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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…
A randomized study of 4,867 developers found that code-assistant access increased completed tasks by 26.08%, while a Stanford payroll study found a roughly 16% relative employment decline for 22 to 25 year olds in highly…
A founder's LinkedIn post was detected as AI-generated by Pangram, an AI detection tool, according to a blogger who tested the post after suspecting it was not human-written. The blogger's own human-written post was corr…
Augmental, an accessibility technology startup, announced MouthPad, a tongue-controlled trackpad, and Vox, a microphone pendant for low-volume speech, with over 100 users already using the devices for up to 16 hours dail…
A prompt engineering tutorial explains that AI detectors flag content based on mathematical consistency, not word choice, and provides a high-performance prompt to bypass detection by maximizing perplexity and burstiness…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley apologized for calling privacy activists 'terrorists' as a bipartisan backlash grows against the company's 90,000-plus automated license plate reader cameras. The city of Verona, Wisconsi…
Meta published an Instagram ad on Thursday using David Bowie's 1972 song 'Five Years,' which is about the end of the world, to argue that AI will not make people less connected. The ad features a narrator saying Meta is …
Mercor, a San Francisco-based AI recruiting and data platform, hit $614 million in gross revenue during the first half of 2026 with an annualized run rate of $2 billion, processing over $2 million in daily payouts to con…
Working with AI leads to longer sessions and guilt about stopping because the machine never tires, according to a July 23, 2026 article in Psychology Today. The author describes feeling guilty about ending a 13-hour work…
A Florida man, Scott Winters, has sued OpenAI and its founder Sam Altman, alleging that medical advice from ChatGPT brought him to the brink of death by misdiagnosing his symptoms and advising him not to seek medical hel…
A new study from the University of the Basque Country and Cardiff University found that six out of eight frontier large language models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, reference Japan the most across 1,680 cultur…
Leaders are underestimating 22 AI risks, according to Fast Company Impact Council members, including over-reliance on autonomous AI in high-impact areas like health and nutrition, deploying AI that produces inaccurate ou…