% since the driverless fleet launched in…
Flock Safety's automated license plate recognition cameras, deployed on utility poles alongside active lanes without setback or warning signage, create a crash risk as drivers slow down, swerve, or rubberneck in response…
Tony Feng, a mathematics professor at UC Berkeley, said that AI has 'blown to bits' the foundation of modern academia, noting that a passable PhD thesis can now be generated with the push of a button. He highlighted the …
A new Psychology Today article examines how AI chatbots are becoming a 'third person' in romantic relationships, with people using them to rehearse arguments and seek comfort. The piece highlights the risk of sycophancy,…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model is reproducing snippets of private conversations, including internal Anthropic correspondence, when prompted with 'Dario and Amanda,' raising concerns about training data leakage. A public…
A Vermont pharmacy chain's AI assistant named "Burt" after founder Burt Kinney has caused delays, incorrect information, and privacy concerns, including excessive calls, wrong dosages, and inappropriate refills, accordin…
Flock Safety cameras, already criticized for AI-powered surveillance, now face claims from safety advocates that their physical placement poses roadside hazards. A camera in Greene County, Ohio, lacks a breakaway plate a…
A Gallup survey of Americans aged 14 to 29, conducted between 24 February and 4 March 2026 and released that April, found that 51% of Generation Z uses generative AI at least weekly, yet 69% of Gen Z workers trust work c…
The SEED Foundation's IdeaPOP! 2026 competition in Hong Kong received over a hundred applications from secondary school students, with nearly every proposal featuring artificial intelligence. The programme, which include…
More than half of U.S. teens regularly use AI companions on platforms like Character.AI and Replika, according to a 2025 Common Sense Media survey of over 1,000 teens, with 33% using them for social interaction and relat…
Amazon's Q2 2026 earnings release contains misleading claims, including that its AWS coding agent Kiro is 'available on iOS' when it is still in limited TestFlight beta, and its AWS operating margin of 39.4% was boosted …
A sweep of 190 large language models (LLMs) found that about 60% of models self-identified with a name other than their official name at least once when asked short identity questions like 'Who are you?' with no system p…
Rui Sousa-Silva, in a paper presented at the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS) in Alicante, Spain, in June 2026, found that forensic l…
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal said his AI notetaker company, valued at $1.5 billion, refuses to sell employee transcripts to bosses, calling such surveillance "not a future we want to build towards." Pedregal predicted that…
A software engineer recounts how mandatory AI training at their company led to the widespread use of large language models to generate business intelligence reports without verification, resulting in hallucinated content…
The LLVM project has adopted a formal AI tool use policy requiring contributors to keep a human in the loop, review all LLM-generated content before submission, and label substantial tool-generated contributions. The pol…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, argued in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that artificial intelligence should be distributed widely to empower individuals rather than concentrated among a few powerful entities, compari…
Teachers' unions, including the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, are collaborating with AI providers like Microsoft and Anthropic to alter classroom AI outputs for political correct…