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Researchers at Vellore Institute of Technology in Chennai, India, led by Associate Professor Kavitha Dhanushkodi, propose using AI and machine learning to create a Cognitive Digital Twin (CDT) for predicting crime hotspo…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged critics to stop warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, despite widespread concerns that AI poses existential risks, environmental harm, and safety threats in critical …
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark declared artificial intelligence "the most powerful technology ever built" and discussed the company's regulatory battles, risks of recursive self-improvement, and AI's potential to reshap…
The Washington Post tested major AI chatbots for political bias, finding OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave left-leaning arguments 80% of the time, while Google's Gemini presented balanced views in over 90% of responses. The evaluati…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and dismissed SpaceX's AI strategy as a 'premium-priced CoreWeave' in a recent interview, arguing that buying an AI company like Cursor doe…
A Hacker News user asks how much coding beginners should learn in the AI era, given the rise of AI tools that can generate code. The question highlights the uncertainty about the future value of coding skills as AI advan…
ElevenLabs released a 13-hour AI-generated audiobook of Homer's 'The Odyssey' narrated by a synthetic version of Michael Caine's voice, sparking criticism from listeners who question the necessity of an AI narrator when …
Journalist and author Robert Wright warns that artificial intelligence will trigger a civilization-level 'earthquake' affecting economic, cultural, political, personal, family, and psychological realms, far beyond job di…
The University of Manchester is hiring two three-year lecturers in digital education within its Manchester Institute of Education, focusing on digital technologies, AI, and education. The first post is open for applicati…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, driven by widespread use of AI coding tools like Claude Code across the organization, not by a single moonshot project. Leaked audio from Accenture reveals ex…
AI-enhanced automated license plate reader cameras deployed by roughly 40% of US law enforcement agencies capture every passing vehicle without a warrant, with vendors like Flock Safety storing searchable data accessible…
Google, IBM, and Circle have backed a new open standard called the Legal Context Protocol (LCP) to provide legal certainty and dispute resolution for AI-driven transactions. The protocol, unveiled by the American Arbitra…
Anthropic has sidelined CEO Dario Amodei from White House AI security talks after a jailbreak incident involving its Mythos and Fable models, sending cofounder Tom Brown to lead negotiations. Brown is meeting with Commer…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative on June 23, demanding that AI companies publicly disclose the full environmental footprint of their data centers, including wate…
Meta is the only major U.S. AI developer that has not agreed to a voluntary government framework for pre-release model reviews, as rivals including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have already begun sharing models with fed…
Industry leaders at a TIME100 Talk in Cannes emphasized that while AI is transforming filmmaking, human creativity remains essential. Autodesk's Dara Treseder said AI raises the floor but human ingenuity vaults the ceili…
Fin (formerly Intercom) has created a Forward-Deployed Data Scientist (FDDS) role to measure AI ROI for enterprise customers, complementing Forward-Deployed Engineers. The FDDS defines success metrics, proves value, and …
A free, open-source route planner called DeFlock is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers operated by Flock Safety, which has over 100,000 AI cameras in a national surveillance network accessible to law e…
A Kapwing study found that 59% of videos on new TikTok accounts' 'For You' feeds are AI-generated, with 57.4% in the Kids category classified as 'AI slop'. The research analyzed over 10,700 videos across 20 categories, r…
A survey of over 1,500 Americans found that labeling political messages as AI-generated did not reduce their persuasiveness, even though most participants believed the labels. The study, published in PNAS Nexus, showed t…