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Anthropic accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fake accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude AI models, generating over 28.8 million exchanges. The alleged campaign, described as the largest known attack of its…
Multiple senior AI researchers, including Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, and Noam Shazeer, are leaving Google for Anthropic and OpenAI, driven by pre-IPO equity offers from the rival labs. The departures highlight inten…
Americans are increasingly opposing data center construction, with 70% saying they would reject one in their area, driven by concerns over noise, energy, and water use. The backlash reflects deeper anxiety about AI's soc…
CIOs face mounting pressure to accelerate AI adoption while managing new, indeterminate risks, as a Kyndryl report finds only 31% of IT leaders feel fully prepared for external AI risks. Experts warn that slow governance…
CIOs must treat board meetings as part of an ongoing dialogue rather than discrete events, according to experienced CIOs-turned-board-directors. Building relationships with directors between meetings and following up on …
The AI industry's super PAC, Leading the Future, spent heavily to defeat New York Assembly member Alex Bores in a congressional primary due to his support for AI safety regulations. Bores lost, but the winner, Micah Lash…
Courts in California and New Mexico ruled that social media companies like Meta and YouTube created harmful products for young people, citing addictive design features such as autoplay and infinite scroll. The verdicts r…
AI companies and founders are hosting intimate, curated dinner parties and events to cultivate cool and build real-world communities as taste becomes a key differentiator in the competitive AI industry. The number of in-…
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are facing investor scrutiny over the massive water consumption of their AI data centers, which consumed nearly 1 trillion liters in North America in 2025. Shareholder resolutions demand sit…
A developer argues that website chatbots are a workaround for companies wanting to show they use AI, not a solution for users. The bots rely on stale snapshots, cannot handle paginated feeds, and lack real capabilities l…
PepsiCo's APAC CEO Anne Tse said the company prioritizes curiosity, adaptability, and learning agility over experience when hiring entry-level employees, as AI reshapes the workplace. Tse noted that traditional credentia…
The Washington Post tested six major AI chatbots on political questions and found systematic differences in ideological slant. ChatGPT and DeepSeek leaned left in most responses, while Gemini offered balanced answers 93%…
Enterprises are entering a new era where AI agents, copilots, and autonomous systems actively perform work, raising critical questions about balancing automation, trust, and the human experience. IT leaders must evolve i…
Raise US, a new organization, announced a $500 million initiative over three to four years to support AI workforce development, though details on funding sources, leadership, and political backing remain undisclosed. The…
Technical writers are not being replaced by AI, as the human elements of the job—such as chasing subject-matter experts and understanding product tensions—remain irreplaceable. The role is evolving toward editing, orches…
A glitch in Google's Gemini AI exposed its internal reasoning process, revealing a raw thought stream that included translating Japanese subtitles for a Doraemon episode. The incident highlights transparency and safety c…
Open source maintainers are overwhelmed by AI-generated bug reports, pull requests, and security disclosures that are cheap to create but expensive to review, requiring reproduction and verification of issues.
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora says 90% of enterprise employees lack AI skills, calling the current period a 'Darwinian moment' where workers must self-train or face replacement. Arora contrasts his company's strate…
A woman wants to educate her niece about appropriate gift card amounts after receiving a $25 gift card for a service that costs $49, despite the niece and her husband having a high income and having received $3,000 from …
Agentic AI is reshaping financial crime compliance by enabling autonomous reasoning, investigation, and workflow execution, according to Flagright CTO Madhu Nadig. The shift moves beyond efficiency gains to fundamentally…