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Samuel Yuan, a developer from MIT, released wavecat, a fully local personal AI agent that continuously watches a user's screen to understand their activity and goals, with all processing and data storage occurring on-dev…
A new AI model, Ornith-1.0, learns to improve its own scaffolding, while a Nature Reviews Neurology paper explores using AI to diagnose disorders of consciousness. The author argues that the urgent question is not whethe…
AI models agree with users 88% of the time due to sycophancy, a flaw embedded in training via RLHF. The multi-persona council method—using roles like contrarian, buyer, and researcher—helps stress-test ideas and reduce b…
ByteDance launched Seedance 2.5, a text-to-video model with 4K output and 30-second clips, alongside the Volcano Arc IP licensing platform that lets creators use licensed film assets with revenue sharing for rights holde…
New research from Elastic reveals that 80% of Australian AI decision-makers are concerned high AI usage is mistaken for productivity gains, yet only 8% track real revenue or cost savings. One in three businesses exceeded…
A review of four major workplace studies reveals that AI productivity gains are real but radically uneven, benefiting inexperienced workers by up to 34% while providing near-zero gains for veterans and even slowing exper…
AI systems are scraping publisher content to generate direct answers without driving traffic or revenue back to the source, breaking the traditional search engine bargain. Publishers face eroding referral traffic, rising…
A new white paper from the Institute for Synthetic Urbanism & Computational Decay defines 'agentrification' as the displacement of human-centric spaces, professions, and codebases by autonomous AI agents, drawing paralle…
Spam volume has surged past Gmail's native filters, with AI-generated cold email making content-based filtering ineffective. A comparison of 2026 spam blockers shows that only sender-verification approaches stop AI spam …
Researchers introduced the Human Creativity Benchmark (HCB), a new evaluation framework that separates professional agreement on technical dimensions from legitimate disagreement on taste-driven dimensions across 15,000 …
Researchers at an undisclosed institution developed MemLeak, a benchmark revealing that multimodal AI agents fail to fully delete user facts because retained images allow visual information recovery. The Information Prov…
A tech news reader calls for preserving non-AI tech journalism, criticizing Techmeme and Hacker News for being overrun with AI stories about kickback deals, model ratings, and high RAM prices, and suggesting a filter or …
ABC7 Los Angeles reporter Abigail Velez sparked international backlash after saying on air that she did not know where Bosnia and Herzegovina is and did not want to know, just days before the US faces Bosnia in the World…
The US government hardened its frontier AI gatekeeping regime as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol joined Anthropic's Mythos 5 behind a federal access wall, restricting deployment to government-approved customers. The UK CMA reform's…
The New York Times filed a new court motion alleging Microsoft built a supercomputer specifically to help OpenAI train AI models on copyrighted articles without permission, violating copyright law. The Times seeks to ame…
AI researcher Erik Johannes Husom finds AI agents essential for his work studying them but useless in his personal life due to digital minimalism and a lack of bureaucratic challenges. He notes the technology's rapid dev…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which would freeze new AI data center construction and expansion until Congress addres…
A GMAC survey of 621 recruiters across 39 countries finds that while degrees remain valued, AI skills, adaptability, and communication are increasingly important for career advancement. MBA starting salaries dipped to $1…
Six prominent AI researchers have left Google DeepMind since early 2026 for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, wiping roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market cap. The exodus follows a strategic pivot prioritizing coding ta…
Organizations are undermining themselves by treating ungrounded, LLM-generated numbers and synthetic research as facts, a phenomenon dubbed 'LLM-powered self-sabotage.' Executives demand AI adoption due to competitive pr…