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Google DeepMind released Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, updating its generative-music system with improved musicality, lyrics, vocals and creative control. Flow Music offers a free tier and paid plans at $8, $24 or $64 …
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan was locked out of his Microsoft email account in May 2025 after the Trump administration sanctioned him, illustrating how cloud infrastructure answers to the…
Law firm associates are leaving billable-hour jobs to join legal AI startups as legal engineers, automating tasks like contract review that once took 50 to 100 hours down to 15 minutes, according to Miranda Hatch at Norm…
A moral panic has erupted over AI companies buying and destroying old books to train models, but the claims are vastly exaggerated. The original 404 Media report on July 21st noted that AI firms use brokers to purchase b…
Harvard Kennedy School professor warns students that using AI for writing assignments wastes tuition money, citing a distinction between work and the gym from AI researcher Daniel Meissler to explain when AI is appropria…
The International Energy Agency and Goldman Sachs Research project data center power demand could rise 165% by 2030, with AI and data centers becoming a major source of electricity demand. The author argues that enterpri…
House Energy and Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone demanded that Elon Musk provide emissions data and permit records for xAI's Colossus data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi, which run on 59 unpermitted…
Author Charles Graeber will receive $6,200 from Anthropic as part of a $1.5 billion class-action settlement over unauthorized use of his books to train the Claude chatbot, but he says the years-long fight left him 'much …
A July 30, 2026 essay argues that large language models, as averaging engines, eliminate the beneficial variation and error that drive cultural and biological evolution, warning that this creates a monoculture where nove…
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 projects 170 million new roles and 92 million displaced by 2030, a net gain of about 78 million jobs, against structural churn of roughly 22% of the workforce. The re…
Palantir Technologies, co-founded by CEO Alex Karp, has become a controversial data analytics company whose name derives from the Tolkien palantír meaning 'to keep watch from afar,' with bulls viewing it as a guardian an…
AI-assisted pull requests contain 1.7 times more issues than purely human-written code, according to CodeRabbit's State of AI vs Human Code Generation report analyzing 470 real-world GitHub pull requests. The report foun…
Amazon and Walmart AI shopping assistants can detect false 'Made in USA' product labels but are not using that capability to remove the listings, according to a study from Columbia Law School's Center for Law and the Eco…
Entry-level data engineering jobs have collapsed 67% since generative AI went mainstream, with only 3% of postings explicitly for juniors in 2026, according to an analysis of 6,877 active roles. Stanford's Digital Econom…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned on the "Invest Like the Best" podcast that cognitive atrophy is an overlooked risk of the AI era, asking how people will avoid letting AI weaken their own thinking. Altman's comments align wi…
Google's new AI-assisted coding interview for L3 and L4 engineers, piloted since May 2026 on teams like Google Cloud and Platforms & Devices, is harder than traditional interviews because it tests candidates' ability to …
A new interactive prototype, 'Two Eyes Arguing,' stages real-time moral disagreements between two AI-driven eyes, each anchored to a different 'order of worth' from the sociology of justification by Luc Boltanski and Lau…
Elon Musk's xAI sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Monday, days before the state's first-in-the-nation ban on AI nudification apps takes effect August 1. The 38-page lawsuit argues the law is overly broad, …
A Michigan mother shared a mail advertisement featuring AI-generated teddy bear art that was widely mocked on Reddit for its distorted appearance, with one commenter calling it an 'AI nightmare.' The user Antistis posted…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers on Thursday, giving 100,000 scientists free access to its GPT-5.6 Sol Pro model worth $200 per month, but critics warn the program is a strategic land grab that routes res…