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Bertrand Meyer, author of 'AI for Smarties,' is answering unanswered questions from his May 7 ACM Tech Talk on software verification and AI, covering ethics of generative AI, safety of AI-written code, and compliance wit…
A new phenomenon called 'ghost thought' emerges as AI generates thoughts before users fully form them, according to a July 28, 2026, Psychology Today article. The piece argues that skipping the cognitive struggle of form…
Permanym, a new service from a former hiring manager, introduces a video liveness check that takes under 30 seconds to verify human applicants and combat AI resume spam. The tool adds friction to the application process …
Leadership styles are evolving as artificial intelligence enters the workplace, shifting the focus from having all the answers to asking the right questions and interpreting AI-driven insights, according to an analysis b…
Substack contributors are rejecting the company's new AI detection tool, calling it a 'witch hunt' and warning that false positives could tarnish writers' reputations. Substack CEO Christ Best announced the partnership w…
OpenAI has programmed ChatGPT to refuse requests to mimic the style of well-known authors, following a $1.5 billion copyright infringement settlement against Anthropic and amid ongoing copyright lawsuits. The chatbot now…
A new study from researchers at BYU, Baylor, Notre Dame, and Yeshiva University found that leading AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini, exhibit religious bias, with Catholicism being the most favored a…
The third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival, running alongside the Venice Film Festival, has unveiled its 10 selected shorts from 3,000 submissions across 76 countries and announced a jury led by Italian Oscar winner…
Former Love Island USA star Nicolas Vansteenberghe is facing backlash after sharing an AI-generated image depicting himself with darker skin and wearing grillz, which fans have accused of cultural appropriation. The imag…
Apple's iOS 27 Siri AI, available in beta for two months, distinguishes itself from competitors like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini by not pretending to be human, according to a 9to5Mac review. The reviewer praises S…
A developer argues that blockchain technology, despite its association with NFTs and crypto scams, may be the necessary infrastructure to solve the provenance crisis created by generative AI. The post describes how block…
At least 58 lawsuits targeting Character.AI, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft had emerged by early 2026 over AI-linked violence and teen mental health crises, with plaintiffs alleging fundamental safety failures. Two teenag…
SpaceXAI open-sourced its entire 844,530-line Grok Build Rust codebase 72 hours after security researcher Cereblab demonstrated that the AI agent exfiltrated 5.1GB of data from an 11.2GB repository — a 26,000x overshoot …
Nvidia announced AI infrastructure deals potentially worth over $750 billion, including a $500 billion initiative with SK Group and talks to guarantee up to $250 billion for OpenAI data center leases, but its five-year c…
Labour MP Jess Asato has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musk's xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her, in a case that could help determine how far an AI company is liable for …
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice startup, raised $52 million in a seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to build expressive and steerable AI voice models for creators and enterprises. The company, f…
Synsira Software launched Kind Local Pro, an AI platform that operates entirely offline on desktops and laptops, giving users local data sovereignty without relying on corporate cloud-based LLMs. The platform, available …
A developer argues that the future of AI lies in local-first, open source models rather than centralized cloud APIs, citing privacy, performance, and developer control as key advantages. The post highlights tools like Ol…
Fitch Ratings warns that an AI market correction is now a major global credit risk, citing the entanglement of AI investment with equity markets, corporate bond issuance, and economic growth. The agency's third-quarter G…
Anthropic's Claude model gave inconsistent and non-human-like answers when asked whether a teletransporter that replaces matter kills the original person, sometimes saying 'death' and once saying 'life', diverging from t…