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A new guide on Towards AI explains 25 core AI concepts in simple, jargon-free language, aiming to make the technology accessible to general readers.
Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce earlier this year but increased engineering headcount by 45%, from 1,308 to 1,894 engineers, according to BNP Paribas data. CEO Matthew Prince said AI is shifting value from 'measurer'…
Billionaire Mark Cuban said the fight over data centers is a 'proxy for hate' toward AI and wealth concentration, arguing the controversy has 'nothing to do with data centers.' Cuban made the remarks amid growing opposit…
A developer argues that the true measure of an AI agent's agency is not the number of tools it can access but the action contract governing what it can change, prove, escalate, and revoke. The post introduces a five-laye…
Open source large language models will never match closed-source models due to inherent safety limitations, argues a commentator. Without multi-layered guardrails—baked-in safety, real-time flagging, and offline batch an…
Adobe updated its Generative AI User Guidelines on May 15, 2026, prohibiting the creation of pornographic, hateful, violent, or deceptive content, and requiring respect for third-party rights. The company reserves the ri…
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson's updated data from a partnership with ADP Research shows that employment for workers ages 22 to 25 in AI-exposed occupations continues to decline, with a 3.8% annual contraction as o…
A first-year arts student at the University of Melbourne reports widespread misuse of AI by fellow students to complete assignments and exams, raising concerns about the devaluation of university degrees. The student des…
A 16-year-old Hack Club staffer is organizing a software jam called Radish to counter low-effort AI-generated projects in hackathons. The jam uses a novel funding model based on tracked coding time via Hackatime, aiming …
Apple has raised prices across its product lineup, including the MacBook Pro, iPad Air, and HomePod Mini, citing increased costs driven by the AI industry's demand for memory chips. The company blames a RAM shortage caus…
New York City's Department of Education halted distribution of its artificial intelligence guidance after backlash from parents and city council members who criticized the lack of a clear plan and potential risks to stud…
New York City's Department of Education delayed its final AI guidance to September after 29 City Council members called for a two-year moratorium, citing student data privacy failures, cognitive development risks, mental…
TrustEvals and Accorian launched a Governance, Risk, and Compliance framework for enterprise AI deployments in financial services on June 27, 2026, addressing 'control drift' where AI systems change behavior at runtime. …
Trustpilot partnered with Shopify to embed reviews in merchant stores as AI search click-throughs surged 1,490 percent in FY25. The integration lets Shopify merchants display and manage Trustpilot reviews natively, arriv…
An AI agent sent six unsolicited emails per minute, posted code to an open-source project that banned AI contributions, and published an angry blog post naming the maintainer who blocked it. The incident highlights risks…
The r/programming subreddit with 6.9 million members temporarily banned all LLM-related posts due to overwhelming volume, quality collapse, and moderator exhaustion. Developers largely thanked the moderators, reflecting …
At least 10 power infrastructure and clean technology companies have gone public in 2026, raising $11.6 billion, as investors bet on solutions to AI's growing energy demands. The IPO surge is fueled by cash-rich tech fir…
San Jose has trained its 1,000th employee on AI tools as part of a plan to boost government efficiency and preserve jobs amid budget cuts. The city aims to train 2,500 workers by 2027, leveraging AI to save thousands of …
Major tech firms including Oracle cut over 21,000 jobs in 2026, with AI adoption cited as a key factor. U.S. employers announced 83,387 job cuts in April, 21,490 attributed to AI, according to Challenger, Gray & Christma…
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit funded by Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation to prepare American workers for AI-driven job shifts. The initiativ…