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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…
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu argues that hyperscaler AI spending is not heading for a bust, comparing it to Amazon's early infrastructure investment. He notes that while profits are thin due to reinvestment, revenue exist…
Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch software company, argues that AI will not eliminate jobs due to the lump of labor fallacy and Jevons Paradox, but it explains why entry-level hiring is struggling as AI automates individual tasks …
A lawyer at a legal tech startup quit because her boss became obsessed with AI, using ChatGPT to make all company decisions including hiring and firing, and mandating employees consult the AI before any communication. Th…
Nearly 400 local newspapers across 33 states sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York, alleging the companies illegally scraped copyrighted articles—including paywalled content—to train AI models without co…
A new category of cognitive mistake called 'frame errors' is introduced, distinct from logical fallacies and empirical errors, where a correct inference based on accurate facts can still be wrong due to an inadequate rea…
TIDAL will allow fully AI-generated music on its platform but will block it from earning royalties, effective June 29. The policy, which also includes AI badges and removal of fraudulent content, aims to protect human ar…
A new quiz challenges readers to distinguish AI-generated text from human writing, highlighting the growing ability of both people and search engines to detect AI content. The creator's tool aims to rewrite AI text to so…
Ford Motor Company has hired 350 veteran engineers, internally called 'gray beards,' over the past three years to mentor junior staff and improve AI tools, citing that AI is only as good as the training data. The automak…
Ford Motor Company hired 350 veteran engineers, dubbed 'gray beards,' over the past three years to train junior staff and fix ineffective AI tools after realizing AI's limitations. The move helped Ford reduce recalls and…
Nicki Minaj sparked backlash after posting a birthday tribute to Elon Musk on X, thanking him for 'saving free speech.' The post, which included a selfie and praise for Musk's leadership at X and SpaceX, reignited debate…
A developer warns that relying on AI-generated code without thorough review is outsourcing critical thinking and leading to stagnation. The developer urges peers to use AI as a co-pilot but to fully own and validate the …
Grantmaking.ai launched a $1M grant round for projects reducing existential risk from AI, offering $5k to $50k per application. Applications are reviewed by Gavin Leech, Ryan Kidd, and Marcus Abramovitch, with priority r…