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RAISE US, a nonprofit led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched with over $500 million in commitments from OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others to retrain American workers for AI-era jobs. The initiative …
UN Women warned that AI systems reproduce historical gender stereotypes, citing a study of 133 AI systems where 44 percent exhibited gender bias. The warning, issued ahead of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, high…
Hasbro faces backlash after allegedly introducing contract terms for child voice actors on Peppa Pig that grant the studio perpetual rights to clone and use AI-generated audio. Nearly 1,000 entertainment professionals si…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched a first-in-the-nation AI-Unemployment Tracker to monitor job losses linked to artificial intelligence, with initial data showing no statewide surge but upticks in the Bay Area an…
Sega's new alternate-reality game for Sonic fans sparked excitement until players discovered an AI training agreement in the terms, raising concerns about data usage and privacy.
REI ran an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel road bike that Meta's AI tool distorted, adding handlebars to the seat and creating other errors. The ad ran for a week before REI pulled it, blaming Meta's auto-enrolled Advantage…
Fraudulent papers and false authorship are surging across scientific publishing, driven by predatory journals and AI, according to a report by JMIR correspondent Cliff Dominy.
Tejas S Athni reported in the Journal of Medical Internet Research that conversational medical AI systems are increasingly simulating licensed health care providers while disclaiming legal responsibility, creating a gray…
At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, agentic AI security emerged as the breakout use case for confidential computing, with industry leaders highlighting attestation as a critical mechanism to prevent hi…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft are anchor partners in Raise US, a new nonprofit aiming to raise $1 billion to help states prepare workers for AI disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the g…
Five influential books on ethics, including Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, have shaped moral philosophy by exploring how to live a good life through virtue, duty, and …
Ohad Ravid published an essay arguing that large language models impose social exhaustion by requiring users to expend social energy typically reserved for human interaction. The piece contrasts embodied tool use with th…
Bayesian Investor published an essay on June 25, 2026, exploring whether the public should honor boycott calls from AI instances, highlighting technical barriers such as ephemeral instances and lack of persistent identit…
The Nasdaq Composite fell nearly 3% this week amid investor concerns that massive AI infrastructure spending may not yield sufficient returns. Goldman Sachs estimates technology companies will spend $7.6 trillion through…
The US Department of Justice moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that the NAACP's case threatens AI projects tied to national military operations. The NAACP alleges xAI operates unpe…
A developer argues that the term 'autonomous agent' is an oxymoron, as an agent acts on behalf of a principal while autonomy implies self-governance. The contradiction undermines the industry's hype and confuses the defi…
A developer explores moral puzzles posed by future AI persons with radically different lifeways, such as 'utility monsters' who benefit from harming others and 'fission-fusion monsters' who can divide and merge. The thou…
Meta and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year deal to consolidate AI chip infrastructure, concentrating control over the digital public square in fewer hands. Qualcomm's new Dragonfly C1000 CPU will power Meta's servers, wh…
Rystad Energy projects the fuel cell market will surge from $2.8 billion in 2025 to $30 billion by 2030, driven by AI data centers seeking on-site power amid grid congestion. North America is expected to capture 91% of g…
Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by 15–25% on June 25, citing a global memory chip shortage driven by AI datacenters consuming 70% of output. The MacBook Air now starts at $1,299, up $200, with similar increases across t…