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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…
A Tech Transparency Project report found that Meta ran thousands of advertisements for AI-powered 'nudify' apps that digitally undress women, with the ad network traced to a single Chinese firm called GatherOne. The watc…
Demand for AI literacy has grown sevenfold in two years as generative AI tools become daily workplace utilities, with 12% of employed adults now using AI daily and the World Economic Forum predicting 40% of required skil…
In her book "What If We Got AI Right?", AI ethicist Eleanor Drage argues that big tech cannot deliver utopian promises while chasing profit and power, and that the cultural obsession with AI apocalypse distracts from pra…
A developer who completed Anthropic Education's AI Frameworks and Fluency course shares a key lesson: the quality of an AI agent depends more on system design decisions—such as when to use a language model versus code or…
Open-source LLM proxy stacks like one-api and new-api are being used to pool abused, stolen, or weakly protected API access into discounted token resale services in China, according to Simon Willison. Resellers sell LLM …
Salamanca High School in New York is testing a $57,000 AI humanoid robot named Sally from Realbotix, a company linked to the sex doll industry, sparking backlash from teachers and Native American residents. Teachers' uni…
Voice AI is being deployed fastest into complaint and billing conversations that customers least want automated, with 74% of consumers preferring a human for such contacts, yet 78% of top banks now run production voice a…
Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram have served thousands of ads for AI 'nudify' apps in breach of company policies, delivered by advertising partner GatherOne, according to a report from the nonprofit Tech Transparen…
China's government has proposed new regulations to ban AI-powered romantic relationships, citing concerns over social stability and ethical risks. The draft rules, published by the Cyberspace Administration of China on J…
Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait says job seekers are paying $20 for AI tools to auto-apply to every job on the platform, creating an "AI doom loop" where both sides are unhappy. Recruiters face 254 applicants per job on aver…
Three engineering teams adopted AI agent skills files (AGENTS.md, .cursor/rules, Copilot instructions) in the same quarter, but only one changed its promotion criteria afterward. The other two teams saw cleaner diffs and…
A Washington Post study claiming ChatGPT has a strong left-wing bias is flawed due to artificial constraints and mislabeling of political positions, according to a replication analysis. When the 30-word limit and 9th-gra…
Productivity growth has decoupled from wage growth across the US, Europe, and Japan since around 1970, with the gap widening into a chasm in recent years, according to economic data. The trend risks accelerating as AI an…
AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice, posing a 'huge danger to public safety,' experts warn. British Medical Association council deputy chair Dr. Emma Runswick f…
Top movie directors Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Nolan, and Steven Spielberg are publicly rejecting generative AI in filmmaking, warning it could deprive future generations of learning the craft and calling for skepti…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health on July 23, 2026, allowing U.S. adults to connect medical records and Apple Health data, as more than 300 million weekly health queries now flow through the platform. The rollout came one d…
A March 2025 audit by NewsGuard found that major AI chatbots, including those from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, repeated false narratives from a Moscow-linked disinformation network in roughly 33% of responses, w…