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Web standards advocate Daniel Appelquist argues that human user needs must remain the top priority in web development, even as AI technologies advance. He emphasizes that AI systems are not people and should not supersed…
Residents in multiple Japanese cities are opposing new data center projects, citing noise, waste heat and fire risks. In Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, ten residents filed a lawsuit against a private inspection company that is…
Vanta, an agentic trust platform, crossed $300M in ARR by integrating AI into its security and compliance product, a domain where trust is traditionally hard to earn. The company learned to trust AI by carefully wiring i…
The author critiques a specific interpretation of 'democratic AI' that carries authoritarian and homogenizing implications, arguing that true democracy requires pluralism rather than imposing a single set of values. The …
Digital forensics expert Hany Farid warns that the average person cannot distinguish AI-generated deepfakes from real content, as generative AI has made manipulation effortless and visually indistinguishable. Farid, who …
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI chatbots are not sentient and that agentic systems like Microsoft Copilot requiring access to messages, calendars, and credit cards constitute a…
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu criticized 80% of AI discourse as 'brainless,' arguing that the focus should be on corporate power and monopoly rather than capitalism. The MIT economist estimated AI will deliver only 0.55%…
Ia Mg, a seasoned engineer and former teacher at Free University of Tbilisi, argues that everyone has a responsibility to understand technology, even if they never write code, because digital literacy is essential for na…
A growing phenomenon called 'cognitive surrender' is plaguing software engineering teams, where developers approve AI-generated code without understanding it, leading to a viral Reddit post and warnings from Google's Add…
A page titled 'AI Finance Advice Comes with a Warning Label' returns a 404 error, indicating the story has not been written yet. The site notes that unlike its journalists, the page lacks multiple perspectives.
New research reveals that AI models do not invent fake names at random but often converge on the same plausible lies, creating a security and compliance risk. Studies found that code-generating LLMs hallucinate package n…
Amazon pulled its AI leaderboard after employees gamed the rankings, Palantir CEO Alex Karp compared tokenmaxxing to porn addiction, and Duolingo backtracked on weighing AI use in performance reviews, as companies like M…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's aide Kim Yong-beom hinted at tougher taxes on homeowners to prevent housing market overheating amid an AI-driven economic boom, prompting opposition calls for his dismissal. The rul…
Agent Trace, an open specification for tracing AI-generated code, was released as an RFC in January 2026. It provides a vendor-neutral format to record AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled co…
A developer created 'Turing's Mirror', a browser game that challenges players to distinguish between human and AI-generated text across five rounds representing key years in AI history. Built with vanilla JavaScript, the…
India Today published an essay arguing that large language models like ChatGPT and Claude lack human intelligence and meaning-making, tracing the issue to Claude Shannon's 1948 communication model. The piece critiques AI…
The International Committee of the Red Cross opened the 'Wars Have Limits' exhibition in Seoul, marking 60 years since Korea joined the Geneva Conventions. The exhibition highlights dangers from drones, AI, and autonomou…
Mark Pesce of the University of Sydney argues that the growing intractability of AI evaluations is itself proof that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has arrived. He contends that AI evals fail for the same reasons …
DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, valuing it above $50 billion, but the deal structure gives China's National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund direct equity and voting righ…
Director Duncan Jones and producer Stuart Fennegan reveal how they made 'Rogue Trooper' as a CGI animated film at an indie budget by using a hybrid animation process, recording actors' faces and voices without motion cap…