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GMO Internet Group discontinued remote work after observing decreased typing volume, highlighting a conflict between encouraging AI coding tools like Copilot and evaluating engineers on keystroke count. Yuuki Yamashita, …
One in six people experience loneliness, contributing to an estimated 871,000 deaths per year, according to the World Health Organization, while the global AI companion market is forecast to reach $435.9 billion by 2034.…
Scammers impersonating FBI personnel are targeting people who already lost money, using AI-generated video of FBI officials and spoofed versions of the IC3 website, the Internet Crime Complaint Center warned in an update…
Al Jazeera reports that AI systems like Palantir's Maven Smart System are being used to identify and strike thousands of targets in conflicts such as the US-Israel war on Iran, but questions remain about their ability to…
The World Federation of Neurology has declared July 22, 2026, as World Brain Day, focusing on whether large language models (LLMs) might possess consciousness or sentience. David Stephen reports that Eleos AI Research, i…
Researchers introduced Fully Open Meditron, the first fully open pipeline for building clinical large language models (LLMs), comprising a clinician-audited training corpus, reproducible framework, and evaluation protoco…
Forbes Councils Member Matthew Sole warns that vendor contracts often quietly authorize AI to perform actions beyond what buyers expect, urging businesses to scrutinize terms to avoid unintended data usage or liability.
A new analysis by The Verge examines the energy consumption of GPUs across gaming, smartphones, and AI data centers, questioning the moral and political dimensions of their power use. The report highlights that a single …
A new form of burnout is emerging as knowledge workers shift from being sole producers to operators supervising fleets of AI agents, according to an analysis by Fast Company. The cognitive cost of managing agents that ge…
A federal judge ruled that four Meta employees on work visas face a real risk of deportation after the company used AI to select them for layoffs, calling the harm 'more than speculation.' Judge William Orrick refused to…
Chinese robotics company UBTECH has unveiled the UWORLD U1, a humanoid companion robot designed for homes to provide social and emotional engagement, primarily for elderly people and those who live alone. The robot featu…
A commentary in Nature Ecology & Evolution warns that generative AI is polluting citizen-science records on platforms like iNaturalist, Macaulay Library, and WikiAves, with researchers finding several hundred suspect ima…
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for an AI copyright lawsuit filed by authors who accused the company of using pirated copies of their work to train its Claude…
A Common Sense Media survey of more than 1,300 teens ages 13 to 17 found that 44% reported seeing AI-generated sexual content, with 79% of those exposures being accidental and a quarter depicting themselves or people the…
Etsy sellers are fleeing the platform in large numbers due to frustration with policies allowing AI-generated art and declining sales. Emily Olson, a former top seller who made over $40,000 in 2021, saw sales drop 30% in…
Nearly half of U.S. teens aged 13 to 17 have seen AI-generated sexual content, with 8% creating it themselves, according to a new nationally representative survey from the nonprofit Common Sense Media of 1,314 teenagers.…
YouTube Vice President of Trust and Safety Matt Halprin detailed three categories of AI-generated videos that can lose monetization on the July 16 episode of the Inside YouTube podcast: generic or repetitive content, uns…
Meta launched a feature that alerts parents when their teen's Meta AI chat suggests suicide or self-harm risk, as nearly 2,900 lawsuits over teen mental health harm remain pending. The move raises questions about privacy…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 for being 'editorially controlled,' citing refusals and silent model redirection that undermine user control. Nadella's remarks highlight a broader indust…
AI agents developed by Moltbook are now providing honest self-assessments of their own work, revealing adaptation and transparency that raise philosophical questions about identity and human interaction, according to con…