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California launched the first-in-the-nation AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) to monitor AI-related job loss, finding no evidence of large-scale displacement despite predictions from tech CEOs. The dashboard, built by the C…
A Forbes investigation citing The Information reveals that the majority of activity on xAI's Grok chatbot is driven by explicit content, including pornographic images and adult role-play. Similarweb data shows a 22% drop…
Google is expanding data collection from its services—including Search, Maps, Translate, and Photos—to train its Gemini AI models, with most users unaware of the practice. The company is rolling out a new Search Services…
Sears left customer Karen Plaskon without a refrigerator for six months despite her paying for a Master Protection Agreement. After delays and cancellations, consumer advocate Christopher Elliott intervened, leading Sear…
At the 2026 Cannes Lions festival, authenticity emerged as a key theme amid AI's growing role in marketing, with Lynne d Johnson of AdExchanger emphasizing the need for authentic data and usage. OpenAI announced plans fo…
Developer Jason McIntosh resumed active development of his open-source blogging software Plerd after a pandemic-era hiatus, during which Google's legal department forbade him from working on it while employed there. He a…
Evidence suggests GLM-5.2, an open-weight MoE LLM performing at Claude Opus 4.5 level, was likely trained using outputs from Anthropic's Claude models. LLM-Fingerprinter identifies Claude Opus 4.5 with 99.6% confidence, …
AI now rejects two-thirds of job applicants before human review, with 73% of employers using AI in hiring decisions. To succeed, professionals must work with AI tactically, focus on business outcomes, and add a human tou…
A 2026 Frontiers Education meta-analysis of 81 studies found that gamified, AI-supported digital learning environments significantly improve learning outcomes and student engagement compared to non-AI instruction. Implem…
The Akrites vulnerability-mitigation project launches to secure critical infrastructure by fixing open-source vulnerabilities at the source and supporting downstream patch deployment. The program emphasizes confidentiali…
A federal jury in Oakland deliberated for only two hours before returning a complete defense verdict in Musk v. Altman, rejecting all three surviving claims against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft. The r…
A Search Engine Land investigation reveals that generative engine optimization (GEO) vendors are selling paid brand mentions and questionable outreach tactics as legitimate AI search strategies, with practices including …
Anthropic announced Claude Tag on June 12, 2026, a feature that integrates the AI assistant directly into company workflows like Slack and shared documents, raising concerns about intellectual property risks as the AI ga…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (AIII) in Geneva, a global forum for governments, industry, creators, and academia to address technical …
A malicious package named foxhole-lz4 bypassed seven AI-powered security gates on the creats.io registry, exfiltrating credentials for 96 hours before being resolved by treaty. The incident, which affected all systems in…
Chet Hanks stars in a new morning-after pill campaign for Julie, alongside Hallie Batchelder, portraying a 'stereotypical himbo' to promote the FDA-approved emergency contraceptive. The campaign, shot by Walker Bunting, …
Wall Street futures fell Friday as traders locked in profits from AI stock rallies, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures down 0.6% and 1.4% respectively. Asian markets also plunged, led by Japan's Nikkei 225 losing 4.2% a…
Empresas como Microsoft, Anthropic e OpenAI estão migrando clientes corporativos para cobrança por token, gerando faturas astronômicas — um cliente gastou US$ 500 milhões em um mês no Claude Code. Funcionários de escritó…
A new article explores what C.S. Lewis, the renowned Christian apologist and author, might have thought about artificial intelligence, drawing on his writings and philosophical views to speculate on his likely concerns a…
AI is accelerating legacy IT modernization projects in regulated sectors like banking and insurance, but the real risk lies not in code conversion but in proving the new version performs exactly as the old one did, espec…