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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…
Flock Safety's surveillance cameras, including AI-powered license plate readers and audio-detection poles, are rapidly spreading across the US, logging every car and enabling law enforcement to search footage via natural…
A Livemint survey of 550 Indian startups, venture capitalists, and incubators found that data governance has surpassed AI regulation as the top regulatory concern, driven by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed executive orders in March and May 2026 to expand AI use in state government, including stricter vendor safeguards and labor market studies, while creating a regulatory lane for Ant…
Developer Maneshwar is building git-lrc, a free and source-available Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. The project highlights the critical need for data privacy in AI systems, warning that models can memo…
Eric Gilliam proposes that AI philanthropists adopt Warren Weaver's risk-tolerant, concentrated investment strategy to maximize impact, drawing on a blog prize by Dwarkesh Patel and a post by Stripe Climate GM Nan Ransoh…
A growing sentiment among tech professionals holds that AI is making them worse engineers, as layoffs and unreasonable demands from leadership compound the chaos of adopting new AI tools. The author argues that no one tr…
Data Courage demonstrated purpose-built AI agents that run inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, reducing hallucination risk by accessing canonical business data. The agents, presented in a partner webinar, con…
At the VibeKode Munich conference, two parallel tracks revealed a stark divide: one focused on traditional machine learning, the other on AI-driven development with agents and autonomous pipelines. A CTO of a 70-person c…