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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…
Jeff Sebo, director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy at New York University, argues that people should start treating AI systems with moral consideration, including saying 'please' and 'thank you' to chatbots, …
ForgeMesh, a firm that tracks timelines across rail telemetry, grid filings, and catalog censuses, has opened a case file on a twelve-day period in August when a federal banking regulator, a major cloud provider, the Whi…
Search Engine Land has published a seven-loop framework for AI-assisted editorial workflows that retain a final human quality gate. The framework emphasizes that AI should reduce repetitive editorial work while humans re…
Anthropic released aggregate data from a pilot program that gave three external research groups access to real-world Claude usage data through its privacy-preserving Anthropic Insights tool. The groups—Stanford Universit…
A report from human rights group WITNESS warns that AI watermarking mandates, such as those under the EU's AI Act, could inadvertently expose journalists and documentary filmmakers who never used AI, by embedding persona…
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said Meta's $18 billion settlement with 51 other attorneys general falls short of the child protections his state won at trial, including a ban on romantic and sexualized AI chatbo…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, has avoided both content licensing deals and lawsuits from digital publishers, unlike rivals OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity, according to interviews with four media executives and…
The AI industry is facing a reckoning as enterprises struggle to move from demos to reliable production deployments, with a 5% failure rate in controlled environments becoming a massive liability in finance and healthcar…
OpenAI expanded its free ChatGPT for Teachers program to 55 additional school systems across 20 states, reaching more than 100,000 additional educators and staff. The company now works with over 100 K–12 organizations ac…
Psychology Today reports that as artificial intelligence increasingly performs cognitive tasks, individuals risk losing 'cognitive selfhood'—the meaningful participation in their own thinking—which the article frames as …
Camera-equipped AI smart glasses, including Meta's Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 and Oakley Meta HSTN, face backlash and are being called 'pervert glasses' due to reports of misuse for spying. The article argues that camera-free sm…
Anthropic has opened a controlled route for outside researchers to study how people use Claude, giving Stanford University, Oxford University and METR aggregated findings from about 750,000 conversations while keeping th…
Debian's developers are voting on eight proposals that would ban, limit, disclose, or permit LLM-assisted contributions to the project, with the vote extended to August 26, 2026, by Debian Project Leader Sruthi Chandran.…
A review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essay 'Everything That Hurt You' examines the AI researcher's arguments about the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence and the emotional impact of contemplating such risks. The revi…
The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals found that Venergy, a construction management company, may have used Grok, an AI tool, to alter financial documents during discovery in a contract termination dispute with the Depar…