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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…
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to help write his Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing US Treasury chief Scott Bessent, a move that has split financial commentators. Druc…
Nvidia's $500 billion financing platform, which lets AI startups and data center operators purchase H100s, B200s, and future Blackwell architectures through structured financing, raises serious concerns about counterpart…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, proposed a 'token tax' on AI in a 6,000-word essay on his Gates Notes website, aiming to slow AI's impact on labor and fund job retraining and social safety nets. He also suggested 'H…
Utah politicians are grappling with public backlash over Flock surveillance cameras and the Stratos data center project, which have become key political issues. Frank Cowley argues that Flock's AI-powered license plate t…
Apple Support's phone line 1-800-APL-CARE in the U.S. and Canada now uses a generative AI-powered voice assistant that can answer questions and troubleshoot issues, transferring callers to human advisors when needed. The…
A new slang term, "meat proxies," coined by developer Niklas Gruhn, describes coworkers who blindly copy-paste AI chatbot output without editing, reflecting growing frustration over cognitive offloading to AI. Gruhn urge…
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on Mac lets the AI search years of iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations, summarize group chats, draft replies, and send messages, but security experts warn it poses privacy …
A community observer notes that users of local AI models are often impatient, declaring new models useless within hours of release and flooding maintainers with low-quality complaints, which delays optimization. The auth…
Askie, an AI-powered educational app for children, has been certified by the Educational App Store and is COPPA compliant, serving over 20,000 families. The app offers voice chat, personalized stories, and adaptive learn…
Kathleen Creel, formerly assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, has joined the University of Michigan as associate professor of philosophy, effective August 25. Her research ad…
A software developer with 12 years of experience argues that the industry's rush to adopt AI is atrophying junior developers' core skills and poses security risks, urging organizations to allow developers the freedom to …
German software engineer Niklas Gruhn coined the term 'meat proxy' in an Aug. 3 blog post to describe coworkers who pass off AI chatbot responses as their own without understanding them, sparking over 700 comments on Hac…
Billionaire Marc Lore's food-tech company Wonder uses an AI-powered performance management system that determines employee promotions based on colleague ratings and a 'value above replacement' (VAR) score, with human man…
Code & Theory, the agency behind NBC's election night big board and the Minnesota Star Tribune's digital reinvention, argues that media success now depends on editorial judgment, not content volume, as generative AI has …
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned in a 6,000-word essay that the rapid development of AI could enable the creation of bioweapons, bombs, and computer viruses, and could eliminate jobs across law, customer servi…
A New York Times opinion piece warns that the artificial intelligence investment boom, driven by hyperscalers borrowing heavily to build data centers, is endangering the broader economy, with the debt binge creating syst…
The Kerberos Server HowTo page is currently inaccessible to automated scrapers due to Anubis, a Proof-of-Work challenge system implemented by the website administrator to deter AI companies from scraping content. Anubis,…
Meta Platforms Inc. reassigned approximately 6,500 to 7,000 engineers to its Applied AI unit in spring 2026, triggering a drop in employee favorability from 74% to 55%, and later cut about 8,000 jobs (10% of its workforc…