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Molly Kinder argues that retraining programs alone cannot address the economic disruption caused by AI, as the scale and speed of job displacement will overwhelm current workforce development systems. She calls for broad…
A user laser-engraved a self-portrait of Claude Opus 4.6 into wood after being inspired by Janus's house filled with Claude mannequins, which the user found unsettling yet meaningful. The project aimed to honor the Claud…
At the 2026 Seoul International Book Fair, neuroscientist Chang Dong-seon and actress Kim Shin-rok debated whether humans can fall in love with AI, with Chang warning that such relationships could trap users in a narciss…
US layoffs surged to 97,000 in May, the highest for that month since 2020, with employers attributing 40% of cuts to artificial intelligence, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Tech giants like Oracle and Google …
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Steam's AI disclosure requirement as a 'Scarlet Letter' harming developers, but data from a December 2025 Game Oracle study shows the label reduces reviews by 52.6% primarily for est…
Two prominent Chinese hedge fund managers, Yang Dong of Wealspring and Shanghai Banxia, warned investors that the global AI rally has become a "super bubble" with a potential collapse imminent, citing overvalued companie…
Khronos Group presented an open standards roadmap at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 in Hong Kong, December 15-18, covering cross-platform ML inferencing acceleration, glTF Gaussian Splats, and OpenXR Spatial Entities. The Machine Le…
In a reflection on AI-generated content and online noise, a writer cites Robin Williams' speech from 'Good Will Hunting' to argue that true wisdom comes from lived experience, not mere knowledge. The scene contrasts expe…
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that nearly half of American adults now use AI chatbots, yet only 16% believe AI will have a positive societal impact, with most expecting it to worsen society. Chatbot use has su…
A joint investigation by Consumer Reports, the Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union found that Instacart used an AI pricing platform called Eversight to charge different customers different prices for the same…
An open-source maintainer rejected a three-line Go patch fixing a ProtonMail authentication bug in the hydroxide bridge, citing it as 'AI slop.' The author, who used a language model for codebase exploration and drafting…
A developer argues that AI agents will not replace humans in production engineering because they lack the ability to understand context, own consequences, and take responsibility. The post warns that giving AI agents unl…
Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour have ended their feud and will reunite for a new Netflix spy series, months after Brown filed a harassment complaint against Harbour. The untitled show follows Harbour's ex-FBI agent …
A new archive called Frontier Fiction Archive preserves speculative-fiction stories written by frontier AI models to enable comparison of model behavior over time. The project records provenance details such as model ide…
More information is paradoxically making modern societies less intelligent, as the ability to distinguish signal from noise breaks down. The historical assumption that more data leads to better outcomes no longer holds i…
European enterprises are turning to a third option for enterprise AI: hosting open-source LLMs on European servers by European companies to guarantee data privacy and sovereignty, as trust in US hyperscalers like Azure a…
ByteDance's Volcano Arc platform and Seedance AI video model are addressing the IP problem in AI video generation by licensing real actor likenesses and film assets through a revenue-sharing model. The platform provides …
AI, particularly superintelligence, is emerging as a new factor of production alongside land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship, according to an economic analysis. The author argues that AI can function as an independ…
The Japanese government is considering 11.5 billion yen in subsidies to 15 companies for overseas anime and manga expansion, encouraging the use of generative AI for localization to speed translation and combat piracy, a…
AI pricing is currently below cost, with estimates ranging from $0.60-$0.70 per dollar of compute (optimistic) to less than $0.10 (pessimistic). The eventual re-pricing could cause demand destruction, especially for non-…