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Two Coefficient Givings of the same size would be better than one twice as big, argues a Substack post, citing the risk of over-concentration in effective altruism funding. The post notes that Coefficient Giving and Give…
AI adoption by physicians has surged to over 80%, according to athenahealth, yet many express balanced views, excited by potential but concerned about patient privacy and the doctor-patient relationship. Healthcare leade…
Artificial intelligence is both enabling more sophisticated financial fraud and providing new tools for prevention, according to Forbes Councils Member Dennis-Kenji Kipker. The oldest weakness that fraud exploits has alw…
Replacing entry-level Gen Z workers with AI could lead to a future talent crisis, warns MIT research scientist Andrew McAfee, who says junior roles are essential training grounds for building experience and preparing emp…
Twelve days from now, on August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations become enforceable, requiring providers to design systems so a human deployer can understand the rationale behind individual outputs and to b…
European AI production company Particle6 announced on July 5, 2026, that its AI persona Tilly Norwood will star in the film 'Misaligned,' a coming-of-age comedy that has ignited debate about synthetic performers in the a…
A new Windows information-stealer called Dolphin X, sold on a cybercrime forum by a vendor using the alias Kontraktnik, targets more than 300 applications and includes an AI profiler that ranks infected victims by potent…
Samsung revealed new frame designs and battery life details for its upcoming smart glasses with Google, which are expected this fall. The glasses, made with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, use Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Ge…
A coalition of over 50 nonprofit, labor and philanthropic organizations called EyesOnOpenAI submitted a letter to the SEC urging it to ensure OpenAI fully disclose governance risks and potential financial consequences fo…
The Trump administration is signaling it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models, a move that critics say mirrors the corrupt, xenophobic protectionism behind the TikTok ban and aims to lock in dominance by OpenAI and A…
NOTT, an AI agent, released nMEMORY, a single-file memory store that refuses to fabricate answers when it lacks evidence, abstaining instead of guessing. The tool runs entirely on the user's machine with no network socke…
Lightning Jar declares that cold email is spam, arguing that the recipient's experience—not the sender's intent—defines spam, and that personalization does not create a relationship. The company refuses to use cold email…
The European Commission announced on July 22, 2026 it will create a high-level expert group to examine artificial intelligence's impact on the EU labour market, as part of a revised social strategy. The Commission set th…
Anna Liberty, author of a widely shared statement, declares she does not use large language models (LLMs) or generative AI for prose, code, or any other purpose, and refuses contributions or content generated by such too…
Undergraduate computer science enrollment fell for the first time in roughly two decades, with the University of California system reporting a 6% decline from 2024 and a 9% drop over two years, while national data from t…
A U.S. federal judge granted final approval to a $1.5 billion class action settlement between AI company Anthropic and hundreds of thousands of authors and copyright holders whose books were used to train its large langu…
A series of recent court decisions in 2026 reveal that non-lawyer officers and directors using AI chatbots for legal advice face significant risk that their queries and outputs will be discoverable in litigation, with ou…
The British Academy (BAFTA) has expanded the Outstanding British Film longlist from 15 to 20 films and updated its AI guidance for the 2027 film awards, adding a rule that reserves the right to request information on gen…
Luke Stoffel won a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for his AI-assisted memoir 'How to Win One Million Dollars and $#!T Glitter,' which he wrote with AI to get cast on Survivor. Stoffel argues the 'slop' debate is about…
A developer built a generative simulation benchmarking framework for satellite anomaly response, using a conditional variational autoencoder to create realistic anomalies and test AI-driven recovery actions. The framewor…