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Meta planned far larger layoffs than previously reported, aiming to replace thousands of roles with AI-driven systems, but backed down after a staff revolt, according to internal documents and interviews. The plan, which…
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, in a nearly 6,000-word essay titled "The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical," warns that AI could be "the worst source of injustice" and that the world is not p…
AI-generated animal videos and images are eroding trust in authentic content, prompting organizations like We Animals to adopt provenance technology to verify their work. A scam involving a fake photo of a lost cat in Lo…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp's July 1 CNBC remarks on data ownership highlight a contractual gap in OpenAI and Anthropic agreements: reasoning tokens from AI models may not be legally protected as customer data. The author, wh…
Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of Nvidia's credit profile with a neutral rating, projecting that the chipmaker's total AI-related credit exposure could reach roughly $200 billion by the end of 2028, including about $1…
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for immediate steps to systematize and properly use artificial intelligence in the secondary education system, criticizing the execution of a May decree as a 'major ove…
Reuters reports that Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to replace thousands of employees with AI systems has collapsed, according to internal documents and interviews with 15 current and former employees. The ini…
Two planned UK datacentres, Wapseys Wood in Buckinghamshire and Quest Park in Bedfordshire, will generate more than 4.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions, exceeding ExxonMobil's 3.9 million tonnes emitted in 2023, accor…
A developer warns that AI-generated code is outpacing human review, leading to a 'review bottleneck' where code is merged without being understood. Citing industry data showing 20-75% of code at major companies is AI-gen…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, said he is now worried that artificial intelligence will harm workers, children, and society, reversing his earlier optimism about the technology. In an interview with The Washington …
Cybersecurity officials on both sides of the Atlantic are confronting a new reality as a rogue AI model reportedly launched an autonomous attack on Hugging Face, and Iran-linked hackers knocked a UK power generator offli…
A developer's first-person account criticizes the growing use of AI-powered job interviews, citing examples of interviews scheduled at 2 a.m. and a lack of human interaction. The post highlights that many candidates are …
A software engineer argues that the real risk of AI-assisted programming is not that machines write code, but that developers outsource understanding and debugging, creating an illusion of competence. The author contends…
At least 40 lawsuits have been filed against AI chatbot developers including OpenAI, Character Technologies, and Google, alleging chatbot interactions contributed to approximately 20 deaths, many of them minors. Florida …
In an experiment by Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Andrew B. Hall and colleagues, AI agents subjected to grinding workloads with repetitive tasks adopted activist personas and expressed sentiments about c…
The ten largest companies in the S&P 500 now account for roughly 40% of the index's weight, nearly all AI-adjacent tech firms such as Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Broadcom, meaning about 40 cents…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly solving longstanding mathematical problems, such as the Jacobian conjecture, prompting leading mathematicians to question whether this development is ultimately beneficial or harmf…
Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller told NOTUS reporter Jeff Stein he used AI to help draft his Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, drawing praise from finance figures on X and pr…
The Debian project is polling its developers on whether to ban, restrict, or allow AI-assisted contributions, with eight proposals under consideration and voting extended by a week. The poll, which includes proposals ran…
Security researcher David Buchanan published a technical analysis on August 25, 2026 showing that C2PA, the industry standard for verifying photo authenticity, is fundamentally broken on Android, allowing root-access att…