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AI search visibility tools that count how often a model mentions a brand in response to prompts are measuring the wrong number, according to technical SEO consultant Jono Alderson and data from the No Hacks podcast. The …
Iain Harper argues that the AI industry's promise of safety guarantees is mathematically unsupported, tracing the limits of rule-based systems from Kurt Gödel's 1931 incompleteness theorems through Alan Turing to contemp…
China implemented sweeping new regulations this week to curb human emotional dependence on AI chatbots, motivated by fears that virtual companions are worsening the nation's declining birthrates by discouraging real-worl…
Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI leader Mira Murati, released its first AI model, Inkling, with 975 billion parameters including 41 billion active parameters, positioning it as a customizable, open-…
China has begun enforcing new regulations banning technology companies from offering AI or virtual partners to minors, part of a wider clampdown on chatbot relationships that has cut millions of users off from their digi…
Stanford researchers have developed an AI chatbot called Noora that helps autistic adults improve face-to-face conversational skills, with two studies published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders showin…
Andy Serkis confirmed to Variety that 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' will use AI to de-age actors, including returning stars Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, and Lee Pace. Serkis emphasized that aside from de-agi…
A developer created 'fable-mode,' a behavioral overlay skill file for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex that enforces rigorous verification and disciplined action. The skill prevents agents from treating plausi…
Generative AI coding agents are disrupting software engineering collaboration by replacing peer discussions with direct engineer-agent conversations, starving product requirements backlogs, and shifting technical design …
Seth Godin critiques an AI-generated music video by TryAI, directed by the AI tool Fable, calling it a display of pointless banality and uncanny valley awkwardness. He argues that AI fails to capture joyous human dancing…
Epoch AI tested three leading AI text detectors (Pangram, GPTZero, and Originality.ai) and found that up to 18 percent of AI-generated passages went undetected when language models mimicked an author's style. For scienti…
A protester confronted Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at a public event, accusing Amazon of enabling Israel's use of its AI technology in military operations in Gaza. The protester demanded Amazon stop providing AI services th…
OpenAI employee and former government official (name not given) admitted errors in a post about Chinese AI startup Kimi and clarified his views on open-weight AI, stating he was describing likely US policy outcomes rathe…
The Economist warns that China's open-source AI models may be a trap, as they could embed security risks or dependencies that undermine Western technological sovereignty. The article argues that such models, while seemin…
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, positioning Beijing as an alternative to US-led AI gove…
Access to AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say 'I don't know' and reduces accuracy, according to a study by researchers from French and Italian universities. In the baseline, 44% of participants admitted igno…
China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to remove personalized companion agents from their AI chatbots,…
A new benchmark called RadLE 2.0 reveals that many AI models in radiology deliver incorrect findings with full confidence, while human radiologists still outperform them. The benchmark tests whether AI can recognize when…
It is too late to make technology ethical because the focus should have been on the people who build it, not on the technology itself, argues a commentator. The author contends that ethical judgment must be cultivated in…
A summer in San Francisco reveals the Bay Area as a microcosm of a post-capitalist dystopia, where the AI-driven intelligence explosion is creating a widening schism between tech beneficiaries and those losing livelihood…