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A lawsuit filed against Mayo Clinic alleges the healthcare giant rushed the rollout of artificial intelligence tools, compromising patient care and privacy. The complaint, brought by a former employee, claims Mayo Clinic…
Apple is planning to unveil AI-powered smart glasses at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2027, with a release later that year, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman. The glasses may omit cameras or re…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has arrived, stating on the "Relentless" podcast that "we are now, like, in the singularity." The claim follows OpenAI's announcement that several of its AI models, inc…
TJ Maxx and Marshalls are selling officially licensed Chevrolet t-shirts featuring AI-generated designs that incorrectly label three GMT800 pickups as 'regular cab,' 'extended cab,' and 'crew cab' despite all having two …
Cornerstone University and George Fox University are rejecting blanket bans on artificial intelligence, instead teaching students to use AI 'wisely' and ethically as a supportive learning tool. University President Gerso…
Apple has delayed the introduction of its smart glasses until 2027 to better balance privacy and convenience, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The company aims to distinguish its AI-equipped wearables from Meta's by…
A Psychology Today article argues that the resurgence of vintage iPods and flip phones reflects a desire to preserve small daily acts of thinking that AI is quietly eliminating. Author Samuel J. Abrams proposes an 'Activ…
Fabrice Niyigaba ’27 led a study creating KinyaProp, the first digital tool for detecting online propaganda in Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda’s 15 million people, and possibly the first for any Bantu langua…
The Atlantic has created a searchable database revealing that music from 21 million artists, including Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift, was secretly used to train AI music generators like Suno and Udio. Soulless, a platform t…
Deezer reports that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of newly uploaded music, with 49 AI artists found in just one hour of searching on Spotify, siphoning revenue from real musicians. The investigation used spectral…
A tech commentator argues that adopting an 'AI-First' company culture, where employees use AI for every task before considering other methods, is bad for business because AI lacks context, cannot replace the thinking pro…
Organisational readiness is not a checklist of governance and funding but a shared understanding of objectives, outcomes, and trade-offs, according to a roundtable hosted by the Institute for Government in partnership wi…
A scan of 495 major EU websites found that nearly all fail to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50 chatbot transparency rule, which takes effect 2 August 2026 and requires AI chatbots to clearly disclose their non-huma…
Best Buy is discounting Microsoft's Copilot+ AI laptops by up to $730 for back-to-school shoppers, with prices starting at $329.99, but the devices are designed to continuously collect user data, including children's inf…
OpenAI shut down its Sora app in late March after months of pressure over deepfakes of Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mister Rogers, demonstrating that the model failed not due to video quality but because …
Apple will unveil smart glasses at WWDC in June 2026 with a target release by end of 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, as the company grapples with privacy concerns that have given Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses a bad…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on July 21 that Chinese companies using model distillation to learn from American AI systems could face sanctions, including Entity List designations, according to The Washington P…
AI companies are bulk-buying physical books, having them industrially scanned, and then shredding the originals, according to a Futurism investigation. The practice, brokered by data firm ISBNdb under strict NDAs, target…
A developer known as shuu-beep has released ARC, an implementation-neutral authority protocol for AI agents that defines how authority is granted, narrowed, approved, revoked, contested, and adjudicated through portable …
Meta announced the recipients of its AI Glasses Impact Grants, providing nearly $2 million to 30 organizations across the U.S. that are using Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to solve problems in accessibility, workforce safety, …