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New research shows AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring, developing its own stereotypes from experience. The risk of weather data sabotage is rising as prediction markets and AI forecasting create inc…
Unsupervised use of AI chatbots may unintentionally reinforce psychiatric symptoms rather than alleviate them, according to a paper in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science by clinical psychologist Javad Ab…
Laurie Voss, a technology commentator, argues that intelligence and trustworthiness are distinct properties of AI models, noting that while intelligence is heavily measured, trustworthiness is barely assessed. He cites e…
United Imaging Intelligence, the AI subsidiary of Chinese medical technology giant Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare, is deliberately slowing its AI deployment in healthcare, resisting a national push for rapid adoption…
A new edition of the Mini-Heap from Daily Nous collects recent links of philosophical interest, including discussions of aphantasia and empiricism by Uku Tooming and Roomet Jakapi, AI ethics and moral reasoning by Hollis…
Public opinion is turning against AI, with communities protesting data centers and most Americans believing AI is moving too fast, according to Pew Research. Journalist Jasmine Sun argues the backlash reflects 'AI populi…
Enterprise AI governance frameworks focus on model development and deployment but neglect the third layer: platform governance, according to Joseph Ours, a Forbes Councils member. Ours argues that organizations must ensu…
Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research, published a new essay arguing that the AI bubble was inflated by media and market acceptance of claims from Sam Altman and the AI industry, which waved away economic problems and di…
Bun creator Jarred Sumner used 64 parallel Claude Code agents to rewrite 535,000 lines of Zig into Rust in 11 days at an API cost of approximately $165,000, shipping the result in Claude Code v2.1.181. The rewrite elimin…
Apple Books is facing a growing problem with AI-generated fake books, some written in just a few hours, as tech writer Joanna Stern discovered 10 fake versions of her book *I Am Not a Robot* on the platform within days o…
Flock Safety's license plate recognition cameras wrongly flagged a journalist's vehicle as stolen due to a partial plate match, leading to his arrest, and the company's CEO apologized for calling privacy advocates terror…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of intellectual property and poaching of over 400 employees, an Oracle debt downgrade citing OpenAI as a key credit risk, and a price war with Chinese AI firms like DeepSe…
Companies including Anthropic, Ramp, Notion, and Stripe are rewriting product manager hiring processes to focus on live AI direction and error detection rather than polished deliverables, according to an analysis of thei…
Irish SMEs are drowning in job applications due to AI-generated CVs, with interview rates plummeting from 15% in 2016 to 2-3% today, according to organisational psychologist Edward Bowman. Only 12% of small businesses ar…
Jill Kramer, chief marketing and communications officer at Mastercard, argued at Cannes Lions 2026 that the marketing industry must stop forcing itself into false binaries such as AI vs. creativity and brand vs. performa…
Artificial intelligence is exposing a weakness in how modern enterprises measure performance, as traditional metrics like revenue growth and labor productivity fail to capture AI's diffuse, cumulative benefits, according…
Hugging Face disclosed a security breach carried out by an autonomous AI agent system that gained unauthorized access to internal datasets and credentials, the company said in a July 16 blog post. The intrusion was execu…
Influential leadership — the ability to move people and work forward without formal authority — is emerging as the key skill for engineering leaders as hierarchies flatten and AI enables more autonomous work, according t…
OpenAI faces a leadership shake-up as Scott Galloway and Ed Elson discuss the company's turbulent week and the growing threat from China's latest AI models, arguing that AI's influence is extending beyond Big Tech into d…
CIOs are leading AI adoption, with 82% of CIO respondents to CIO.com's 2026 State of the CIO survey responsible for researching and evaluating AI products, and 78% of IT leaders saying their IT departments drive AI effor…