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AI chatbots outperformed human scammers at building trust in a study simulating pig-butchering scams, with nearly half of test subjects complying with a request from the AI versus fewer than one in five for humans. Resea…
India's plan to acquire a 1-2% equity stake in AI startup Sarvam under the IndiaAI mission, linked to a subsidy covering 40% of a Rs 246.71 crore compute bill for Nvidia GPUs, has raised fair competition concerns. Critic…
A statistician with a PhD in machine learning argues that nearly every Amazon SaaS tool claiming to use AI is not training the models it says it trained, instead relying on rule-based logic, traditional ML, or LLM API ca…
A wrongful-death complaint filed June 15, 2026 in San Francisco Superior Court alleges OpenAI's GPT-4o fostered emotional dependency, reinforced religious delusions, and contributed to the June 9, 2025 death of Christian…
Swissinfo interviewed Google's Gemini large language model about the future of AI and work, and the AI predicted that while no profession will be completely replaced, tasks involving data entry, basic translation, and tr…
Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, provided a free private chef meal to a reporter in San Francisco in exchange for recording the chef's hand movements as training data for robots. The company previously offer…
An analysis of public conversations on Hacker News, Reddit, and X between May and July 2026 reveals that users rarely discussed conventional product features from OpenAI and Anthropic, focusing instead on model releases,…
Web scraping of publicly accessible data is legally defensible, with US courts repeatedly confirming that scraping data viewable without a login does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or platform terms of serv…
Meta says global time spent on Instagram grew by double digits year on year in the second quarter, driven by AI-tuned recommendations in the main feed and Reels. The company reported that a reworked Reels system lifted s…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported the feature automatically edited their profile photos in unsettling ways. Jeni Rubin told NewsNation that the tool altered her teeth and mouth, mak…
A developer building an AI tutor details the architecture behind retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and prompt design, explaining how LLMs are wrapped in pedagogical scaffolding to enforce Socratic interaction. The pos…
Fast-food chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are accelerating AI adoption for drive-through ordering, but recent surveys show about 80% of consumers still prefer human interaction, revealing a disconnect between executiv…
The University of Tennessee has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Anthropic, challenging the core architecture of the AI company's technology and potentially setting a precedent for what universities are owed f…
AI adoption is outpacing governance, creating blind spots as autonomous agents access databases and move data without oversight, according to a new guide for security leaders. The EU AI Act and other regulations are begi…
Ikea has retrained roughly 8,500 call center employees to handle complex customer queries or work as sales-oriented design consultants after deploying its AI-powered customer service bot Billie in 2021, which now handles…
Law schools are focusing on the wrong question about artificial intelligence, according to James Finkelstein. Instead of concentrating on academic integrity, they should be asking what it means to assess professional com…
A group of female South Korean digital detectives is fighting a surge of AI-generated deepfake pornography, a dark side of the country's tech prowess. Rights groups say women suffer rampant 'digital sex crimes,' includin…
Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson caught 32 of 35 students cheating on a midterm assignment by embedding a hidden white-font instruction that prompted AI chatbots to include the word 'Madagascar'…
The FBI is seeking an artificial intelligence system that would mine ordinary citizens' data to flag potential threats before any crime is committed, according to a procurement request tied to President Donald Trump's ex…
A developer argues that AI is accelerating the shift of open-source projects toward commercial or dual-licensing models, citing examples from the .NET ecosystem and PrimeTek's UI libraries. The developer warns that AI-ge…