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AI-generated 'doctors' are flooding Facebook and TikTok with fake health advice, using realistic avatars and fabricated credentials to promote unsubstantiated supplements. A 71-year-old woman bought moringa supplements f…
Microsoft, Uber, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia have each confirmed in 2026 that AI is directly reducing customer service headcount, marking the clearest corporate admissions yet of AI-driven job displacement. Uber c…
Donald Trump and Elon Musk both recently targeted historical accuracy, with Trump issuing an executive order to place signage at Smithsonian museums directing visitors to 'accurate information' and Musk announcing that h…
A new essay titled 'The Great AI Disappointment' argues that generative AI has failed to live up to its promises, instead fracturing the internet, harming human culture and literacy, and increasing inflation and corrupti…
Apple's stock has surged $600 billion as traders flee the AI selloff, making it the world's most valuable company again, according to Bloomberg. The reversal reflects rising unease about heavy AI spending paying off, wit…
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says the company's $20 million-plus copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft is the cost of defending journalism, as the Trump administration targets press freedoms and AI c…
Filipino cartoonist Elmer Saflor has sued Memes Apps, the company behind AI meme generator Memes.ai, alleging it sold his copyrighted comic 'Running Away Balloon' as an advertising template to paying subscribers. The com…
A developer's thought experiment separates Hollywood fiction from realistic AI risks, arguing that the real danger isn't sentient robots but powerful systems following flawed instructions. The piece explores the alignmen…
On July 20, a federal judge gave final approval to the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history, requiring Anthropic to pay $3,000 per work for roughly 500,000 books it pulled from pirate libraries to train its model…
Nonprofits are preparing for what could be the largest wave of philanthropy in decades as AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic, each valued at nearly a trillion dollars, are expected to go public soon, potentially making hu…
South Korea's KOSPI market is experiencing a crash driven by AI chip volatility and investor fear, as the narrative shifts from a 'buy everything AI' mentality to demanding proof of productivity from massive capital expe…
Meta's ad for its AI ecosystem, labeled 'AI Optimism,' uses a soundtrack about human extinction, creating a bizarre contrast that highlights the company's internal conflict between promoting AI as empowering and acknowle…
AI software engineering is shifting from manual coding to system architecture and verification, according to analysis of AI-assisted development workflows. Developers must transition from writing code to defining specifi…
AI companies are digitizing rare books to train large language models, but the aggressive scanning process is damaging the original physical artifacts, according to a report. The shift toward 'dark data' from archives an…
Meta confirmed it will sign the EU AI Act Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, reflecting its commitment to identifying and labeling AI-generated media. The company has been working on this since Apr…
A developer argues that developer communities are asking the wrong question by filtering projects based on whether AI was used, rather than evaluating technical merit. The post contrasts two hypothetical projects—one inv…
A Hacker News user warns that AI tools storing meeting transcripts and interactions create legal liability, as these records could be discovered in litigation and analyzed for offhand comments that violate company polici…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Y Combinator's Startup School that fears of AI destroying jobs are 'exactly backward,' arguing that AI will automate tasks, not entire jobs, and will create new roles. Huang cited examples su…
Companies including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Microsoft Corp., Uber Technologies Inc., and Hyatt Hotels Corp. are using AI-powered chat and phone systems to replace customer service workers, with some already elimi…
ChatGPT now refuses direct prompts to imitate named authors such as Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and Charles Dickens, but still generates prose based on broader stylistic traits, according to tests reported by Ars Technic…