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Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against granting them pervasive access to personal data. She criticized Microsoft AI CEO…
Google DeepMind researchers audited DiffusionGemma, a text diffusion model, and found it is not significantly less transparent than Gemma in terms of variable interpretability, but algorithmic transparency is lower due t…
As millions of Americans use AI agents to file their 2026 taxes, tests show chatbots miscalculate refunds by over $2,000 on average, raising questions about liability when algorithms fail. Intuit, H&R Block, and startups…
Metaculus, The Unjournal, and Sentient Futures have launched the Animal Futures Tournament, a forecasting competition with 16 questions on animal welfare topics including corporate commitments, alternative protein regula…
A technologist has proposed updated definitions for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), emphasizing cognitive roles over tasks to better reflect real-world job complexity. The de…
HSIP, a local identity server written in Rust, launches with Ed25519 cryptographic signing and AI agent governance, offering tamper-proof audit trails for individuals, AI agents, and financial institutions. The open-sour…
Wall Street's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is colliding with regulatory and political headwinds, as governments worldwide move to impose stricter controls on AI development and deployment. The tension between m…
The Atlantic created a searchable database of four datasets containing millions of music tracks used to train AI models, including 12 million and 9 million tracks. Google and Stability AI confirmed using the datasets in …
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and current CEO of Wabi, warned that protests over AI-driven job losses are imminent, citing her own decision to stop hiring junior engineers as a sign of the trend. She told Platformer'…
A leaked list exposed members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society, sparking widespread discussion. The EU is using Anthropic's AI to rank job candidates, raising privacy and fairness concerns. Critics argue that …
A Dataiku/Harris Poll survey of 900 CEOs worldwide reveals that while AI is increasingly influencing CEO compensation, board scrutiny, and job security, most leaders admit they do not fully trust, control, or own the AI …
Refik Anadol's Dataland, the world's first AI art museum, opened in Los Angeles, using over half a billion pixels and visitor biodata to create immersive experiences that blend nature and technology. The for-profit museu…
Eurocommerce, representing Amazon, H&M, and IKEA, is lobbying for AI-generated ads to be exempt from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that an AI-generated living room image used to sell a sofa is not a deepfak…
A former Dragon Age writer warned that AI could make game development 'frustrating as hell,' questioning how the next generation of developers will be trained if entry-level tasks are eliminated.
A developer argues that human water consumption is throttling AI performance by reducing cooling capacity for data centers. The post humorously suggests that activities like long showers, crying, and filling pools divert…
Harvard Business Review warns that AI-generated low-quality work, termed 'workslop', is causing 'knowledge decay' in companies, eroding trust and costing $9 million annually in rework for a 10,000-employee firm, accordin…
Granta will no longer publish winning entries of the Commonwealth short story prize after controversy over alleged AI use in a winning story. The magazine cited editorial integrity concerns, while the Commonwealth Founda…
A developer argues that the trend toward 'disposable code' in the AI era is misguided, especially for production systems. They contend that codebases encode critical institutional knowledge and edge-case handling that re…
Companies that heavily adopted generative AI are suffering from "knowledge decay," where over-reliance on AI leads to low-quality work, eroded trust, and deteriorating organizational knowledge. The Harvard Business Revie…
A developer warns that reliance on large language models for cognitive offloading is leading to a frenzied state of multitasking and diminished quality, as users delegate more tasks to AI and fail to revise outputs. The …