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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…
Meta paused its program tracking employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training after an internal leak exposed private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions across the company. The incident, classi…
A new phenomenon called 'AI anxiety' is affecting workers worldwide, driven by fears that artificial intelligence will replace jobs. Australian doctor Grant Blashki described it as a persistent unease about rapid technol…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 in its predecessor, a…
The release of a new version of chardet, an open source Python library, has highlighted legal and ethical issues surrounding AI's ability to rewrite open source code and its licenses.
A large-scale study of AI hiring tools found that 26% of Black applicants and 15% of Asian applicants faced racial discrimination in screening, and 10% of applicants who submitted four applications were rejected from all…
Writers are increasingly worried that their human-written text may be mistaken for AI-generated content due to its cleanliness and perfection. The article advises against adding artificial flaws to deceive readers, urgin…
An unconfirmed leak claims OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release has slipped to mid-July, while Google DeepMind is holding Gemini 3.5 Pro past its June launch window due to quality concerns. The alleged delays, if true, would impact …
Polaroid launched an international ad campaign criticizing AI and data centers, with billboards featuring anti-tech slogans like 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.' The campaign, placed near …
Google faces a crisis as search volume hits an all-time high but the company struggles with user backlash against AI integration and a decline in ad revenue. Competitors like ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo gain traction, while t…
Semantic caching in AI systems reuses conclusions from similar queries, reducing latency and cost, but introduces risks in agentic systems where cached answers can trigger tool calls, permissions, or deletions without th…
Anthropic updated its privacy policy to require age or identity verification for Claude users under certain circumstances, sparking concerns about digital surveillance and government overreach. Critics worry the move cou…
Brennan, an Indigenous blogger, writes an open letter to compassionate, left-leaning meat eaters who oppose generative AI, urging them to consider veganism as a way to reduce harm. He acknowledges the environmental and s…
TIME announced a new editorial list, 'TIME Trailblazers: Designing and Making the Future,' presented by Autodesk, debuting in September 2026 to recognize innovators in design, engineering, and technology. The list will s…
Mozilla established a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit called Mozilla.org to steward the long-term success of the Mozilla Project, unifying its various entities under a strategic endowment to advance the Mozilla Manifesto in the …
Top marketing executives from Duolingo, Gap, and American Express said at Business Insider's CMO Insider Breakfast that prioritizing creative risk-taking over AI and brand safety is key to success in a fragmented digital…
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in fiscal 2026, reducing its workforce to 141,000, and explicitly blamed AI in its SEC filing, stating that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies resulted in workforce reductions. The deep…