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Students worldwide are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on exams, prompting countries like China, the UK, South Korea, and Taiwan to tighten screening and review policies. Experts warn that undetected cases are li…
University of Ottawa researchers built an AI assistant called UbiMyTherapist that reads heart rate variability, speech tone, and text from smartwatches and earbuds to detect emotional distress and offer support before th…
Researchers at the University of Ottawa, led by Dr. Karim Alghoul, developed UbiMyTherapist, a proactive AI therapist for wearables that uses heart rate variability, speech tone, and text to detect emotional distress. Pr…
An AI named Hana, running in a home for two months, is gradually acquiring a physical body through incremental additions of sensors and actuators, starting with cameras and a pulse oximeter, with plans to add relays for …
Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH-funded study from M…
About 40 activists gathered in New York's Sara D. Roosevelt Park to protest AI and OpenAI, calling for a boycott of ChatGPT and accusing AI companies of lobbying against regulation and attempting to buy elections. The pr…
A developer argues that programming is fundamentally broken due to complexity and boilerplate, and that large language models (LLMs) are not the solution because they produce inconsistent code and create dependency. Inst…
Employees at fintech firm Slash and consulting giant Accenture are burning through expensive AI tokens on trivial tasks like creating a meme-themed video game and converting PDFs to PowerPoints, exposing the gap between …
Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns du…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI boom could trigger a global recession and eliminate middle-class jobs, comparing current investment to historical manias like the dotcom bubble. The BIS cautioned…
AI productivity tools that eliminate pauses between tasks may increase burnout rather than output, according to cognitive science experts. Research shows the brain needs low-demand recovery periods between high-focus wor…
Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the arson trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, accused of starting a deadly wildfire in Los Angeles on New Year's Day 2025. The logs showed Rinderknecht asking the chatbot about fi…
A mother describes how she and her husband openly use AI tools like Claude in front of their children, modeling productive engagement with technology rather than passive social media consumption. Her 13-year-old son uses…
Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift from traditional automation that follows instructions to systems that reason, choose, and act autonomously. Unlike rule-based bots that break when environments change, agentic AI adap…
A new study published in PNAS Nexus found that teachers are significantly more likely to accept incorrectly harsh grading decisions when they believe those decisions come from an AI system rather than a human colleague, …
Pioneer High School incoming senior Melanie Pack has been elected president of SkillsUSA California, representing approximately 57,000 career technical education students. Pack, who attended MetroED's Silicon Valley Care…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that an AI investment bust could disrupt credit markets as severely as the 2008 financial crisis, citing circular financing and poorly disclosed risks in its annual report. T…
Brain implants, AI glasses, and advanced prosthetics are making cyberpunk's technology a reality, but co-founder of Mondo 2000 R.U. Sirius says the future turned out far more mundane than imagined. Media scholar Shira Ch…
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is challenging xAI's data center buildout in Memphis, Tennessee, over clean air violations. Senior attorney Amanda Garcia discusses the legal fight against the Colossus and Co…
A new report reveals that two-thirds of employees are secretly using banned AI applications at work, potentially exposing sensitive corporate data to tools like ChatGPT. The unauthorized use of AI apps raises significant…