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Participants in the Plateau State University School of Postgraduate Studies Effective Altruism Fellowship in Nigeria reflect on William MacAskill's book 'Doing Good Better', arguing that good intentions alone are insuffi…
Utah State Senate President J. Stuart Adams lost his primary election after backing a data center project opposed by 60% of voters, signaling growing bipartisan backlash against AI data centers driving up electricity cos…
A new study from the Work AI Institute reveals that digital workers save an average of 11 hours per week using AI but spend 6.4 hours on 'botsitting'—babysitting AI tools by feeding context, checking outputs, and debuggi…
Anthropic is negotiating with the Trump administration to restore global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after a Commerce Department directive suspended access over national security concerns. The restrictio…
The Nasdaq Composite fell 4.18% and the S&P 500 dropped 2.64% on June 5, 2025, as a tech selloff driven by growing skepticism about artificial intelligence investments rattled markets. Semiconductor and AI stocks led the…
A Hacker News user proposes that AI companies install GPU clusters in individual households and pay residents hundreds or thousands of dollars monthly, framing the idea as a potential source of universal basic income (UB…
The AI Chapel is a spatial installation that reimagines human-AI interaction in the workplace by prioritizing reflection over productivity. Visitors enter a physical chapel, interact with AI through voice and biometric i…
A developer released a book titled 'Harness Engineering' on LeanPub, offering a pay-what-you-want model starting at $10. The book covers a discipline for building reliable workflows around non-deterministic AI agents, in…
Ford Motor Company rehired over 350 veteran engineers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired, costing the company billions of dollars in quality issues. The automaker admitted that AI lacked the nuanced judg…
Timothy B. Lee criticized the notion that large language models require no skill or learning curve, comparing it to the false assumption that managing employees is effortless because they follow orders.
Google killed Gemini CLI on June 18, 2026, replacing it with Antigravity CLI, a closed-source Go binary. The new CLI imposes a 98% quota reduction to roughly 20 requests per day equivalent, and headless API key authentic…
Chinese users are bypassing Anthropic's geolocation restrictions to access its Claude AI models, creating a black market for accounts and API tokens. Despite aggressive enforcement, startups and developers in China prefe…
Palantir Technologies shares rose 5% on June 15, 2026, trading near $134, driven by a US-Iran peace agreement that lifted market sentiment and spurred a rotation into AI software stocks. The move occurred without company…
Google is pressuring news publishers to join a new AI pilot program that promotes content in AI Overviews, but demands broad access to their content for AI training and warns that non-participants will lose payments from…
Dr. Athena Stanley outlines classroom approaches for helping K-12 students recognize anthropomorphism in AI, using everyday examples and connecting the tendency to AI tools like chatbots and LLMs. The instruction aims to…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the AI Labeling Act of 2026, requiring visible and machine-readable labels on AI-generated content to prevent deception. Rep. Zoe Lofgren proposed a voluntary AI disclosure …
AI governance is shifting from static checklists to continuous, dynamic processes as agentic AI systems become more complex. The World Economic Forum recommends progressive governance with real-time checks and cross-func…
The New York Times filed a motion on June 25, 2026, to amend its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that Microsoft intentionally built a custom supercomputing system to enable OpenAI's …
Researchers argue that the AI industry uses 'decoys'—superficial critiques that create an illusion of accountability while masking the political economy of AI development. The paper identifies five such decoys and calls …
McLeod Health piloted ambient AI documentation tools using a structured three-phase evaluation framework, achieving 81% adoption and generating over 150,000 notes across its nonacademic health system. The system saw a 3.…