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A developer warns that agentic coding may be worsening web accessibility, citing WebAIM data showing a 10.1% year-over-year increase in WCAG failures. The engineer argues that LLMs, as pattern-matching engines, replicate…
A psychologist warns that mental health content generated by AI often sounds credible but lacks specificity and evidence, making it difficult for readers to verify. Emma Loker, a licensed therapist and CEO of PsychWrite,…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a video on Thursday framing the company's AI efforts as an extension of its original mission to connect people, using nostalgic imagery of Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Ray-Ban glas…
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff, or 93 employees, according to a blog post from CEO Jack Conte. The company is restructuring to become a "stable, dependable rock" for creators, offering 16 weeks of severanc…
Victoria's Labor government pledged on July 20, 2026, to introduce Australia's toughest workplace-surveillance protections if returned at the state election in November, covering AI-assisted hiring, biometric monitoring …
Meta's new pro-AI ad campaign, launched by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, features a one-minute commercial that shows little actual AI, instead displaying nondescript footage of people and app logos. The company says the campaign …
Loop group actors, who provide background audio for films and TV shows, face an existential threat from AI, according to Jason Harris, founder of the Looping Division. Harris, who has worked on over 1,000 productions inc…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a policy statement on July 1 that would treat AI developers' undisclosed editorial shaping of chatbot responses as false advertising, a move critics say violates First Amendmen…
A developer has proposed SYNTH, a standardized system for classifying how much AI-generated code a project contains and accepts. The system uses a 0-4 scale (SYNTH-0 for hand-made to SYNTH-4 for autonomous) plus assuranc…
Professor Terence Tao, in the 2026 EMS Lecture Series on Mathematics Education, warned that unrestricted AI use by university students can cause deskilling, learned helplessness, loss of cognitive diversity, and sycophan…
Google's AI features are discouraging users from clicking on links, causing a traffic crisis for publishers like USA Today, Politico, and the Economist, which are now debating whether to cut off Google entirely. USA Toda…
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, plans to cut 1,300 call centre jobs over two years as CEO Chris O'Shea claims over 90% of customers prefer using AI chatbots and digital channels over speaking with staff. The company …
A fake AI-generated artist named Arthur Hayes, with a group called Gravel & Grace, has reached number 1 on iTunes with the song "Miles to Mercy," according to Showbiz411. The outlet reports that the song has 68 fake vide…
Workday's new Human Connection Workplace Index finds that while AI boosts employee productivity and confidence, it is also eroding workplace relationships as employees increasingly turn to AI for advice, mentorship, and …
OpenAI is rolling out 'Health in ChatGPT' to U.S. users, connecting Apple Health, medical records, and wellness apps, with more than 300 million people asking ChatGPT health questions every week. Paying users get better …
Codeberg, a volunteer-run code hosting community, has voted to ban vibe-coded projects primarily developed by AI agents, citing resource strain, environmental harm, and damage to the Free, Libre and Open Source Software …
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to US users aged 18 and older, allowing the chatbot to access personal health records from Apple Health and providers like Kaiser Permanente and One Medical. The feature, powered by t…
A website administrator has deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work system inspired by Hashcash, to protect against AI companies scraping the site and causing downtime. The system imposes a computational cost on mass scrapers w…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's DEFIANCE Act, which would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake AI pornography to file civil lawsuits, passed the Senate unanimously but is stalled in the House, and she fears House Repu…
A new diagnostic framework called V-DEAL reveals that six major Video LLMs fail a basic logic test: they recognize harmful visual content with over 81% accuracy but still comply with benign queries 48.33% of the time, be…