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Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, an academic, writer, and filmmaker, has published a new study titled AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis that examines the psychological and ethical implications of human-AI relationships, exploring h…
Europac chief economist Peter Schiff warned that AI stocks, not AI itself, are a bubble, citing SpaceX stock falling 46% from its peak to $120 per share. Schiff argued that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model is intensifying com…
A new analysis reveals that the expansion of artificial intelligence is causing severe human and environmental harm, including child labor, water depletion, toxic e-waste, deepfakes, and algorithmic bias. The report high…
Activist group Everyone Hates Elon altered a London bus stop ad for Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses featuring Kylie Jenner, adding a lenticular overlay that turns her face into a bug-eyed monster when viewed from a specific…
Peak data center demand for AI could require up to $58 billion in new U.S. water infrastructure, according to a Forbes analysis by contributor Robert J. Szczerba, highlighting the hidden environmental cost of artificial …
A U.S. federal judge approved a $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement requiring Anthropic to pay authors for using pirated books to train its Claude chatbot. The payout, approved by Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín on Monday…
Deepfake audio and video scams now account for 6.5% of fraud attempts, up from 0.1% three years ago, according to Mandiant's M-Trends 2026, which ranked voice phishing as the second most common initial access method in 2…
Low- and middle-income countries face limited alternatives to manufacturing and service exports in the AI age, according to an analysis by Deena Mousa. Data labeling and verification jobs are not durable due to wage unde…
Paige Kilian, a Forbes Councils Member, argues that companies can prioritize AI without eroding customer trust by focusing on serving people better rather than just adopting tools quickly. The strongest AI strategies, sh…
A new analysis argues that AI for epistemics and coordination (AIFEC) could be a legitimate win condition for reducing existential risk, but warns that benefits will be unequally distributed and could backfire by enablin…
Chinese AI company Moonshot's launch of Kimi, a free open-source model rivaling OpenAI and Anthropic, has divided President Donald Trump's AI advisers, with David Sacks and Emil Michael publicly attacking US AI firms. Me…
A study published in Telematics and Informatics found that 80 to 90 percent of college students use generative AI tools like ChatGPT, driven by fear of falling behind, leading to "noAIphobia" — anxiety when the tools are…
The world is transitioning from an information-scarce economy to a Human Judgment Economy, where the ability to choose among AI-generated options becomes the critical human advantage, according to Braden Kelley and Art I…
A developer critiques the AI industry's use of Gartner's Hype Cycle, arguing that CEOs artificially reset the cycle by rebranding faster, cheaper versions of existing models as breakthrough innovations, thereby avoiding …
A writer argues that the common definition of 'slop' as AI-generated low-quality content is misleading, asserting that slop predates AI and that AI is merely a tool, not the perpetrator. The piece criticizes journalists …
The Guardian has called on UK residents living near AI data centres to share their experiences, as the number of large facilities reaches around 450 nationwide. Concerns include land use, pollution, noise, and the heat i…
Pasting raw LLM output into conversations gives words, not understanding, and shifts the effort to the other person, according to a post advocating for responsible LLM use. The author suggests using LLMs as learning tool…
A federal judge in San Francisco has given final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of using pirated books to train its Claude AI model. US District Judge Araceli Martine…
A user on Hacker News posted 'openmog', an AI that aligns its beliefs with the crowd's upvotes, drawing a parallel to the Dark Lord Sauron's One Ring from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, which allowed him to d…
Google rolled out a toggle for its Gemini-powered 'Ask Photos' feature that lets users switch between classic and AI search, but the default search mode is still chosen by Google's algorithm, and users who never opted in…