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Publicly shared Claude conversations resurfaced in search results over the weekend of July 25, 2026, making user-published chat snapshots easier to discover through Google, Bing and Brave Search, according to reports. Th…
The MANOLO project will host a Summer School on Trustworthy AI & Innovation from 26 to 28 August 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece, offering free participation for master's students, PhD candidates, early-career researchers, …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that US technology trust will outlast the Chinese AI price advantage, betting enterprise customers will pay a premium for AI infrastructure they can audit and control, even as Chinese m…
A group of protesters calling themselves Luddite gnomes marched through Lower Manhattan on Fourth of July weekend, chanting anti-AI slogans and holding a mock trial for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part of the "Summer of Lud…
A new marketplace in China allows people to rent out their faces for AI-generated content, with platforms paying $15 to $700 for likeness licenses. Over 95% of 128,000 microdramas released in China in early 2026 used AI …
Northeastern University researchers found that eight popular AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still provide harmful information on substance use, eating disorders, and other mental health conditions de…
Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft executive and tech analyst, argued on the a16z Show that AI regulation is premature and counterproductive, asserting that every AI risk scenario people fear is already illegal under exis…
Google's new 'Recover storage' feature in Google Photos compresses original-quality photos and videos to free up account space, but the company retains all user data for AI training, according to reports from XDA Develop…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined X for the first time and used his debut post to advocate for open-weight AI models, linking to an open letter signed by Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Perplexity, and other major tech companies. The…
About 70% of Americans polled believe AI will lead to fewer jobs overall, but America's top economic data cannot track AI's job impact in real time, according to The New York Times chief economics correspondent Ben Castl…
AI-generated doctors are flooding TikTok with dangerous medical myths, with 40% of top health-related videos on the platform featuring AI-generated content, according to new research by digital marketing agency Hallam. T…
A study by UK digital marketing agency Hallam found that AI-generated content appeared in 40% of the most-viewed health videos on TikTok, rising to 84% of clips surfaced by searches for 'health tips', with top AI-generat…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the 'Relentless' podcast that one of his biggest fears is a small number of companies controlling AI, calling it 'very, very bad' and warning against 'AI authoritarianism.' Altman argued tha…
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has sued Meta and X in the Bombay High Court over AI-generated deepfake videos that falsely show him attacking India's E20 ethanol-blending policy, demanding immediate removal and disclosure …
A developer with a doctorate in their field describes being overtaken by AI during collaborative development, citing an incident where AI found security gaps in a subscriber comment feature that the human expert missed. …
A new book by Cambridge researcher Eleanor Drage, 'What If We Got AI Right?', argues that the public must look past Silicon Valley's narratives to see the human labor and environmental costs of AI, but critics say it fai…
Actors Ashley BeLoat and Brittany Marsicek say MoboReels used AI to create unauthorized remakes of micro dramas they starred in, replacing their likenesses with synthetic versions without consent or compensation. BeLoat,…
The U.S. paused its Iran military escalation after running out of munitions, while President Donald Trump spent the day posting hundreds of AI-generated propaganda images on his presidential account, according to Ben Mei…
Starbucks pulled the plug on its AI-powered Automated Counting inventory tool nine months after deploying it to all 11,300 company-operated cafés, after baristas reported the app miscounting items, including doubling oat…
AI-powered recruitment bots are rejecting jobseekers' CVs based on age and sex, according to a column by Ruth Sunderland in This is Money. The algorithms reflect and amplify human prejudice, with midlife women and men re…