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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…
The EU is set to ban nudify apps, but a new report from AI Forensics argues the ban misses the point because the tools that undress people are hosted on Hugging Face. The nonprofit tested seven of the top nine image-edit…
The U.S. elder care system faces a structural crisis with 61.2 million adults aged 65+ today projected to reach 82 million by 2050, nearly 29% living alone, and chronic understaffing in nursing homes and home care agenci…
The concentration of AI compute power in the US is widening the global digital divide, according to Stanford AI Index data showing the US hosts over 5,000 data centers—ten times more than any other nation—and accounts fo…
Indonesia's Ministry of Creative Economy and Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs are preparing sector-specific AI guidelines for 21 creative-economy subsectors as part of two draft presidential regulations cove…
A new analysis warns that artificial intelligence is deepening global digital inequality, with the United States hosting over 5,000 data centers—more than ten times any other country—and accounting for roughly 87 percent…
Forward-deployed engineering (FDE) has become a critical operating pattern for enterprise artificial intelligence, as agentic AI systems require careful engineering of business context, workflow boundaries, controls, obs…
AI detection startup Pangram raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures to combat AI-generated content flooding the internet, as it launches its next-generation text detection model Pangram 4, which it cl…
AI companies are purchasing rare and out-of-print books in bulk, cutting off their spines, scanning the pages, and then disposing of the originals, according to court documents and industry reports. A federal judge ruled…
AI companies are buying, scanning, and shredding rare and out-of-print books to train their models, according to a report by News Corp Australia. The practice involves acquiring physical copies, digitizing them, and then…
Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng said she is stepping down because of stress and illness, writing that she has been ill more often in the past seven months than at any other point in her life and cannot contin…
A developer credits AI researcher Andrej Karpathy with changing their skeptical view of AI for programming, comparing Karpathy's passionate, hype-free explanations of LLMs to John Hammond in Jurassic Park. The developer …