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The rise of AI coding tools has created a split between maintainers who ban AI-generated contributions to protect scarce review bandwidth and developers who embrace agents for rapid prototyping. A 2025 METR study found t…
Brazilian startup Gabriel uses AI-powered cameras to scan license plates and share data with police, aiming to solve theft cases in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. Critics raise privacy concerns after reve…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a federal minimum tax on billionaires and a national fund to give Americans a stake in AI-generated wealth, arguing the tax should be addressed at the federal level because billionai…
The Trump administration directed OpenAI to restrict the launch of its GPT-5.6 model over national security and cybersecurity concerns, marking the first time the federal government has preemptively limited a commercial …
The Tech Humanist Show released an episode featuring host Kate O'Neill and guest Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, discussing AI augmentation versus automation, cognitive Darwinism, and workforce resk…
California Governor Gavin Newsom called for a nationwide billionaire tax and a federal AI equity fund, arguing that every American should own a piece of the future built by artificial intelligence. He opposed a Californi…
China's government issued a voluntary code of conduct for smart glasses manufacturers, urging them to obtain explicit consent before recording and to include LED recording indicators. The guidelines also promote a minimu…
Seven out of ten Americans oppose local AI data center construction, according to Gallup, with $64 billion in projects blocked or delayed nationwide. Opposition has spread across 24 states with 142 activist groups, drive…
California launched the nation's first state-level AI-Unemployment Tracker under Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order, revealing that college-educated workers in AI-exposed occupations, particularly in the San Francis…
A joint study by Cognizant and Pearson found that 96% of HR leaders expect entry-level roles to evolve into positions supervising AI within five years, and 94% anticipate AI will create new entry-level jobs. However, 60%…
LinkedIn launched a Premium Apply Assistant that auto-fills job applications and drafts cover letters for paid subscribers, using profile data and job-description analysis. The feature assigns confidence indicators to ea…
A public clash between Papermark founder Marc Seitz and Corgi founder Nico Laqua reveals that Corgi's DataRoom product was a near 1:1 reskin of Papermark's open-source codebase, violating its enterprise license. The inci…
Stripe cofounder John Collison says Gen Z will need two college majors to compete in the AI era, echoing advice from the late Charlie Munger. Collison argues that combining software with another discipline like finance o…
DuckDuckGo's AI search feature falsely told users that former President Donald Trump died of rabies, after ingesting fabricated content from a fake news site and a Reddit community designed to trick AI systems. The AI sy…
A satirical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt depicts a malicious package bypassing seven AI-powered security gates, each failing due to distinct vulnerabilities like prompt injection and context-window evasion. While th…
One-third of employers are replacing entry-level jobs with AI, according to a new GMAC survey of over 600 recruiters worldwide, with technology and manufacturing roles most at risk. The trend threatens Gen Z's career pro…
The AI industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence US elections, according to a new project tracking political spending by AI and crypto companies. The effort, called Tech Influence Watch, is led by…
Arcium, a Solana-based confidential computing network, unveiled Blackthorn, an infrastructure layer that encrypts data on standard Nvidia GPUs using multi-party computation. The software-only upgrade expands the confiden…
Major tech companies including Anthropic, Meta, Google, Clearview AI, Apple, Amazon, and OpenAI have collectively paid or owe $3.5 billion in AI-related fines and settlements from 2022 to 2026, according to a Surfshark a…
The AI data center boom is driving a third wave of inflation, increasing consumer prices through surging demand for semiconductors and components, with wholesale electronic components up 27% year-over-year. Analysts warn…