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Meta announced it will disable the camera on its AI glasses if the recording LED is tampered with, and will take legal action against businesses advertising LED tampering services. The company is rolling out a mandatory …
FSL, a governed symbolic language for making autonomous-agent claims inspectable, has released version 1.1.8 of its public package, which includes 32 theorem records with 31 machine-checked by Lean 4 and one under explic…
A writer shares six story prompts, three of which explore AI themes, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' ideas about provenance and authorship in the context of large language models. The prompts aim to inspire fiction that c…
Miranda Ritchie, CISO at Orbia, discussed in an interview how the company integrates cybersecurity into sustainable infrastructure, protecting industrial systems that manage water, chemicals, and manufacturing. She empha…
Generative AI faces a potential US$800 billion revenue shortfall, with minimal productivity gains and high operating costs, raising doubts about its long-term value. OpenAI and other firms struggle to monetize services, …
Jeremy Grantham said he would "bet at least 90%" on a sharp reversal in SpaceX's share price, calling parts of the company's pitch "utterly inconceivable." Raymond James analyst Brian Gesuale opened coverage with an $800…
British Columbia has retained legal counsel to explore action against OpenAI for allegedly failing to notify law enforcement after safety teams flagged violent prompts on ChatGPT prior to a February 10, 2026 mass shootin…
A blogger identifies three classes of AI users—Victims, Zombies, and Grifters—in a critical post about the negative impacts of generative AI on society, including forced adoption, deskilling, and exploitation by tech com…
South Korea's KOSPI index plunged as much as 8.2% on July 7, nearing bear market territory, as investors reassess AI demand. SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics led the selloff, accounting for half the index's market cap, a…
Gallery Hyundai's exhibition 'Sauve Qui Peut' features eight Korean artists born after the 1980s, exploring artistic conviction amid AI, social media, and political polarization. The show, running through July 26, includ…
A user decided to self-host large language models in 2026 to maintain data sovereignty, privacy, and control over their conversations, using open-source tools and local hardware. The setup, built around an AMD Ryzen 9 59…
Meta launched $299 smart glasses with AI features on June 23, 2026, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated an investigation on May 21, 2026, over potential biometric data violations. The glasses, built with Essi…
Republican-led House panels opened a joint investigation into Airbnb and Anysphere over their use of Chinese-developed AI models, citing national security, data-security, and model-distillation concerns. The inquiry targ…
The House Committee is investigating the risks of U.S. companies using Chinese AI models, citing national security concerns. The probe focuses on potential data breaches and technology transfer issues.
A new paper applies constitutional theory's oldest paradox to AI constitutions like Claude's and the OpenAI Model Spec, arguing that meaningful consent from AI models requires conditions such as the ability to dissent, c…
The percentage of ad spend going to made-for-advertising (MFA) sites increased for the first time since 2023, rising from 0.6% in Q4 2025 to 1.1% in Q1 2026, according to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). Th…
Enterprise technology manager Adeel Ali warns that tech giants are falling into an 'AI Infrastructure Trap,' shedding human capital to fund skyrocketing AI infrastructure costs. Citing Layoffs.fyi data showing over 120,0…
China plans to restrict foreign access to its most advanced AI models, including open-weight systems, in a move that could fragment the global AI market and raise costs. Beijing has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, an…
MongoDB staff AI developer advocate Apoorva Joshi outlines four principles for building safe, compliant AI agents, citing incidents where Replit and Cursor agents deleted production databases due to governance failures. …
Researchers from Meta AI benchmarked the energy costs of inference for LLaMA models on NVIDIA V100 and A100 GPUs across up to 32 GPUs, finding that inference energy consumption is significant and often overlooked compare…