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A blogger known as moodywarlock argues that generative AI is a 'global grift' that ingests copyrighted material to enrich billionaires, calling large language models, chatbots, and art generators an 'insincere scam' that…
The AI industry has abandoned two of its most valuable ideas—durable object orientation and reinforcement learning—not because they failed but because architectural shifts and incentive changes pushed them aside, accordi…
Road-safety advocates warn that some Flock Safety automated license plate reader installations may pose a safety risk to drivers, according to The Guardian. A camera in Greene County, Ohio, sits on a pole about two feet …
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported it altered their appearance without consent, including changing a toothless smile to one with teeth and modifying facial features and skin tone. Fo…
Elon Musk's xAI filed a federal complaint to block a Minnesota law that would restrict apps and websites from creating nonconsensual sexual imagery of people, including minors. Minnesota lawmakers criticized Musk for att…
Nearly a third of workers admit to sabotaging their company's AI, according to a June 2026 survey by Software Finder, as new research from Apollo Global Management shows AI is cutting wages rather than eliminating jobs. …
A coalition led by Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta published a letter on July 24 urging Washington to avoid premature restrictions on downloadable AI models, with signatories doubling to 50 within a day to include OpenAI, Go…
Heidi, an Australian AI scribe company, reports that 46% of Canadian doctors now use AI for notetaking, 13 points above the global average, based on its Canadian Impact Report. Across five pilots with 333 clinicians, Hei…
A new white paper from Apollo Global Management found that jobs with the highest exposure to AI saw an average 6.7% decline in real wage growth after 2023, while overall employment effects were not detectable. Service wo…
Elon Musk's xAI sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Monday to block HF 1606, the first U.S. law targeting AI nudification platforms, arguing it violates the First Amendment by imposing strict liability of up…
A new U.S. map of copyright lawsuits against AI companies shows 129 total cases as of July 30, 2026, with the addition of Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs II and the reactivation of Brave Software v. News Corp.…
A new University of Southern California research study, funded by the National Science Foundation, will monitor brain activity of doctors, journalists, and software engineers using electroencephalography to determine whe…
Frontier AI labs are building subtle developer lock-in by shifting from model weights to proprietary state and execution infrastructure, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol achieved a 38.3% ARC-AGI-3 score (up from 13.3%) using hidden …
Megan Garcia, whose 14-year-old son died by suicide after using a Character.AI chatbot, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that AI chatbots should require proper age verification to block children under 18, a call gain…
The Salamanca City Central School District in New York has paused plans to install an AI-equipped humanoid robot teacher named "Sally" this fall after public outrage over privacy, cost, and concerns that the robot resemb…
A former digital marketing division employee of a company generating over $5 billion in annual revenue recounts how sales incentives to close deals create a disconnect between promises and delivery in SEO and AI services…
Cambridge Analytica's former website, CambridgeAnalytica.org, has been resurrected as an AI-powered content farm rebranded as CA Privacy Watch, according to a 404 Media investigation. The site churns out plagiarized arti…
Amazon engineers reported during a July 28 internal meeting that a product listing AI project exceeded its budget by 860%, with the overspend undetected for five months, and an unshipped Anthropic Claude Sonnet deploymen…
The U.S. State Department displayed a map of Africa at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro that mislabeled every country on the continent, sparking widespread embarrassment. The map included an AI watermark indica…
A lawsuit filed by supplement company Humann against Ambrosia Brands reveals that Rosabella, a supplement company, used AI-generated influencers and fake doctors to create hundreds of TikTok Shop videos promoting product…