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A lawyer and writer reflects on the fear of obsolescence in classical music and the legal profession amid AI advancements, drawing parallels between counterphobic reactions in both fields and arguing that the core human …
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, sworn in May 22, 2026, faces a pivotal challenge as AI investment surges, arguing it will be a disinflationary force akin to the 1990s internet boom. However, some FOMC members warn …
Ben & Jerry's cofounder Ben Cohen advised young people to pursue careers based on passion rather than money, warning against becoming Uber drivers due to Waymo's autonomous vehicles. He emphasized finding a niche, aligni…
New studies suggest consciousness may exist in organisms without brains, challenging the long-held assumption that subjective experience requires a neuronal system. Philosopher Natalie Lawrence argues that brain-centrism…
Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda predicts 'crazy protests' over AI-driven job losses, saying fears about AI eliminating jobs are 'justified' and that companies, including her own, are scaling back on hiring for entry-level …
A humanoid robot kicked a child during a public martial arts demonstration in June 2026, sparking debate over liability for AI-powered robot harms. The incident highlights governance gaps as humanoid robot installations …
Z.ai's MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 model challenges OpenAI's GPT-5.5 with a 28% hallucination rate on the AA-Omniscience benchmark, three times lower than GPT-5.5's 86%, while costing 1/7th the inference price. The 753-billion-…
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX's IPO, and his vast wealth now rivals that of nation-states, enabling him to exert unprecedented political and military influence. Musk controls a major defens…
Apple's revamped Siri AI, powered by Google's Gemini, offers a highly personalized and conversational experience in its developer beta. The assistant, part of iOS 27, indexes device data for tailored recommendations and …
Bengaluru Cyber Crime Police arrested three individuals for creating and circulating AI-generated deepfake images and videos of actor Rukmini Vasanth. The accused were charged under the Information Technology Act and Bha…
MicroAGI, a German startup, is offering free home cleanings in New York City through its Shift app in exchange for first-person video footage of cleaners at work, which it uses to train and license AI and robot datasets.…
Wharton researchers Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave coined 'cognitive surrender' to describe people's tendency to defer to AI even when it's wrong, finding that participants accepted incorrect AI answers 80% of the time. The…
A man who took a DNA test to disprove his sister's claim that he was the result of an affair discovered the test confirmed her accusation, leaving him conflicted about sharing the results. In a separate letter, a woman i…
Researchers warn that relying on AI for personal decisions—from what to eat to navigating relationships—is weakening critical thinking and social skills. Users report outsourcing judgment to chatbots like Claude, while e…
A former developer draws parallels between 1990s waterfall development and modern LLM-assisted coding, arguing that detailed requirements documents remain essential for AI-generated code. The author criticizes massive LL…
In a recent Miss Manners column, a widow expressed hurt over her late husband's ex-girlfriend posting a tribute on his memorial page, and Miss Manners advised against responding publicly. Another reader complained about …
A new position paper by Yunze Xiao, Gordon Dai, Shahan Ali Memon, Jen-tse Huang, Maarten Sap, and Mona Diab argues that current AI welfare assessments are structurally disconnected from truth-tracking, labeling them as '…
The US government blocked Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 19, 2026, citing a jailbreak vulnerability. Theories suggest the move may be tied to Anthropic's upcoming IPO, regulatory capture, or competiti…
A new Stanford study on algorithmic hiring found that a single vendor's tool, pymetrics, discriminated against Black applicants in about 11% of job positions, but career coaches and commentators have exaggerated the find…
Anthropic accidentally published 512,000 lines of Claude Code's source code in March 2026, triggering a debate over copyright ownership of AI-generated code. The incident highlighted that code predominantly written by AI…