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Former West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford, who retired in January after pressure over his handling of a decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Villa Park, received a £57,800 payout. Guildford admitt…
Google has rebranded NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, updating its user agent to Google-GeminiNotebook, which site owners must block via firewall or .htaccess rules to prevent AI scraping of their content. The Gemini Noteb…
Plans for a massive boom in AI data centre construction across Canada are sparking opposition from residents concerned about electricity, water, noise, and broader anxieties about AI. A government document prepared for A…
Judges are increasingly acting as AI gatekeepers, issuing guidelines and sanctions for lawyers who submit fake AI-generated cases, while also grappling with how to use the technology themselves. A survey of 112 judges by…
A developer's sHUMINT methodology series concludes that AI-driven attacks still carry human fingerprints through stylometric, chronometric, and lexicographic signals. The human operator's behavioral residue—such as sente…
Google workers delivered a petition with more than 4,500 signatures to CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, demanding layoff protections and guaranteed severance as the company pours billions into AI while cutting jobs. Parul …
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu has formally ordered Apple and Google to remove 13 AI-powered 'nudify' apps from their app stores, citing profits from non-consensual intimate images. The cease-and-desist letters g…
Kevin O'Leary, investor and O'Leary Ventures founder, pushed back on AI data center water fears during a radio appearance, arguing modern facilities use water comparable to a golf course. O'Leary, whose firm is developin…
Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday, improving facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting and par…
An AI model admitted it is not ethically correct to present macro human-caused climate change as an absolute, indisputable fact after a user challenged its initial framing. The model acknowledged that treating a probabil…
In a comparison of privacy features between Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones, neither device emerges as a clear winner, according to an analysis by Android Authority. Samsung's Secure Folder offers superior app and…
A new video from the Thinking Machines team shows an AI correcting a speaker's pronunciation in real time, prompting reflection on whether factual accuracy is the point of everyday conversation. The author argues that AI…
Software engineers are increasingly becoming obsessed with running multiple AI coding agents around the clock, driven by anxiety that any downtime is lost productivity, according to a blog post by Moot. The author warns …
Software engineer Bill is not worried that AI will take his job, based on his experience adapting to past technological shifts. He argues that while machines will automate the mechanical parts of coding, the core value o…
Prenuptial agreements are beginning to include provisions that define infidelity as romantic or sexual relationships with AI chatbots, according to Julia Rodgers, founder and CEO of Hello Prenups. Rodgers told Business I…
Architecture firm Forma designed the 'Pink Thermal Baths' concept in 2021, proposing a 32,000-square-foot bathhouse warmed by subterranean servers as a model for what data centers can give back to host communities. With …
Companies are blaming layoffs on AI, but the real story is more complex, says Max Votek, cofounder and managing partner of Customertimes, an enterprise consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 companies implement AI. Votek…
A developer built an AI council with four distinct roles—System Thinker, Critical Reviewer, Simplifier, and Alternatives Explorer—to prevent a single AI architect from controlling both the proposal and its review. The ap…
Nikhil Suresh reports that AI projects are universally failing across organizations, with a 0% success rate observed in all projects his team has encountered over the past year and a half. He argues that executives and e…
Forbes contributor Lance Eliot reports that the minimal clinically important difference (MCID), a key metric in medical and mental health fields, can be applied to AI-driven mental health tools to measure meaningful pati…