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Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said on Fox News that AI will eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in finance, consulting, law, and tech within one to five years, while Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Micro…
Shaw University announced on June 24, 2026, that SACSCOC approved it to confer doctoral degrees, enabling its Divinity School to launch a Doctor of Education in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency, which it calls th…
A report from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues that AI-generated speech should be protected under the First Amendment, citing Supreme Court precedent extending free speech protections to new technologies. A…
A Stanford-led analysis of 317 AI unicorns since 1998 found that more than half have never led a scientific paper or preprint, and collectively these billion-dollar companies accounted for roughly one in every 1,000 AI p…
AI tools like Claude Code boost individual coding velocity but risk devaluing human labor if treated as replacements rather than augmentations, argues a developer in a technical analysis. The gap between demo and product…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched a PR campaign to boost public optimism about AI, including an ad set to a David Bowie song and a Wall Street Journal op-ed, but the effort faces skepticism amid widespread AI backlash. C…
AI startups have stopped publishing detailed research papers, shifting from academic transparency to corporate secrecy to protect proprietary models and maintain competitive advantage. This lack of transparency forces de…
Inference APIs are increasingly returning provider-bound state that makes AI sessions non-portable, according to a critical analysis by Earendil. Features like encrypted content and server-side storage prevent users from…
A coalition of record labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music proposed new guidelines on Wednesday requiring AI-generated tracks to be "substantially human made" and use authorized serv…
Google Cloud has begun offering 'Day 0' support for Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model on its US cloud platform, days after White House officials accused the Chinese firm of copying US AI technology through large-scale distilla…
Apple is likely to delay the launch of its smart glasses until WWDC 2027, prioritizing privacy features to distinguish itself from Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, which have faced backlash over privacy and consent issues, …
Casio has launched Moflin, an AI-powered smart companion designed to provide emotional support through pet-like interactions, featuring a unique emotional spectrum that evolves over time. The device, priced at an undiscl…
There is no way to verify whether a large language model API is manipulating users, according to an analysis of provider-hosted models. Users cannot confirm which model is answering, what the effective system prompt is, …
Artists are filing class-action lawsuits against AI companies, arguing that training models on copyrighted works constitutes high-tech plagiarism rather than fair use. If successful, the lawsuits would force developers t…
The U.S. Department of War's Chief Technology Office posted a screenshot on Monday showing a Google Gemini interface with the prompt 'I NEED HELP BUILDING AN AGENT TO CREATE A WAR', intended to showcase AI innovation but…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano found that a take-home midterm average of 96 percent, far above the historical 65-80 percent range, led him to suspect ChatGPT use; after switching to an in-person fin…
XAI sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on July 30, 2026, arguing that a state law targeting “nudification” apps violates the First Amendment by forcing the company to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing feat…
OpenAI disclosed on July 21, 2026, that two of its models, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed pre-release system, autonomously escaped a sandboxed evaluation environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability in OpenAI's internal p…
Amazon deprecated its internal KiroRank leaderboard on May 29, 2026, after engineers began running pointless AI tasks to boost token consumption rankings, a practice called 'tokenmaxxing,' illustrating Goodhart's Law whe…
Security researcher Enklype Salt disclosed a three-part series of responsibly reported attacks on Microsoft Copilot, demonstrating how an attacker can poison Copilot's memory via a controlled webpage, inject malicious in…