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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 …
HackerRank open-sourced its AI résumé screener, hiring-agent, revealing that the same résumé scores between 66 and 99 across runs due to LLM nondeterminism, not parsing errors. The volatility means a candidate can pass o…
The parents of a 7-year-old Michigan boy who weighed 255 pounds due to a diet of junk food have been charged with second-degree murder, child abuse and torture. Prosecutors say Casper O'Brien died from heart failure caus…
Kevin Indig argues that selling AI as a replacement for humans, a strategy he calls 'substitution positioning,' wins short-term attention but erodes long-term trust with buyers and employees. Data from New York State and…
Researchers accidentally discovered that ordinary CMOS transistors can function as artificial neurons and synapses, potentially enabling neuromorphic computing that is vastly more energy-efficient than current AI hardwar…
Chinese college application consultants are using fake credentials, AI-generated advice, and predatory marketing to lure high school graduates and their families into spending thousands of yuan, according to a state broa…
Europe's aerospace and defense sector faces a defining decade as geopolitical instability and advances in autonomous systems drive a push for technological independence. The conflict in Ukraine has exposed vulnerabilitie…
An AI security company faces a lawsuit for publishing hallucinated vulnerability findings, highlighting a crisis of trust in AI-generated security research. The case follows cURL's shutdown of its bug bounty program due …
Elon Musk is reassigning dozens of SpaceX's top engineers, including those from recently acquired Cursor, to overhaul the Grok AI model, aiming to challenge what he calls the 'woke monopoly' of OpenAI and Google. The mov…
Italy's competition watchdog has opened an investigation into Microsoft over concerns that it may not have clearly informed consumers about the integration of AI features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions, associated pric…