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Australia will require large AI data centers to generate as much power as they consume and ensure creators retain control over work used to train AI, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday. The government wi…
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said artificial intelligence can become a "game changer" for the country's economy, projecting Indonesia's digital economy potential at $135 billi…
Alphabet lost nearly $200 billion in market value on July 16 after Bloomberg reported that Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model is months behind its June deadline due to weak coding results. The stock fell 4.4% in a single s…
A Hacker News user asks whether society is getting dumber, citing a relative who identified critical thinking skills as the key to success. The user points to AI reliance, online misinformation, and a tendency to accept …
A Brazilian developer argues that the global North's academic and technological establishment has built systems of gatekeeping that extract intellectual and natural resources from the Global South while erasing its contr…
AI agent frameworks like Superpowers, Matt Pocock's skills, and Agent Skills use plain English Markdown files as a behavioral control layer, which is probabilistic and ambiguous rather than deterministic like traditional…
A developer known as Alex built a shadow training pipeline inside MedTech's CI/CD system to catch unauthorized data extraction. After seven days, the trap revealed that an unattended microservice, deployed five months pr…
A Malwarebytes report published in June 2026 finds that 85% of people now say it's hard to tell scams apart from the real thing, up from 66% in 2025, and 50% have encountered an AI-driven scam. Nearly one in five adults …
Kieran Klukas argues that large language models (LLMs) are eroding critical thinking and logical reasoning skills, comparing their effect to the difference between handwritten and typed notes. He warns against outsourcin…
Security researchers at Manifold Security confirmed a trust-boundary flaw in Anthropic's Claude for Chrome extension, which reached general availability on July 1, that lets any rogue Chrome extension silently read Gmail…
A structural flaw in dermatology AI systems causes them to perform worse on darker skin, yet patients with darker skin are rarely told this before the tools are used on them, raising questions about informed consent and …
Goodfire announced a private beta of Silico, its LLM training platform, and reproduced RLFR, a method using probes as reward signals for reinforcement learning. The announcement sparked debate on Twitter about the 'Most …
A new open-source tool called Conversation Stenography lets users hide encrypted secret messages inside innocent-looking chat text generated by a local AI model, allowing private conversations through any messaging app. …
A veteran software engineer with 20 years of experience argues that AI-generated code has made the profession a joyless slog, claiming that in many organizations 100% of software engineering practice now consists of 'slo…
AI-generated knockoffs of legitimate books are flooding Apple Books and Amazon, with author Joanna Stern finding ten AI-generated ebooks mimicking her title "I Am Not A Robot" on Apple Books, priced up to $20.99, and New…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella accused major AI model providers of a double standard, saying they freely scrape public data and user interactions to train their models while using terms of service to block others from disti…
The administrator of this website has deployed go-away, a tool to block AI companies from aggressively scraping the site, citing that mass scraping causes downtime and makes resources inaccessible for everyone.
Major League Baseball is restricting iPad usage in dugouts to prevent artificial intelligence from helping with strategy decisions, effective Wednesday night when the second half of the season started. Former reliever Ad…
Asia's AI boom is driving a surge in coal consumption as data centers demand round-the-clock power that solar and wind cannot yet reliably provide, according to market research analyst Alexander Kheder of BMI. The region…
A guide to AI Product Manager interview questions has been published, covering product sense, technical fluency, evaluation and metrics, prioritization, responsible AI, and cross-functional leadership with sample answers…