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Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to older Google Home Mini and Nest Hub devices, requiring a Google Home Premium subscription for access, according to Android Police and The Verge. The July 23 update adds co…
A method for preserving critical thinking in the age of AI, borrowed from engineering, involves a four-rung ladder: do it by hand first, write down the process, script repeatable parts, and automate only after understand…
The AI boom's rapid data center expansion could generate about 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste annually by 2030, equivalent to 250 Eiffel Towers, according to a June report from the United Nations University. Discarde…
Bruce Schneier, a public policy lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Toronto's Munk School, argues that students who use AI to complete writing assignments are wasting their tuition money, drawing on …
As AI agents become powerful enterprise actors, boards must ask key questions about governance, risk, and oversight, according to Forbes Councils Member Damon Tompkins. The article emphasizes that AI has extended into co…
Typography-led websites will become the recognized look of premium web design as AI-generated imagery collapses the costly signal that once made image-heavy sites feel high-end, according to a design analysis. Negative s…
Security researcher discovered that Hanwha Vision shipped a GitHub admin token with admin privileges to hundreds of repositories inside the firmware of its security cameras, embedded in the login page's JavaScript files.…
Meta launched Facebook Verified, a free badge that uses facial recognition to confirm human users are real, aiming to combat AI-generated fake profiles and scams. The feature, requiring users over 18 in good standing, wi…
The Delhi High Court ruled that OpenAI did not commit copyright infringement when using publicly available texts to train its AI models, dismissing a lawsuit by the Federation of Indian Publishers. Justice Pratibha M. Si…
A New Delhi court ruled that OpenAI did not infringe copyright when it used news content from Asian News International (ANI) to train its ChatGPT service, delivering a landmark verdict that validates fair dealing for AI …
Meta and Snapchat are facing a privacy backlash over their AI-powered smart glasses, with critics drawing parallels to the failed Google Glass. Meta updated its glasses after reports that owners paid hackers to disable t…
A developer building ARIA, a free AI tutor for 1.6 billion children across 35 languages, discovered a severe gap between test and real-world performance: the system scored 94% on automated Socratic compliance tests but o…
Facebook is introducing Facebook Verified, a free badge that uses a selfie-based process to confirm a profile belongs to a real person, starting in select markets with plans to expand globally. The badge will appear on M…
A study published in Nature Health on 6 February 2026 found that large language models outperformed local clinicians across all metrics when 101 community health workers in Rwanda submitted 5,609 real clinical questions.…
Workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, demanded voluntary recognition of their union, Wiki Workers United U.S., on Monday, citing concerns over job protections, cost …
A US federal court dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpApi for scraping search results to train AI models, ruling that Google failed to show any copyright breach. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the US District Court …
Most AI deployments will fail their first regulatory exam due to missing audit trails, warns Forbes Councils member Marcin Nowak. Organizations must prepare now to avoid costly compliance failures as regulators increasin…
A user on Hacker News is seeking help contacting Paddle, a merchant of record, after the company's AI-automated support system failed to escalate a payout routing issue to a human. The user reports that Paddle's support …
AI boosters have spent over $1.4 trillion, most of that in the past year, on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible while lowering wages, according to a post by author Cory Doctorow on Pluralistic. …
Tesla posted a $1.1 billion free cash flow deficit in Q2 2026, and its stock fell 14.5% the next day, wiping out $214.5 billion in market value, after investors reacted to operating income collapsing 57% to $398 million …