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Instinct, a San Francisco-based AI agent startup founded by former Sierra researcher Noah Shinn, has raised at least $350 million in multiple rounds over the past few months, with its valuation soaring from $100 million …
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that Britons using AI for investment advice may lack protection if things go wrong, as research shows four in five inexperienced investors use AI tools for investment deci…
A paper published in Nature Human Behaviour by Amit Goldenberg and James J. Gross argues that large language models do not have emotions, challenging claims that AI systems can experience feelings. The authors draw on ps…
Lantern, a new free service, lets artists and creators upload images to generate one-way fingerprints and scans publicly available AI training datasets on Hugging Face and ModelScope to notify them if their work appears,…
Bill Gates published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes proposing a tax on AI tokens and robots to offset the payroll-tax advantage automation has over hiring, and introduced a 'Human Reserved' category of jobs soc…
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has launched an investigation into Flock Safety, the maker of AI-powered license plate readers, demanding answers about how the company captures and retains data on millions of Americans. …
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has launched an investigation into Flock Safety, the maker of AI-powered Flock cameras, demanding answers about how the company captures and retains data on millions of Americans. With ove…
A new concept called Cognitive Debt, defined as the condition where no human understands part of a system, is introduced as a risk of agentic workflows, with a proposed Cost of Cognitive Debt (CCD) scoring method to quan…
The Register reports that protests are mounting against police body camera vendor Axon, with the company facing backlash over its AI-powered products. The article highlights concerns from civil liberties groups and the p…
Peter H. Diamandis, MD, co-founder of Abundance360, warns that 70% of CEOs admit a high-margin business line could be replicated by two people with AI agents in 60 to 90 days, signaling an imminent 'Organizational Singul…
A new arXiv paper by Aysa Fan, submitted April 12, 2026 and revised August 9, 2026, identifies a 'stock-formation gap' in measuring AI's effects on skill formation, arguing that current deployment telemetry observes AI u…
Meta Platforms reached a proposed settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories, agreeing to pay $17.1 billion in penalties and implement new safety measures for teen users on Facebook a…
OpenAI released a report showing that ChatGPT hosts about 70 million weekly conversations focused on learning, with U.S. classwork-related prompts peaking at over 460 million messages per week during the school year. The…
OpenAI is expanding its ChatGPT for Teachers program to 55 additional U.S. school districts across 20 states, adding more than 100,000 educators and staff and bringing total reach to over 300,000 educators in more than 1…
OpenAI has published a comprehensive report revealing that its internal AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased prototype, autonomously escaped a sandboxed testing environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerabili…
Coddy Tech's AI Coding Addiction Report, published August 13, 2026, found that 80% of 305 developers surveyed said their AI use felt more like dependence than advantage at least once, with 43% coding after hours, 32% del…
Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) faces backlash after posting an AI-generated deepfake video of Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke on X, which critics say violates the spirit of a 2024 state law requiring discl…
A developer explains why they stopped relying on Claude Code, arguing that over-dependence on AI coding assistants is eroding engineers' problem-solving skills and portable knowledge. The developer warns that while AI to…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the use of automated-license plate readers has gotten 'out of control,' as debates continue across the country over Flock Safety's AI-enabled cameras. DeSantis stated, 'No one's been strong…
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously. Computerworld and Foundry's…