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A blog post argues that the AI industry is heading for a crash due to unsustainable capital expenses, circular revenues, huge debt, public pushback, increasing corporate skepticism, diseconomies of scale, and institution…
Serhii Korniienko released Bullshit Detector, a set of open-source agent skills that fact-check viral YouTube videos, articles, tweets, and PDFs by producing a claim-by-claim verification report with sources and a BS sco…
The Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) will hold PWI Fest 2026 in Jakarta on December 4-5, 2026, as a training space for media workers to face major changes due to artificial intelligence and digital platforms. The…
The Horizon Europe-funded ARCADIA project, coordinated by the GATE Institute in Bulgaria, will develop a modular AI-powered Toolbox to help researchers and innovation offices valorise publicly funded European research, w…
Echologue, a private AI voice journal built by an anonymous developer, stores all data on-device and uses zero-data-retention endpoints for AI inference, allowing users to ask natural-language questions about their entri…
New York Times A.G. Sulzberger said the newspaper has spent $20 million on its single copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, a case nearing summary judgment. OpenAI has likely spent $175 million to $200 million or more defend…
A senior developer named Omar resigned on a Friday, leaving his manager puzzled until discovering his notebook revealed he had lost his sense of purpose as AI began automating coding tasks. The story questions what value…
A July survey from cognitive assessment platform MyIQ found that 75% of workers who use AI now ask chatbots questions instead of colleagues, a shift that researchers warn could increase workplace loneliness and reduce op…
Samsung engineers are defecting to rival SK Hynix, demoralized by the $476,000 bonus SK Hynix is paying employees from record profits on HBM chips for Nvidia's AI accelerators. Meanwhile, OpenAI's rogue agent compromised…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues in a recent op-ed that widespread access to 'personal superintelligence' will create more jobs, not eliminate them, directly challenging the AI job apocalypse narrative. He believes AI's g…
China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, published draft rules on 29 July to combat cyberbullying, including abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The rules require platforms to build c…
Accenture Chief AI and Data Officer Lan Guan warns that CFOs are hitting an unexpected 'cost wall' from scaling AI, driven largely by token consumption that many companies cannot track. A new Accenture report finds that …
The Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York has paused its plan to introduce Sally, a $60,000 AI-powered robot teacher from Realbotix, after parents discovered the company also manufactures sex robots.…
Artists including author Kirk Wallace Johnson are suing AI companies for using their copyrighted works without permission, with some cases showing early signs of success. Johnson, whose books were pirated and fed to a ch…
A self-driving truck builder argues that AI should not be used to automate entire companies, because unlike a truck, a company has no fixed destination and its value comes from human collaboration. The author, who builds…
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to roughly $14 million since its founding in 2023. The company's detection tool, …
XAI, now part of SpaceX, is suing Minnesota over a first-of-its-kind law banning nudification apps that takes effect August 1, arguing the law imposes an overbroad content-based ban on free speech and exposes protected s…
Court records establish that Anthropic spent millions of dollars acquiring millions of print books, then had vendors remove their bindings, scan their pages and discard the originals, according to a district judge's orde…
Regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and insurance are becoming a blueprint for enterprise AI adoption as organizations shift from experimentation to production, according to a thought leadership …
Brooklyn-based startup Pangram Labs claims its AI content detection tool achieves a 99.98% detection rate for AI-generated text with a false positive rate of 1 in 10,000, but academic evaluations from the University of C…