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Superhuman agreed to acquire GPTZero, the AI detection startup founded by Edward Tian, on June 23, 2026. GPTZero has grown from a Princeton senior thesis into a company with 19 million users and $30 million in annual rec…
Multiple major Hollywood studios, including Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros., have declined to distribute Luca Guadagnino's biographical drama 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, following Amazon MGM'…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers discovered five malicious skills on OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace between February and May 2026, including infostealers, evasion techniques, and novel agentic threats like runtime …
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' was released today, offering a critical perspective on AI hype and its societal impact. Doctorow argues that AI's real-world implementations have be…
Cate Blanchett launched the Human Consent Registry through her nonprofit RSL Media, allowing individuals in the US and EU to control how AI systems use their likeness. The registry lets users set consent levels for AI us…
Meta has paused an internal program that trained AI on employee data after a leak exposed keystrokes, private conversations, and transcriptions. The program, intended to improve AI models, was halted following the securi…
Meta has released new smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding, but its CTO Andrew Bosworth argues that privacy concerns will be resolved through 'social learning' rather than new safeguards. Critics note Meta has not adde…
Hiring across Europe is down 25% from pandemic-era highs and 15% year over year, while U.S. hiring remains 24% below pre-pandemic levels, according to LinkedIn data. Executives at VivaTech said employers increasingly dem…
A Wellhub survey finds 88% of people leaders prioritize retaining top talent, but AI adoption is accelerating burnout among high performers tasked with leading implementation. Wellness programs are seen as key to retenti…
MIT alumni and supporters are rallying to defend the institution's mission of advancing scientific research, merit-based admissions, and national prosperity amid perceived threats to academic freedom and innovation. The …
AI superintelligence could undermine nuclear deterrence by enabling a state to achieve a technological leap large enough to execute a disarming first strike, rendering second-strike capabilities obsolete. The author argu…
US stocks fell sharply as a sell-off in technology giants sparked concerns that the artificial intelligence rally driving the bull market may be overblown. The S&P 500 dropped 1.4%, the Nasdaq composite fell 2.2%, and gl…
Meta paused its employee computer tracking program after sensitive data, including AI prompts, performance data, and private conversations, was leaked internally. The program, intended to train AI models, sparked backlas…
Gen Z is embracing 'cyberdecks'—DIY, customizable computers that explicitly reject AI—as part of a broader trend toward single-purpose, anti-AI devices. The movement reflects a consumer backlash against Big Tech's integr…
SpaceX shares dipped below their opening market price of $150 on Tuesday, falling to around $158 after peaking at over $225 a week ago, as a broader sell-off in AI-related stocks hit domestic and global markets. The tech…
New York's 12th congressional district primary has become a battleground for the AI industry, with outside groups spending over $40 million. Assemblymember Alex Bores, an AI safety advocate, faces opposition from a pro-A…
Tesla is pushing back against unfair media reporting of a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, after the company's data showed the driver manually overrode Autopilot by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100%. Tesla executives Elo…
BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons were sued in a class action lawsuit alleging they used Kalibrate's AI fuel-pricing tool to artificially raise gas prices in California, violating state antitrust and algorithmic pric…
SpaceX, with $100.8 billion in cash, is issuing at least $20 billion in bonds to replace a short-term bridge loan used to acquire xAI, despite negative free cash flow of $14.1 billion last year. The move aims to secure c…
A historical analysis of AI hype cycles warns that current generative AI and agentic systems risk repeating past failures, as critics argue that scaling deep learning alone cannot achieve human-level reasoning or underst…