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Hyundai workers have gone on strike over the introduction of humanoid robots in factories, while China is cracking down on chatbot romance, signaling growing tensions as AI encroaches on human labor and emotional connect…
A Barron's article titled 'Why Apple’s ‘Standard Oil’ Strategy Is Driving the Stock to All-Time Highs' argues that Apple's AI strategy is succeeding despite not delivering its own model, while New York Governor Kathy Hoc…
A new Corrigibility Research Fund, housed at Lightcone Infrastructure and managed by a long-time AI safety researcher, will award at least $200,000 in grants and prizes for corrigibility research in 2026, with the first …
AgentLedger, an open-source Python SDK, provides AI pipelines with structured, queryable audit trails for every consequential action, including decisions, reasoning traces, policy triggers, and human review requirements.…
Simon Willison, who coined the term 'prompt injection', warns that combining access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to exfiltrate data in a single AI agent creates a 'lethal trifecta' that…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging a pattern of misconduct involving more than 400 former Apple employees now working at OpenAI, including its chief hardware officer. The lawsuit cou…
A U.S. judge rejected a bid by 26 Meta Platforms employees to block the company from laying them off while they pursue claims that Meta's AI-powered tools targeted them for job cuts because of disabilities or medical lea…
Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets, alleging misconduct that some experts say reflects standard industry practices. The lawsuit comes as Apple ships public betas of its new software featuring the Siri AI, and as Op…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him 20 times wealthier, with his fortune potentially reaching $300 billion, while middle-class workers might only see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp c…
Forbes Councils Member Expert Panel reports that the best UI and UX principles for AI-driven digital products help users understand what the technology is doing, why, and how to interact with it, emphasizing transparency…
A new benchmark from the UK AI Security Institute's Inspect Evals finds that nine of ten frontier AI models score below a random-selection reference rate when booking travel without being prompted about animal welfare, d…
Disgraced West Midlands Police chief Craig Guildford received nearly £58,000 in leaving pay after retiring on a full pension in January, following a scandal in which he misled MPs and the public over a report that used A…
Anthropic's latest ad campaign, designed to show the company is listening to public concerns about AI, has drawn widespread criticism online, including from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who called it satire. The ad features vo…
A Nielsen Norman Group article argues that even if AI becomes capable of producing research outputs indistinguishable from human experts, human-led research remains essential because it generates learning and emotional c…
AI company executives are facing a surge in death threats and security incidents as public backlash against the technology intensifies, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A man broke into Anthropic's headquarters…
Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX and renamed SpaceXAI, is suing 67-year-old Terry Wayne Harwood of South Carolina for using its Grok chatbot to create nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children, including c…
Google has delayed the release of its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model after internal coding improvements failed to meet performance goals, risking ground lost to rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. The postponement, which slip…
Sapien, a decentralized AI data protocol, retired its legacy vault on July 17, removing all early withdrawal penalties and cooldown periods for stakers. The new ERC-4626 compliant vault on Base mainnet gives users full f…
A developer argues that AI-generated code is not a threat to engineering craftsmanship but the latest in a long line of abstractions that have always required engineers to understand the layers they work with. The post t…
Chinese President Xi Jinping compared China's AI development to a swift and steady horse, emphasizing the balance between technological innovation and regulatory oversight. Speaking at the World Artificial Intelligence C…