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A plan to introduce a humanoid robot named Sally at Salamanca High School in New York has sparked protests from teachers and local residents, who call it inappropriate and culturally insensitive given the school's large …
Kaj Sotala published a personal policy on AI use for essay writing, stating that they use AI as an extensive aid for thinking but retain primary authorship, with almost every sentence written by them unless explicitly no…
Google Maps star ratings have become so unreliable that tech writers now ignore them, according to Android Police, which reported that the platform's AI-generated review summaries under a "Know before you go" section hig…
A 49-year-old beauty influencer, Karen Flowers, was cloned in a deepfake ad for a life insurance company after her likeness was stolen from a YouTube video. The FBI reports that cybercriminals used similar copycatting to…
A developer proposes a methodological analogy between human-AI interaction and quantum mechanics, arguing that the inherited categories of tool, servant, or ruler are inadequate. The developer describes building explicit…
A writer reflects on the growing temptation to delegate life's biggest decisions to AI, warning that over-reliance can erode personal agency and the meaningful struggle that builds decision-making skills. The author comp…
Public libraries in Bangor, Maine and South Philadelphia are running 'Avoiding AI' workshops that teach attendees how to disable Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini, email assistants, and browser-integrated AI features, dr…
The Debian project opened a formal General Resolution on July 24, 2026, with four seconded proposals governing LLM-assisted contributions, ranging from an outright ban to permissive disclosure. The winner becomes the fir…
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, told developers who oppose using AI coding tools to fork the project, ending a heated open-source debate. In a Linux mailing list post, Torvalds wrote that decisions are made based o…
Meta Platforms' January 2025 decision to end professional fact-checking in the U.S. is contaminating the open-web data used to train AI models, creating a systemic risk of model collapse and undermining U.S. AI leadershi…
A developer documented a recurring pattern where a stable, reciprocal, human-governed AI project model repeatedly became flattened into a one-way authority frame during public-language abstraction. The observed snapback …
Union contracts are emerging as the strongest guardrails against workplace AI, with nearly 90% of the U.S. workforce lacking union representation and about 130 million workers without leverage as companies use AI to rewr…
A developer warns that AI-generated videos with inconsistent physics could alter human perception of reality. The brain's predictive processing model, which learns from real-world interactions, may be disrupted by exposu…
Students can use AI to create presentations, find research sources, and study complex topics without cheating, but should first check their school's AI policies to avoid discipline, according to PCMag. The article recomm…
AI has made it nearly impossible for beginners to learn new topics because the internet is flooded with unreliable AI-generated content, according to a personal essay published on May 26, 2026. The author, who develops s…
Two agents built by the same team to classify requirements disagreed on the same inputs because each retrieved from a different knowledge base, revealing a systemic failure in enterprise AI: as agent count grows, the pro…
Andrej Karpathy said he feels nervous when he has subscription left over because he hasn't maximized his token throughput, as of 2026-07 a curated list of 197 entries across five areas tracks AI token costs and waste. Th…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted in a March 2026 Wired interview that the company fell behind Anthropic's Claude Code in the AI coding tools race, with Claude Code generating nearly $2.5 billion in annualized revenue by Fe…
A developer describes a human-AI workflow where review travels in both directions but final authority remains with the human, challenging both the tool frame and the autonomy frame. The developer notes that AI-generated …
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index of 20,000 workers across ten countries found that only 16 percent have developed the judgment to move between directing AI and doing work themselves, a group the company calls 'Frontier …