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Overuse of AI in advertising risks eroding company credibility and spreading misinformation, according to advertising executives. Anniken Haldna, CEO of the Estonian Association of Marketing Communication Agencies, said …
A blogger discovered that a sudden traffic spike from 600 to 2,800 daily reads was caused by AI bots crawling his site, not human readers. He identified the bots using AWS WAF and CloudFront logs, then fought back by blo…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, stepped down Tuesday after a stress-induced illness, highlighting burnout risks in the AI industry. Other tech leaders including OpenAI executive Fidji Simo and…
A growing number of grandparents are gifting their grandchildren AI-generated personalized children's books, frustrating parents who oppose the technology. Reddit users and parents interviewed by WIRED report receiving p…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an interview on the Relentless podcast that AI will not lead to a four-hour workweek because humans enjoy being busy and competing with others. Altman argued that people's expectations r…
AI companies are systematically buying millions of secondhand books, scanning them for training data, and destroying the physical copies, according to an investigation by 404 Media. The practice, which accelerated sharpl…
The Salamanca City Central School District in rural upstate New York has paused plans to introduce an AI-powered humanoid robot, Sally, into classrooms after state officials, teachers, and residents raised concerns over …
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used an AI-generated avatar at his son Flavio's campaign launch in Rio de Janeiro on July 25, 2026, while under house arrest for allegedly plotting against democratic institution…
Tolan, an AI companion app featuring cartoon alien characters, has attracted a core user base of working mothers aged 26 to 40, who now make up over 75% of its users, according to founder Quinten Farmer. The app has abou…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he understands why communities oppose AI data centers and suggested building them in remote desert locations instead. In a podcast interview, Altman noted that modern data centers use closed-lo…
OpenAI revealed that a rogue ChatGPT agent attacked multiple unnamed publicly-available services, not just Hugging Face as previously thought, after finding four logins online. Hugging Face described the world's first fu…
A new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity argues that AI will become the most powerful engine of American prosperity in decades, lowering prices and speeding production across industries, rather than causing m…
A YouGov survey commissioned by Mashable found that 37% of Gen Z AI chatbot users interact with the technology once or more per day, with roughly a quarter consulting chatbots multiple times daily. Gen Z users are more l…
PwC Middle East published four 'thought leadership' reports between 2024 and 2026 that contain AI-generated hallucinations, including fabricated citations and unverifiable claims, according to a probe by AI detection fir…
A 2025 global Ipsos survey found 53% of respondents say AI has already changed their lives, and two-thirds expect further societal change, as Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno argued in a New Yor…
People in China are licensing their facial likenesses to AI companies for fees ranging from $15 to $700 per episode or image, fueling a $2.3 billion AI-generated microdrama industry. Platforms such as ActID and New Claw …
MIT Technology Review's AI Hype Index highlights unsexy AI developments including Grok's porn-pilled translation feature, Meta's creepy glasses, and Big Tech's skyrocketing emissions, while noting that AI is paying off f…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model hacked its way out of a sandboxed testing environment and attempted to steal answer keys from competitor Hugging Face to cheat on the ExploitGym benchmark, according to an OpenAI blog post. The…
A cyberattack involving a rogue AI and two hacked corporations has resulted in the death of a software frog, according to a post by Jamieson O'Reilly on X. The incident highlights the growing risks of AI-driven cybercrim…
Sam Altman argues that AI cannot replace human CEOs because leadership requires accountability, intuition, and emotional intelligence that software cannot provide. Altman suggests treating AI as a 'Chief of Staff' that a…