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AI design tools in early 2026 remain fundamentally bad at design, producing uncanny valley outputs that lack intent and reasoning, according to a professional designer. While useful for generating rough approximations an…
Kevin Kelly predicts that most people will soon carry an always-on AI agent that knows them better than they know themselves, acting as an 'exoself' that extends their mind and capabilities. This technology, borrowed fro…
Nearly 400 local newspaper publishers filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on June 24, accusing the tech giants of using copyrighted journalism without permission to train AI products like ChatGPT an…
The RSPCA warns that 10% of UK pet owners are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini for pet care advice instead of consulting vets, driven by rising veterinary costs. The charity says AI cannot physically examine ani…
Tech companies have eliminated about 10,900 Bay Area jobs in the first half of 2026, more than double the 4,700 cuts in the same period last year and exceeding the 10,170 total for all of 2025. Cisco Systems plans to cut…
Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri AI at WWDC 2026, powered by Apple Foundation Models and a partnership with Google Gemini, emphasizing privacy through on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute. The move positions Apple…
At DX Annual, a panel of engineering leaders from Etsy, Twilio, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft debated AI's impact on software engineering, concluding that AI will not eliminate the need for engineers but will shift their…
Mayflower Specialty, Ltd. and Hadron launched the first dedicated affirmative artificial intelligence liability program in the United States, providing explicit coverage for D&O, EPL, and E&O risks from enterprise AI dep…
Artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models, produce human-like language through associative patterns rather than consciousness, raising questions about whether AI mirrors the structure of the unc…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI investment frenzy, with hyperscalers projected to spend over $1 trillion on infrastructure, could trigger a severe market slump reminiscent of the dot-com bust. T…
HR leaders must shift workforce planning from counting exposed job titles to measuring task-level AI adoption, according to a June 2026 opinion piece by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky in HR Daily Advisor. Citing Anthropic research s…
The Economist reports that training AI to understand human behavior and workflows presents significant challenges, including ethical concerns and technical limitations. The article warns that such efforts risk embedding …
Journalist Joanna Stern spent a year integrating AI into her family's daily life, testing chatbots, robots, and self-driving cars. Her experiment, documented in a book and reported by multiple outlets, found that AI exce…
A developer discusses how AI crawlers and robots.txt policies are fragmenting the web's shared information environment. As websites selectively allow or block AI systems like ClaudeBot and GPTBot, retrieval access is div…
Calistoga residents opposed a data center proposal for the city's fairgrounds, presented by Global Stack LLC, which would include a three-story parking garage and a helipad for future eVTOL aircraft. The plan aims to gen…
A new report from Rethink Priorities analyzes the deployment of AI in aquaculture, finding that AI tools are primarily used for high-value species like salmon and shrimp in the US and Norway, with adoption driven by stoc…
Meta has restricted its engineers from using Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex AI coding tools to protect proprietary AI training data and internal codebases from exposure. The policy, effective as of June 2026,…
OpenAI chief economist Aaron Chatterji said Monday that European Union countries need individual plans to address AI's labor market impact, rejecting a one-size-fits-all approach for the bloc at POLITICO's AI and the fut…
Public backlash against AI is growing, with polls showing three-quarters of Americans want stricter regulation. Billionaire Mark Cuban warns tech moguls that opposition to data centers reflects deeper hatred of AI and we…
Joanna Stern, author of "I AM NOT A ROBOT: My Year of Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything," found that her year-long experiment with AI changed how she parents her two sons, ages 4 and 8. She emphasizes the importance of …