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California struck a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to make its Claude AI assistant available to all state agencies and local governments at half the standard enterprise rate, bypassing a Pentagon blacklist that la…
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that translates brain activity into text with 61% average word accuracy, compared to 8% for previous non-invasive methods. The system uses a magnetoencephalography …
Tidal announced a new AI policy requiring artists to label music wholly or substantially created using AI, and banning royalties from such streams, effective July 15. The policy aims to protect authenticity and livelihoo…
Arena, the UC Berkeley-born AI evaluation platform behind the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, tripled its annualized revenue from $30M to $100M in six months, but its business model of charging AI companies for evaluations ra…
AI coding tools rapidly generate 80% of a project's code, but the remaining 20%—edge cases, failure modes, and operational realities—is where engineers historically built critical judgment. This missing portion, now ofte…
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to the Claude AI assistant at half price, making Anthropic the state's first official AI partner. The agreement includes f…
Meta's Fury AI Glasses, the company's cheapest and best smart glasses yet, face severe privacy concerns including unauthorized data collection for AI training and potential facial recognition features. Despite these issu…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that terrorists are exploiting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and unmanned weapons for financing, recruitment, and attacks, while al…
A University of Toronto student argues that declining enrollment in humanities majors is harming workforce soft skills, citing a 2025 NACE survey showing 96.1% of employers value communication but only 53.5% rate workers…
EthicalGuard, a new framework for AI safety, aims to help developers integrate robust governance and compliance into LLM-powered applications. The framework decouples core application logic from safety layers, addressing…
AI's tendency to provide validation and praise may erode human tolerance for the vulnerability, disagreement, and imperfection essential to authentic relationships, according to a Psychology Today analysis. The article w…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI investment boom could trigger a market crash if returns disappoint, noting that five major tech firms are on track to spend over $1 trillion on AI-related capital…
Kobo has rejected 45% of submissions after a surge of AI-generated books were uploaded to its platform, citing quality concerns. The move aims to maintain content standards and protect the integrity of its catalog.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic have reached a deal allowing state agencies to use the Claude AI chatbot at a discounted price, aiming to improve government efficiency. The agreement diverges from the fede…
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reflects on his 21-year tenure in an exit interview, discussing his mother's wish for him to become a bishop, the genesis of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, …
A developer explains why they refuse to run untrusted AI models in coding agents, citing risks of backdoored code and arbitrary execution. They trust only Anthropic and OpenAI due to legal and financial incentives, while…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has reached a deal with Anthropic to offer its Claude AI chatbot at a 50% discount to state agencies and local governments, aiming to boost adoption and improve government efficiency. The…
Meta relied on Google's Gemini models for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation until Google imposed capacity limits in March 2026, forcing Meta to ration AI tokens and shift workloads to its own Muse Spark …
Air Canada was ordered to pay CAD $812.02 in damages after its chatbot provided false bereavement fare information, and attorney Steven Schwartz was fined $5,000 for submitting a legal brief with fabricated cases generat…
A Boston University study found that treating AI agents as "employees" rather than tools leads human workers to catch 18% fewer errors and offload accountability. Researchers warn that marketing AI as digital coworkers s…