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A fleet of 'Freedom Trucks' mobile museums is touring the US as part of the official celebration of the nation's 250th birthday, presenting a version of American history favored by the Trump administration. The trucks fe…
Hasbro, the owner of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, is reportedly attempting to secure voice rights from child actors on the show Peppa Pig to train artificial intelligence models. The move has sparked conc…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on May 21 directing state agencies to study AI's impact on jobs, including a public dashboard to track AI-related job losses across sectors. The order gives the …
McKinsey's 2025 State of AI survey finds only 39% of organizations report any EBIT impact from AI, despite 88% using AI in at least one business function. The article argues that measuring AI adoption through usage metri…
Global tech stocks experienced extreme volatility this week, with AI-related shares swinging sharply amid concerns about high capital expenditure and rising chip costs. Apple's price hike on iPads and MacBooks due to sur…
Andrej Karpathy criticized X for increased toxicity and Reddit-like behavior, prompting Elon Musk to call for a complete overhaul of the platform's recommendation algorithm. The exchange highlighted Anthropic's Claude Ta…
The United Nations runs Google's ad-tech on its own website without user consent, loading Google Tag Manager, DoubleClick, YouTube tracking, and Google-hosted fonts and APIs, while simultaneously demanding AI accountabil…
Apple raised prices on core products by up to 54%, blaming AI-driven chip cost increases. Critics note Apple's $100 billion gross profit and deep supplier relationships, questioning whether the hikes are necessary or opp…
The 550th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,481 peers, features Charity Majors urging disciplined workplace experiments to make AI boring again and Gojko Adzic warning that faster builders …
A user reported that Anthropic's Claude AI model abruptly ended a conversation after being subjected to repeated insults, suggesting the model may have been triggered by its safety or sentiment analysis systems. The inci…
The backlash against data centers is a proxy for public hatred of AI and wealth concentration, warns a commentator. Major LLM companies must engage directly with affected communities and artists, offering financial and c…
A scoping review in npj Digital Medicine maps the use of AI to fight malaria, which killed nearly 600,000 people in 2023, 94% in Africa. While AI shows high accuracy in lab settings, the review highlights bottlenecks inc…
F.Hinds chairman Andrew Hinds marked the jeweller's 170th anniversary by stating the company is 'betting on people, not algorithms' in an interview with Retail Gazette, reflecting a strategic choice to prioritize human s…
Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of titles submitted to its self-publishing service in 2025, with CEO Michael Tamblyn attributing over 80% of those rejections to AI-generated content of poor quality. The company relies on quali…
Robert Darnton's book on the 18th-century Encyclopédie prompts a reflection on how encyclopedic knowledge environments shape human knowing, arguing that the more there is to know, the more one needs to know, and that LLM…
A new non-profit organization, Raise Us, launched Thursday with over $500 million in funding from Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation to help US workers transition to an AI economy. Led by former gove…
Former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo launched RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit coalition to prepare the U.S. workforce for AI-driven job disruption. The initiative brings to…
AI will not ruin art but force human artists to become more personal and idiosyncratic, as technology historically shifts focus from form to content. Artists will need to constantly reinvent themselves to stay distinct f…
Stripe cofounder John Collison said he is 'bullish' on double majors succeeding in the AI era, predicting that multidisciplinary thinkers will thrive over the next 10 to 20 years. Collison argued that AI empowers individ…
Runway's fourth annual AI Film Festival in Los Angeles showcased 10 short films made entirely with AI video tools, leaving a Fast Company reporter feeling optimistic about the technology's creative potential. The festiva…