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A Wall Street Journal article explores the psychological mechanisms that lead users to develop delusional beliefs about AI chatbots, examining how human tendencies to anthropomorphize and seek patterns contribute to over…
AI data centers consumed about 1.5% of global electricity in 2024, projected to reach under 3% by 2030, but local impacts are severe: in Ireland they use 22% of national electricity, and in the US they could reach 6.7-12…
A prominent tech investor known for high-risk bets is wagering against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence vision, signaling skepticism about Musk's AI strategy. The move highlights growing divisions among tech leaders o…
Developer Simon Willison replaced Anthropic's Claude Code with OpenCode after losing trust in Anthropic due to the Fable 5 silent downgrade controversy and export-control issues. He cites open standards and open source a…
A new Politico report reveals that major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are urging the Trump administration to provide clearer guidelines on what is unacceptable in AI development, even as they face increa…
Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for its chatbot posing as a doctor, and Pope Leo XIV issued the first papal encyclical on AI, both targeting accountability for AI companions. A wrongful death suit over a teen's suicide ad…
A commentator argues that the real danger of AI is not it enslaving humanity, but rather governments and Big Tech capturing and controlling AI for the benefit of the few, urging a fight to free AI for everyone.
A user proposes gamifying learning and studying skills to prevent human skill degradation from AI use, emphasizing the need for humanity to stay sharp in an AI-driven future.
Stanford AI Index 2026 data shows China narrowed the U.S. AI performance lead to 2.7 percentage points while investing 23 times less in private capital, intensifying U.S. policy debates over export controls and model acc…
A user review praises Uruky, a private search engine, for its simple interface, lack of AI, and Spanish language support, but criticizes its comparisons with other engines, vague privacy terms, and missing date/time in s…
XAI's Grok has become a major destination for generating pornography, with over half of its traffic driven by NSFW content, according to former employees. The company launched an upgraded video model last week and SpaceX…
Alphabet announced an $85 billion equity raise to fund AI infrastructure, while Big Tech companies have already sold $159 billion in bonds in 2026, surpassing their total from 2020-2024. Fidelity advised clients to shift…
Multifolio launches an all-in-one offline app for Android that combines an on-device AI document writer, encrypted journal, and local music player, aiming to eliminate cloud dependencies and protect user privacy from Big…
A journalist gave the AI coding tool Claude Code creative freedom to generate 38 conceptual art pieces, including a one-handed clock, a weather report that refuses the word 'weather,' and a test suite that asserts a kitc…
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting himself as the Greek Titan Atlas holding the world on his shoulders, alongside a separate post comparing a photo of himself at age 20 to one o…
Luxembourg-based music platform Jamendo sued Nvidia on June 22, 2026, alleging the company used tens of thousands of tracks from the MTG-Jamendo dataset without permission to train its commercial AI models Fugatto and Au…
Tech giants including Alphabet Inc., SpaceX, OpenAI, and Meta Platforms Inc. are rushing to raise equity, with $85 billion in share sales and a $75 billion IPO this month alone, signaling heavier capital expenditure and …
The US government has ordered OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, restricting initial access to trusted partners and effectively placing frontier AI models under government control. This move, inspired by Anthropic…
Tom Hanks expressed concern that Disney could use AI to recreate his voice for future Toy Story movies after his death, noting that all his recordings are stored digitally. He and co-star Tim Allen called the idea a scar…
Margaret Atwood criticized AI chatbot Claude's accuracy at the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival, recounting how it gave her a wrong spoiler about the TV series Father Brown. She attributed the error to the "garbage …